Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-14
ORDINANCES

from Fifty sixth street to Fifty-seventh street
now located to sS4srSsn s,r street %
ninth street, as now located. from oxford
t tons oS 70 .e5 S9ium6is % avenue except such p0r-
lines OF new streets hereinafter authorized.
sre.ts p'o aP9n the CITY Plan ne following
Se fss, sd,sh ,rem q point about tour hundred 4vOl
syer,s. Ses south 81 WSodbne avenue 70 Lancaster
rom Moodblne avenue 70 Malvern avenue.
Upland Way, eighty 800 feet wide. from Mai
Nern avenue to fifty-fourth street; Fifty-
seventh street eighty lsOl feet wide. from
w SP5iana , way as nereinbefore proposed to be
ilshy sI,s ,SO) feet wide. rom Nassau street to
pa avenue, Fifty-ninth street and Lancaster
avenue a new street seventy (IO) feet wide.
over yo ne tracks and properly OF the pennsyl-
lore proposed intersection Of fifty-ninth street
Hna ,ne lancaster avenue TO the hereinbefore pros
Wide, from Fitty;sixth street to iity.Seventh
wide, from Berks street to Upland way; Mont
kk99mgery gone, avenue, seventy t5ol feet wide. from
Tif!y,fogrth street to eighty rs" tsS feet. "iSD SSd
revise the grade from Jeiferson street to Up
under authority Of this ordnance, Up- ID
ian ,hnd Way Way 70 seventy Co) feet. and revise
and Maven avenue; TO widen h1fty-nnth
street stS TO eighty go feet and revise ihs grade
street street To revise the grades OF Lancaster ave.
MY o fee. %s.t about % hTes hShsts .ss, apS 20
Sixtieth street: Malvern avenue, from Ian.
second. from Woodbine avenue TO a point
about four hundred 400 feet south Of Wood
Wsy 70 point about i've sI hundred S and Stpy iitpy
SooOl feet east of Upland Way Fffty-ninth
sSSTs sHsSas yS% G LiSn .sss
20 Fifty ninth street; Fitty-seventh street.
rom Lancaster avenue to JEFFERSON street. Co
nmbia snb,iia avenue from Lancaster avenue to
tmrd street TO Ftfty-fourth street; Nassau
ninth srcSt Oxford stTee from s'fS
street 20 slxtieth street; F1fty-sixth street
HS nor to Of the s.rs ss .se.t n
berks street, from F1fty-sixth street TO q
street, Pesf nG'I9 and sss such Sa Shsr
reyisions in the lines and grades OF streets.
territory bounded BY City avenue on the north,
Flfty.fourth street on the east, Lansdowno
west as may be necessary 20 complete the City
Section. 4. The location and grade OF the
said branch or Improved line shail be sub
stsntially as shown upon plan and profile
effect or confer any authority upon the said
railTosd n1n company shan be agproyed by the
Company and the proper OFFICIALS OF the City
and hled in the Department OF Public Works
hle are hereby substituted for the plan and
Rr0s ,aPPrt9SE.d and nisd gT,rsuSRSt ,S to Section
supplements and amendA
Section 5. The PennsyIvanla Railroad Com
the following conditions
First. To equip and operate electrically the
the proposed branch or improved line Of rail
at Cobbs Creek.
Second. That. inasmuch as II is claimed by
the railroad company that tho electrical opera
tion OF a classification freight yard OF the type
proposed Is at the present time in more or less
OF an experimental stage, II will not place in
Street snd MavE SSenus TS
four years after the date Of the approval OF
this this amendatory anne and supplementary ordinance.
part thereof is>placed in operation the question
Of the motive power TO be used therein shall
be submitted TO a board consisting of three
members. one member of said board to be the
Honorable Edwin S. Stuart. one to be chosen
two so chosen. Vacancies II any, in said
board. shall he filled from time to time by
the parties originally selecting them. except
chat In the case of the office provided herein
TO be filled by the Honorable Edwin s. Stuart,
the City from a list OF hvo names presented
to him by the Overlook Club and the Over
brook Association. The decision Of the board,
or majority OF them, shall be made in the
nght OF Information and experience then
Public Service Commission OF the Common
wealth OF Pennsylvania, shall he binding and
the board shall not operate as a waiver OF any
rights OF said City or said railroad company
yard.
lho company Will make necessary
and reasonable experiments and demonstra-
tions In said yard OF systems OF motive power
cislon
Third. After the passage Of this ordinance.
no steam locomotive shall be stored or
parked, and no roundhouse or railroad coaiing
plant or repair shop shall be constructed west
OF Fifty-fourth street to- City avenue and
along along the the proposed branch or improved line
Section g.. Before this ordinance shall be-
some con 81 eneetve or confer any authority upon
before the Board Of Surveyors may CONFIRM
any of the revisons or changes of streets and
Railroad Company. which has duly entered
into an agreement to comply with the condi-
nance TO which this is an amendment, shall
enter into supplemental agreement sat
ply with the conditions contained in said
Section Six (6) amended and supplemented
by Section One "a Of this ordinance and with
conditions contained in Section Five (5) OF this
ordinance. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany shall also agree not TO claim any dam
ages for the opening, grading or changing OF
grade OF any street or road now open or upon
the City Plan placed upon the City Plan
under authority OF this ordinance. or OF the
ordinance to which this is amendatory, upon
or across any property owned or controlled by
II within the territory covered by the above re-
cited ordinanee, as amended by this ordinance
and having hled Its bond In the OF two
hundred and nifty thousand $3.50, ,OOO) dollars
duly executed under its corporate seal, in a
form satisfactory TO the City Solicitor as pro-
vided in the ordinance to which this IA an
amendment, shall file an amended bond in the
sum Of two hundred and fifty thousand $780,
oO0l dollars, duly executed under its corporate
seal, in a form satisfactory 10 the City Solic-
itor, in lieu OF and substitution for the said
bond heretofore fled conditioned 10 indemnify
the City against any and all damages which
may arise by reason OF the construction of the
said branch or improved line and the conse-
quent changes OF lines and grades OF any
street or road now legally or physically OPEN
opened under authority Of this ordinance
and also TO faithfully comply with the condi-
uons requirements and provisions OF the said
ordinance approved the twenty-third day of
November, 1908, herein amended and sup
plemented and shall pay into the City Treasury
the sum OF fifty 500 dollars for printing this
amendatory and supplementary ordinance.
Section 7. II is hereby understood and
agreed that neither the purpose nor intent. nor
the obligation OF this contract, II and when
approved by the Public Service Commission Of
the Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania, is such
as 20 impair or In any wise affect the exercise
by said commission OF any OF the powers
vested in Il by the Public Service Company
law approved July 20. 1918.
Approved the Eighth day OF July. A. D. 1915.
RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG,
No. 1920, Mayor OF Philadelphia.
AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE CTH-
tain tracts OF land IN the TWenty-hrst Ward
for extension OF Fairmount Park
Section ]. The Select and Common Councils