South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-02-27
BOARD WILL NOT
EXTEND STREET
Proposed to Open William St.
North is Dropped After
Long Agitation.

After years of agitation. after
the presentation Of more than
dozen petitions. circumstances and
signed opinions favoring or object
ing 10 the improvement after appar-
cnt failure and seeming success, af-
ter planning and proposing and agi-
tating and soliciting. the much de-
sired. much opposed opening Of Will
liam St. is finally lost in the board
Of public works.
At the meeting Tuesday morning.
the board again took up the matter
Of the openig of the street near the
center of the long strip Of property
separating Colfax av. and Lincoln
way w. 1t was learned by con-
sulting with the city controller. that
owing TO the fact that Inuch paving
and improving is TO be. done this
year, here is very little money
available for the pushing of this inn
provement. The board decided that
il would not undertake the opening
of the street without standing good
for a portion of the cost itself. Con-
sequently the proposal was declared
lost.
Objected to Assessments.
For many years the resident in
this portion Of the city, particularly
those residing west and north Of the
closed portion. have found the sep
arating strip of land a great incOn-
venience and have prayed that it be
opened up to the public. All went
well, except for a few DIRECTORS,
until the preparation Of the assess
ment roll of benefits. Dissatisfaction
and unwillinsness to pay "a small
amount for the benefit that will ac-
crue from the opening of the street,
caused the plan TO be again post
poned. The board finally decided
that in order 20 secure the improve
ment it would be forced to pay a
portion of the cost itself. Mr.. Jude
was given permission to proceed
with the construction of a garage
at the site of the planned road,
which permit practically forbids the
making Of the change for many
years to come.
Resolutions for the paving of many
streets. the first of the spring work
to be undertaken by the board, were
passed. and il was ordered that
hearings should be set on the pro-
pOsals for some near date. A large
number of the resolutions are the
foutgrowth of petitions presented
during the past year which were
postponed TO a more opportune time.
Streets TO BE Paved.
Following are the paving resolu-
tions:
Calvert ST.. from Miami to High st.
Frances St, from Cedar st. to
North side blvd.
Broadway. from Carroll st. to
High st.
franklin av., from Indiana av. to
Calvert st.
Fuerbringer St, from Cottage
Grove av. to Sherman av.
The first alley west of Lafayette
St, from Monroe to South ST
The first alley south of Jefferson
blvd, from Laurel st. TO Chapel
/ lane.
The first alley west of Michigan
/ ST.. from Madison ST. to Marion ST.
Two sewers. one on Ostemo from
1 Iroquois TO Lafayette St, and the
other on Dayton ST. from Leer st. to
/ Clyde st. were requested by petitions
and resolutions. Hearings will be
set on these as we'll as on a resolu-
ton for the condemnation of some
property in order TO widen Leer st.
I across the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway company's right
of way within the next month.
Lumber Bids Received.
Lumber bids were received by the
I board and opened, but owing to a
I lack of time 10 consider the specih-
cations more closely, the final grant
/ ing of the contract was postponed
until next Tuesday A petition was
/ also received from some residents Of
! +. Lasalle av.. +. COlfav av., and
T y. limerick St. asking that certain
public utilities companies be order
ed TO remove telephone poles from
/ the streets east of the river in con
/ formity to the city ordinances in
/ the matter.
\ petition for a pipe sewer on
/ Olive ST. from washington av. to
! Linden av. was referred 10 the city
engineer as was a petition signed
I by III. < Cover and \. c. Jain ask
ing for the grading of Chippewan
av.
This latter Improvement is made
. impossible by existing legislation
that may be repealed i'm a law pre-
scented at the request of the admin
istration permitting cities of this
class TO grade streets without paving
I them.