The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-28
Mayor Moorhead Signs a Re-
vised Agreement ~ Gilman
to Get Bridge Com
pany to Sign.
SUBMIT TO ENGINEER
Active Work to be Delayed On
til Spring City Will
Be at No Elk
pense.

The revised tentative agreement
between the keokuk and Hamilton
Bridge company and the city council
vas signed by Mayor Mcorhead last
evening and Theodore Gilman, repre-
sentative Of the bridge company,
departed for New York to submit the
agreement to officials 6f his company
and to obtain their signatures which
will make the agreement formal>and
binding contract, setting forth the
terms between the two parties for the
construction Of the bridge.
AS the matter stands now the city
council Is, for the time being, through
with their end of the agreement. For
the past week the council has been
devoting practically all Of its time to
Mr. Gilman In discussing the terms of
the proposed contract and have &C.
quainted Mr.. Gilman with all the con-
ditions and requirements that will be
made OF the bridge company in the
remodeling of their structure.
Although Mr.. Gilman was not sat
Istied with everything Incorporated in
the tentative draft Of the agreement
and desired to have number of ad-
ditional matters included which the
council refused to consider, he will
endeavor to secure the signatures of
the officials OF the company to the
agreement as 1t now stands.
Before this is done, however, the
agreement will be submitted to Engi-
neer Modjeski for the bridge COM
pany, who will ascertain II the condi-
tons included are practical from an
engineering standpoint. 80
Although some work may be &C
complished towarda the rebuilding OF
the bridge this fall, 1t is not likely
that the active work can be taken
up before next spring. Mr.. Gilman
stated before leaving that six months
would be required to secure the iron
tor the structural work.
The council agreed to do what 1t
could toward securing the consent of
the war department-for rebuilding the
bridge provided the agreement just
completed Is made mutual by the sig
natures of bridge company officials.
Practically the only expense that
will be incurred by the city in this
work will be that of paving First
street from Main street to the street
that will connect 1he viaduct with
First street The work of building
this street between the end of the
viaduct and First street will be done
by the city, but at the expense of the
bridge company, and on its co nple-
ton Is to be dedicated absolutely to
the city. according to the tentative
agreement.
The tentative contract or agreement
which has just been completed fol-
lows:
This agreement made and entered
into on this - day Of -, 1914, by
and between the city Of Keokuk, Lee
county, Iowa, hereinafter called the
city," and the Keokuk & Hamilton
Bridge company. (successor to Keo-
kuk & Hamilton Mississippi Bridge
company, and the Hancock County
Bridge company, corporation or
ganized and existing under the laws
of the state Of Illinois, hereinafter
called the bridge company wit
ncsseth:
That, whereas. the said bridge COM
pany intends to construct . new sup
erstructure to replace the present one
on the piers which extend across the
Mississippi river, between the cities OF
keokuk, Iowa, and Hamilton, Illinois.
and said bridge company is DESTROYS
OF constructing said superstructure
upon plan which will provide a
highway for wagons. motor vehicles
and other vehicles. cattle, pedestrians,