The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-06
LEGAL NOTICE.
Proposed Ordinance. Mo. 20.
AN ORDINANCE

~ertaln street Frtvtie9eS TO the LOUIS
vie & Nashville Railroad Company.
Be Il Ordained ny the Mayor and Council
o. the City OF Pensacola:
Section I. That the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company, corporation,
Its SUCCESSORS and assigns, is hereby
granted the privilege Of constructing and
maintaining railroad tracks, sidfngs and
connections. over and across and upon
street between JIayne street and the east
line Of Aleaniz street, and on Wright
street between Ninth Avenue and Fiji
teenth Avenue; across A1caniz street be-
acr0ss Ceyallos street, Ninth Avenue,
Tenth Avenue, Eleventh Avenue, Twelfth
Ayenue, Thirteenth Avenue. Fourteenth
Avenue, Fifteenth Avenue, Sixteenth Ave-
nue., Sixteenth Avenue and Seventeenth
Avenue, between Wright and Heinberg
streets. across Heinberg street betweeA
Tenth Avenue to a point between Helm
berg and Gregory streets; on Heinberg
street between Tenth and Eleventh Ave
nues; said tracks being indicated by
solid white lines on a plat hereto at
tached as part hereof.
Section .. That Wright street between
Tenth and Fourteenth Avenues, and
Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Ave-
nues between Belmont street and Heinz
berg street, and Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Ayenues between Wright street and
Henberg street. are hereby declared
closed; and It shall be unlawful for any
person to use said portions of said streets
for traffic not connected with the opera
tion OF said railroad company. The
streets between Wright street and Bel
mont street, and between Tenth and
Fourteenth Avenues, shall remain closed;
and the rights herein granted shall exist
rs TO them only so long as the grantee
shall continue to occupy the space north
Of Wright street, between Tenth and
Fourteeuth Avenues, with IFS round
buildings. The city retains the right
which vt now has as to said portions of
streets TO lay therein and maintain
water. gas. sewerage and drainage pipes,
erect and maintain therein telephone,
telegraph and other electric poles and
wires for municipal purposes, which II
that before the portions of Fifteenth
Avenue and Sixteenth Avenue, herein.
mentioned, shall be closed, said grantee.
own cost and expense, construct q via
duct, and all the foundations and walls
necessary, for a subway, or sub-grade
crossing, which shall extend underneath
and to the outer lines of said company s.
tracks and roadbed at the western end of
its Bayou Texar trestle, and the. center
line of which shall be at a point one hum
dred and twenty-four (l24 feet east of
the western line Of Seventeenth Avenue
extended. or twenty-six hundred and
seventy-four (2674) feet east of the mile
post at said eompany's shops, and which
shall be a public way and form part Of
any public street which may be connected
Herewith. Said viaduct shall have q
clear width Of twenty-five (25) feet; and,
overhead, the lowest point of the lowest
member Of said viaduct shall be not less
tlaH I4.5 feet above mean tide: and said
grantee, its successors and assigns, shall
tnfreafter maintain said viaduet and all
the foundations and walls necessary for
said crossing.
section 3. That the tracks of the said
railroad in all of the aforementioned
streets NOT closed shall be laid and MAIN
tained upon the grade designated there
Tor by the city authorities, except that
where no grade therefor shall have been
established by the city authorities prior
1.-the construction of the said roadbed,
said grantee, its successors and assigns,
shall have the right to conform as nearly
as practicable to the natural grade of the
land. but In all cases the railroad Led and
tracks shall be made to conform to- the
grade from time to time thereafter eS-
tablished therefor by the city authors
Section l. That the said grantee, its
successors and assigns, shall keep and
I 70. on Wright street. between
Avenue, Heinberg street and Fourteenth
|tAFenue. and any other street or por-
ltion Of street, crossed or trayersed
Any any Of its tracks, between its said
tracks, and for eighteen (1Sl inches on
either side thereof. in the same condi-
ton as the city shall keep, or require to
be kept. the same streets adjacent to the
parts occupied by the said tracks, and
shall construct and maintain all necessary
lntersecting street eros sings over said
roadbed and tracks, and whenever the
or the said streets snail improve. grade
or pave any street or part of street upon
which said grantee its successors or as
signs, shall construct their said tracks,
or any part thereof the said grantee, its
successors and assigns, shall, at the same
time, or upon notice given by the proper
city authorities, improve, grade or pave
the space between their rails and tracks
and for eighteen (1S) inches on each side
thereof in the same manner and with
the same material as is used in improv-
Ing. grading, or paving the remainder of
said street adjacent to the said rails and
tracks, and shall maintain the same in
good order and condition to the salts
faction of the proper city authorities, in
accordance with the terms of the Charter
or Ordinances Of the City of Pensacola:
and whenever any of the tracks con-
ordinance shall be constructed along or
across any street or streets, or parts
thereof, that are at the time Of such cone
struetiop paved, said grantee shall; under
the citys contract for such street paving,
at It's own expense relay and repair the
paving in the space between the rails and
,for at least eighteen s11S) inches on either
side thereof, ana SO much thereof as may
be damaged or disturbed in the prosecu-
ton of the work herein authorized, so as
to conform to the established grade,
making the needed repairs with like
material used in said paving, and shall
construct the necessary storm water in
let's and drains and connect to the storm
water sewer, all to the satisfaction of
the Board of Public Works.
Section 5. The work of constructing
the roadbed and laying tracks permitted
under this ordinance, shall be so done
by the grantee that the travel on not
more than one street perpendicular TO
Wright street shah be INSTRUCTED or inn
peded at any one time, and the work
Of repairing, resurfacing and repaving
the streets, or portions of streets, dis
turbed by said railroad. shall be done
under the supervision and direction OF the
Board of Public Works
Section 5. That all the streets herein
mentioned, crossed or occupied by the
tracks OF said railroad company, shall be
guarded by watchmen, or protected by
gates, as the Council may by resolution
determine TO be necessary for the public
safety.
Section Z At every point where the
railroad tracks of said company cross any
street, or avenue, herein mentioned,
which is now, or shall be hereafter
paved, said company shall erect and
maintain, as the Council may by resolJ-
ton determine. one arc light equal to the
General Electric Series sc amperes alter
mating current enclosed arc lamps, con-
Stunning not less than 400 watts at the arc
Section S. That the city shall have the
authority 70 require the grantee, at any