South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-19
BRIDGE CONTRACT
WILL Be AWARDED
County Commissioners Decide
TO Go Ahead With Structure
Despite RemOnStranCe.

demonstration against the pro-
posed new bridge over the ST. Jo-
seph river ON Joseph ST. iu Mish-
awake. lost their Tight before the
county commissioner Monday when
that body returned % verdict against
them and ordered that the bridge be
put through Bids viii be adver-
tised for az once. An appropriation
OF $50. 600 was made for the struc-
ture last fall by the county council.
The entire morning was spent by
the county commissioners i'm hearing
arugment for and against the build
ing OF new bridge over the st
Joseph river on Joseph ST. IN Mish-
awake Atty Dan Pyle presented
the case Of the demonstrations, while
Atty Bingham represented the
Mishawaka delegation seeking the
bridge.
Bridge Not Needed.
Atty Pyle commended that the
bridge is not necessity when the
entire county Is taken into consider
alton lie claimed that it was more
of a scheme 10y real estate dealers
in the vicinity 20 improve property
valuations than a desire TO relieve
congestion He showed photographs
To- the commissioners indicating that
there are no houses TO speak 20 i'm
the vicinity Of the proposed bridge.
and no congestion % be relieved. Ac-
cording TO figures of two Mishawaka
manufacturers who spoke Atty.
pyle said ne estimated that about as
men were disconnected 10y the lack
of bridge az the present time.
He said az the present time South
Bend has one bridge 20 every $4,000
people while if the new bridge is
built m Mishawaka that city will
have "a bridge 90 about every 1000.
Atty. j. r. Bingham i'm his argu-
ment for bridge. established the
Grounds that the bridge is needed 10
provide for more rapid deliveries.
for "a link i'm boulevard system. and
90 get better fire protection for the
city. lie also claimed that the re-
moustrances misrepresented the
facts and that the bridge is not a
real estate scheme lie held that
figures by Atty Pyle that the bridge
would cost $4,000 We're exagger-
ated and that the cost would not eN-
coed the appropriation of $4,000
made by the county council last fall.
Roads should Come First.
In rebuttal Atty. Pyle maintained
tUat the 200 siguers TO the remon-
STRANGE were not secured under mis-
representation and that the names
were obtained i'm the city as well as
as u the rural districts. lie did not
see the necessity of taxing the rural
community for "a bridge i'm Alisha-
1vaka when the money could be EN-
p1oycd 90 better advantage i'm build
ing roads in the country He esti-
mated that about "a miles of good
road could Doe built with the money.
~ l.. Williams OF the Gillette
Motors Co.. W. o.. Topper of the
ctty board of works and Fred Ran
kert. former member OF the COM
missioners. also spoke in favor of
The bridge Topper said that by Sc
curing the bridge water main
could Doc run from the east side to
the north side and afford better fire
protection 90 the north Williams
spoke eff the need OF a bridge TO
enable men 20 get To the factories
without going by round about way
Eaukert believed that it was too late
ro present D. TemOn~trauCc at this
time
The commissioners adjourned at
noon and announced they would re-
turn a verdict in the afternoon