Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-27

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 It's
street railway between the former
southern boundary line of the city
1 Eighteenth avenue at Eleventh
street, and the former northern
| boundary of the former village of
Sears, NOW part of the city, by
virtue of a grant by resolution 10
it's predecessor, Tri-City Railway
company of Iowa, duly passed by
the board of supervisors Of Rock
Island county, Illinois, and entered
of it's records March 7th, 1901, and
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
company Of Illinois, now possesses,
uses, maintains and operates it's
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, 1903, 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 a grant to
its predecessor, Tri-City Railway
company of Iowa, by ordinance of
the city. duly passed April q, 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 OF
Illinois, is now within and a part OF
the City, and
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
Company of Illinois now maintains
and operates its said street rail-
ways and tracks in that part of the
City lying between it's said former
Southern boundary in Eighteenth
avenue at Eleventh street and For
ty-fourth avenue, largely over its
own private ground and right 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 ]. Aikens subdivision of
the middle one-third of the North
One-half of Section Two, Township
IT n. r. 2 West of the 4th P M,
a distance of about Seventeen Hun
dred and Sixty G760) 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 2Sth 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
and be part of its said proposed
street, as it opens, lays out, wild
ems. alters or improves the same,
Now, therefore be it ordained by
the Council of the City of Rock
Island, State of Illinois:
SECTION l.
That in consideration of the ac-
ceptance of this ordinance by said
Tri-City Railway Company of Illi-
nois and its undertaking to perform
the conditions hereinafter required
of it to be performed, said Tri-City
Railway Company of Illinois, is
hereby granted the right, privilege
and franchise, for the period OF
Twenty 600 years. from the final
approval of this ordinance. to use,
maintain and operate a single Oh
double track electric street rail-
way, with all necessary switches,
cross-overs and turn outs, together
with the necessary overhead con-
struction for the operation of the
same by electricity within the City. |
on the route and routes usually
known as. and called MILAN Line"
and Watch Tower Line now
used, maintained and operated by
said Company as afore said, from
the former Southern boundary of
the City in Eighteenth avenue at
Eleventh street. Southwark along
the route of said MILAN Line TO the