Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-25
Notice.

tOnpdflg Oh lliluDlss ludL II mas inns
18th day of May, 1918. filed in the
office of the city clerk of the city
of Rock Island, Illinois, its petition
to the mayor and council of said
city, for the passage of an ordi-
nance, said petition and ordinance
being in words and figures as fol-
lows, viz:
ITO the Honorable Mayor and Coun-
Gil of the City of Rock Island.
Illinois:
The undersigned. Tri-City Rail-
way Company of Illinois, hereby re-
spectfully petitions your Honorable
body to pass an ordinance, of which
the attached Exhibit A is a true
copy.
In witness whereof said Tri-City
Railway Company, of Illinois, has
caused its name to be signed by its
Vice President and its seal to be
affixed hereto. by its Secretary, this
18th day of May, A. d. 1918.
TRI-CITY RAILWAY COMPANY,
BY J. G. Huntoon.
It's Vice President.
Attest: H. E. Weeks.
(SEAL) It's Secretary.
."EXHIBIT A"
An ordinance granting to the
Tri-City Railway Company, of Illi-
nois, its successors and assigns, the
right to possess, use, enjoy and
maintain, for a period of Twenty
COO years, a single or double track
electric street railway, on the
route and routes now possessed
and used by said Company for its
street railways and tracks, from
the former Southern boundary line
of the City in Eighteenth dS)
avenue at Eleventh (11) street,
Southerly along said Company's
MILAN Line" to the City's present
Southern boundary line, and East
erly along its Watch Tower Line"
to the terminus thereof; said pres
ent routes and lines of said Com
pany, usually being known as and
called MILAN Line" and Watch
Tower Line" of said company:
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
company of Illinois, now possesses,
uses, maintains and operates its
street railway between the former
southern boundary line of the city
l. Eighteenth avenue at Eleventh
street, and the former northern
boundary of the former village of
Sears, (now a part of the city, by
virtue of a grant by resolution TO
its predecessor, Tri-City Railway
company of Iowa, duly passed by
the board of supervisors of Rock
Island county. Illinois, and entered
of its records March 7th, 1901. and
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
company of illinois, now possesses,
uses, maintains and operates its
street railways in and through that
part of the city formerly embraced
and included in the village OF
Sears. by virtue of a grant to its
predecessor, Tri-City Railway
company of Iowa by said village,
by ordinance duly passed and ap-
proved, Aug. Sd, 1908, and
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
company of Illinois now possesses,
uses, maintains and operates in the
city its system of street railways to
which the street railways men
toned above, are connected and
form a part, by virtue of grant to
it's predecessor. Tri-City Railway
company of Iowa, by ordinance of
the city, duly passed April 81. 1910.
and approved May 2, 1910, and
Whereas, the territory formerly
constituting said fromer village of
Sears, and between said former
Village of Sears and the former
Southern boundary of the City in
Eighteenth avenue, at Eleventh
street, on and along the said street
railway routes and lines there OF
said Tri-City Railway Company or
Illinois, is now within and a part OF
the City, and
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
Company of Illinois now maintains
and operates it's said street rail-
ways and tracks in that part of the
City lying between its said former
Southern boundary in Eighteenth
avenue at Eleventh street and For
ty-fourth avenue. largely over its
own private ground and tight of
way, and
Whereas, the City desires and in
tends from time to time, and as
soon as may be, to open, lay out,
widen, alter and improve a street
as a continuation of said Eleventh
street, southwark from Eighteenth
avenue at said Eleventh street to
Forty-fourth avenue, along the
said lines there of said Tri-City
Railway Company of Illinois. and
to embrace and include in said pro-
posed street, said ground and pri-
vate right of way there OF said
Company, and to that end the City
on the Eleventh day of June, 1917,
duly passed an ordinance for the
opening and laying out of that por-
ton of such proposed street, ex-
tending from the South curb line
Of Eighteenth avenue at said Elev-
enth street South TO the South line
of Sarah J. Aikens subdivision Of
the middle one-third of the North
one-half of Section Two, Township
IT \. r. 2 West of the 4th p. M.
a distance of about Seventeen Hun
bred and Sixty Q760) feet, by spe-
cial assessment and the condemna-
ton by eminent domain of the nee
essary land therefor, including said
Company's private right of way
there, and on the 28th day of June,
1917, duly filed its petition in the
County Court of Rock Island CoUn-
ty, Illinois, for such improvement
as provided by said ordinance, by
special assessment and condemna-
ton. and
Whereas, it is the desire OF the
City to acquire from said Tri-City
Railway Company of Illinois, its
said ground and private right of
way between the former Southern
boundary line of the City in Eigh-
teenth avenue at Eleventh street
and Forty-fourth avenue, to become