Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-01
IN
CAR REROUTING
is TO BE FIXED
Uncertainty in Whether
Works Board or Council
Has Powers.
CONFERENCE PLANNED


duct an investigation preliminary to the
rerouting Of street cars in the downtown
district and the realization that hundreds
Of other matters involving the point of
who is in control will come IN as soon
as the franchises OF not ony the Street
Railway Company but other utilities are
given up under the new State law to be-
come effective when pro nulgated by
Governor Warren 7. McCray, caused the
decision to have the problem settled, Nj.
Miller said.
"We are going to take up with the
public service commission the question
Of 10 what extent they are going to
assume control over the utilities OF the
city OF Indianapolis" read a statement
which Mr. Miller dictated Heretofore
It has been the understanding that the
board Of public works has jurisdiction
over extensions, rerOuting and service
conditions. We believe there should be
no conflict Of authority in this matter
and we Will seek to have an understand
Ing"
CLAIMS COUNCIL HAS
TO AUTHORITY.
Members OF the board expressed sur
prise that the city council had been
asked by the public service commission
to participate in the re-routing scheme
since 1t has generally been understood
heretofore that the council had no power
whatever to change the routing, this
right having been given exclusively to
the board Of works by the franchise.
At the conference of the city council
with the public service commission last
Friday night Corporation Counsel Samuel
Ashby advised that after the street rail-
way company surrenders its franchise
the council, instead Of the board Of works,
viii represent the city IN dealings with
utilities.
Members OF the board Of works hold
the opinion that under the new law they
viii continue TO have original jurisdiction
over the utilities, but the service cor
poratiOns will have the added right &c
appeal TO the public service commission
in case they do not like orders issued by
the board. 1t is pointed out it would be
practically impossible for the council o,
the public service commission to take
over the duties incident TO regulation Of
service conditions now exercised by tie
board Of works, since every week there
are dozens Of minor orders Issued. such
as permits to use poles and to cut into
pavements in order to lay cables or pipes.
NEW BOARD MEMBER
TAKES SEAT.
Richard A. Shirley, new Democratic
member of the board OF public WORKS
qualified and took his chair for the first
time today. His appointment was an
nOunced by Mayor Charles ". Jewett last
week.
Following a conference with officials
OF the indianapolis Water Company the
board announced the company has laid
1924 feet Of mains this year which is
more than has been pHt in in the same
time within the past eight years. The
hos nrff
to lay 10000 feet per year.
Charles Ambrose, assistant superintend-
ent of the municipal garage. was pro-
NOTED to superintendent when the resig
nation Of Superintendent Herbert H.
WATSON was accepted. Mr.. WATSON viii
take a position with the local branch of
the Mack International Motor Company.
Ebert Gilman. a mechanic at the munich
pal garage. was promoted TO assistant
superintendent The salary of the super
intendent is $4,000 per year.
TENTH STREET SEWER
GOES BEGGING.
No bids were rereived for the East
Tenth street main sewer from twenty
feet east Of Denny street to 155 feet east
Of Hawthorne lane
Bids were received as follows:
Permanent Improvement Of Twenty
Eighth street from Illinois to Meridian
streets American Construction Company.
bituminOus concrete. So 80 per lineal foot
Mansfield Engineering Company, bitumi-
nous concrete, 1913.
Permanent improvement Of Shelby
street from Prospect street to the first
alley south of Georgia street: Union As
phalt Construction Company, asphalt
ST47 per lineal foot; American COnstruc-
ton Company, asphalt, $50; Mead Con
struction Company. asphalt, S7GO.
Permanent improvement Of Berkley
rA E-=v- H.
nue.: Mansfield Engineering Company,
asphalt, S11 per lineal foot and concrete.
5000; J. y. Morgan & Son, asphalt
$l0-S5 and bituminOus concrete, S10.45.
Permanent Improvement OF Station
street from TwentyFirst street to Mas
saehusetts avenue: American Construc-
ton Company, asphalt, 1854 per lineal
foot: Union Asphalt Construction Com
pany, bituminOus concrete. S5.65; J. n.
Morgan Son. asphalt, 1913 and btu
mtnous concrete, $3.50.
Grading of roadway and curbing in
Station street from Twenty First street
to Massachusetts, avenue: Hugh Melon
aid, Sl64 per lineal foot; J. n. Morgan &
Son, s169; Krebay Concrete and Paving
Company, S19S: Frank Lawton, S1.73.
Sidewalks, curbs and graded lawns In
Buckingham drive from Boulevard Place
to Sunset avenue: Frank Lawson, SO 80
per lineal foot; W. c. Halstead, S29S;
J. W. & w. C. Martin. 1887: Schwert
Brothers, $50 Did on walks and curbs
only
Sidewalks and graded lawns in Olney
street from a point 1851 feet north of
Roosevelt avenue on the east side and a
point 2169 feet north Of Glen drive on
the west side to Twenty Fifth street
Krebay Concrete and Paving Company
$1.75 per lineal foot; John Arnold & Co
SlS8; J. W. & W. c. Martin, S1.65; w
c. Halstead, $3.50; Schwert Brothers
$50 Ibid on sidewalks only.
Sidewalks and graded lawns on the
north side Of Forty-Third street from
Boulevard place to Sunset avenue: T. W
& W. c. Martin, Sis per HneaI foot;
Krebay Concrete and Paving Company
$3.50; Schwert Brothers, S225 (bid on
sidewalks only; John Arnold & Co
$40: Frank Lawson, $2.23; W. c. Hal
stead, S2.35.
Local sewer in Hiatt street, from the
main sewer in Miller street to a point
40 feet south, Columbia Construction
Company; S4.67 per nneal foot.
A resolution for q. local sewer in Rawls
avenue, from Audubon road TO Arlington
avenue, was confirmed over a remon-
STRANGE.
Resolutions were adopted as follows:
Vacation OF thirty five foot strip on the
Brookville road to English avenue wild
ening of Forty Fifth street, from Penn
sylvania to a point 200 feet west to con-
form TO width Of rest Of street; side
walks In Winthrop avenue. from Forty
Ninth to Fifty-First streets
A contract for sidewalks and graded
lawns in Boyd avenue. from Kelley to
ers on their bid Of S2.51 per hneal foot
total. S1.255.
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