Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-01-13
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
/ City of Lancaster
Office of City Clerk, January II, 1915.
1 To the Electors of the city of Lam
| caster, Grant County, wisconsin,:
Eecto9 is is to- be Reid at nth the reguIar
polling places in the City Hall for the
| several wards in said city of Lancaster
| the purpose of submitting the follow
| ing proposed ordinance to vote OF the
electors of said city:
| Granting to the Chicago Short Line
Railway Company, it's successors and
! assigns, the right to use certain. streets
| of the City of Lancaster for the pur-
pose of constructing, maintaining ana
operating a Street and 1nterurban
| Standard Electric Railway.
| The Common Council of the City of
Lancaster do ordain as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby granted
| to the Chicago Short Line Railway
| Company, its successors and assigns
| the right, authority and permission to
| lay, construct and maintain single and
urban railway, with all necessary
| switches, curves, turn-outS, US, poles,
wires, and other necessary appliances
and convenienceS usually employed IN
the operating of a street and inter-
urban Standard Electric Railway SyS-
tenn using electric or other power eX-
/ cepting steam, over and upon, along
and across those certain streets within
the corporate limits of the City of Lam
caster, Grant county, Wisconsin, nam
i ed as follows, viz: Upon and along Ash
/ Street between Washington and Madi-
son Streets, Park Street between Ruth
and Linden Streets, Linden Street from
i Park to Fillmore Street, and upon and
! along Maple Street west of Pierce
Street; and over and across Adams and
Madison Streets north of Ash Street,
Jefferson Street at or near Ash Street
i Washington Street north of the Chica-
go & North Western Railway track,
Ruth Street between Washington and
i Park Streets, Pearl and Lucy Streets
on Park Street, Harrison, Tyler, Polk
and Taylor Streets on Linden Street,
den Streets, Pierce Street, north of Elm
Street, Elm and Hickory Streets west
of Pierce Street, and to oper-
Standard Railway System, with cleo
trio or other power, excepting steam,
for the carrying of passengers, bag
for the transmitting of electric light,
heat and power. but not SO as to OBJ
! struct the common public travel upon
and across said streets.
Section 2. All rights, license and au-
thority herein granted are subject to
all general provisions of law apple
able thereto, and to the following con-
ditionS, subject to which this consent
and permit is granted and accepted:
\. The said railway shall be con-
Structed in a good substantial manner
and upon the most approved plans for
the construction of such roads and the
road bed shall at all times conform TO
the established grade of the respective
streets. and shall be so laid and main
tanned that carriages and other We
| hicleS can easily and freely cross the
track at any and all parts without OBJ
StructiOn to travel on the streets. and
said Chicago Short Line Railway Com
pany, its successors and assigns shall
keep the space between the rails and
for a distance of Two 90 feet outside
the line of said rails in proper repair
not TO unnecessarily interfere
with travel upon the same, and shall
keep the same in as good condition as
hn Cd i.sR fV,1r rnfo
conform thereto, and wherever said
streets or any part thereof, are now
or whenever they may IN the future be,
macadamized or paved, said Company
its successors and assigns. shall ma
cadamlze or pave said space between
and outside its said tracks with the
same material, and in the same man
ner, as the rest OF the street, and at
all crossings where the streets have
not heretofore been macadamiZed shall,
at its own expense put in and main
tain suitable approaches of macadam,
or such other proper material as the
City shall then use for like purposes,
which shall have driving width
of at least sixteen feet and extend
back at least ten (10) feet from the
I rails on each side Of its track and
said Company, its successors and as
/ signs, shall promptly repair all dam
ages done to said streets or macadam-
lzlng thereon caused by the construc-
ton and operation or management of
] its said railway
=. The said Company, it's success
sors and assigns, shall also, at all
times, keep and hold the City of Lam
Il caster harmless as against any and
all damages, judgments, costs and eX-
penses resulting in any manner from
+, the granting of this ordinance.
! Section g. The City of Lancaster re-
serves the right to change the grade of
any streets upon or across which said
railway track shall be laid and shall
not be liable to said Company there
. Tor, and in case the Common Council
] Of said city shall at any time change
tn "A IT oh "a
railway track shall be laid, said Com
pany, It's successors or assigns, shall,
within a reasonable time relay the
/ track of said railway SO as to conform
to said grade at their own expense.
| Section 4. This ordinance shall take
| effect and be in force from and after
| its passage and publication, and from
its acceptance by said Company, its
successors or assigns, provided written
notice of the acceptance thereof be
filed with the clerk of this City within
thirty 900 days after its passage
The above proposed ordinance was
filed with the clerk of said City on the
10th day of December, 1914 and was
accompanied by petition, certified by
said clerk on the 18th day of Decem-
Der, 1914, to be signed by electors of
said City exceeding IN number twenty
five per cent of all the votes cast for
governor in such city at the last gen
eral election, and containing request
that said proposed ordinance be sub
mitted TO vote of the electors of said
city if not passed by the city council;
That at a regular meeting of said
city Council duly held January 9TH,
1915 motion was made and passed
by said city Council referring said pro-
posed ordinance TO a vote of the cleo
tors of said city al a special election
| to be held for that purpose and the
| City Clerk and City Attorney were
authorized to prepare and the City
Clerk give proper notices of such
Special Election, so that the same
might be held within the time and as
| provided by law.
| The voters are further informed that
/ there will be printed upon the ballot
submitting said proposed ordinance to
| the people the words Yes" and NO"
| and to the right of such words there
will be a square. Each elector voting
in favor of said proposed ordinance
| shall make a cross or other mark in
the square adjacent to the word
/ Yes" and each elector voting against
said proposed ordinance shall make