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Electrical construction.

Eighth street,
Winnebago street.

fourteenth and fifteenth lines of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Railway by the use of electric power," as approved in section 5 thereof.

Section 3. Section 5 of said ordinance is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The cars and carriages to be used on the track or tracks of said railway shall be operated by means of power produced by electricity, conducted upon wire suspended over and above the said tracks along the streets hereinbefore designated by the method known as the "overhead system," and said Milwaukee Cable Railway Company is hereby authorized and empowered to erect and maintain the necessary plants, machinery and power houses upon private property owned or controlled by the company, for the purpose of generating said electric power, and said company is also authorized to erect and maintain in or along the streets hereinbefore designated, and across or along the Milwaukee river, such poles, wires and cables for the purpose of conducting the power to be used as aforesaid. The poles to carry the wires of said electric railway shall be constructed of iron, in a neat, ornamental manner, and shall always be kept neatly painted by said company and set inside the curb line, and shall not be set at a less distance than one pole in every 125 feet, except at intersections of streets, and the wires shall be conducted not less than 18 feet above the surface of the street. Should said company use in connection with said system any supplemental or feeder wires, such supplemental or feeder wires shall be laid underground. All wires used to conduct electric current shall be constructed with a return parallel metallic circuit, and all work hereby authorized shall be done to the satisfaction of the board of public works.

Section 4. Section 8 of said ordinance is hereby amended by inserting after the words "Sixth street" where they occur the second time in said section, the words "Eighth street, Winnebago street."

Section 5. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply in full force and effect to the provisions of said ordinance so amended, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Passed September 11, 1889.

107-AN ORDINANCE

Granting certain rights to the Milwaukee Cable Railway
Company.

The mayor and common council of the city of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby given and granted to the Winnebago street. Milwaukee Cable Railway Company, its successors and assigns, the right, permission and authority to lay a double track for a street railway, with all the necessary and convenient tracks, side-tracks and turn-outs, in and along Winnebago street, from the intersection of Eighth street to the intersection of Eleventh and Vliet street, and to keep, maintain, use and operate thereon railway cars and carriages in the manner and upon the conditions heretofore prescribed in the ordinance granting to the said Milwaukee Cable Railway Company the rights to maintain and operate a street railway in the city of Milwaukee, and subject to all of the conditions, restrictions and limitations of said ordinance, and for and during the term named in said ordinance.

Passed October 14, 1889.

90-AN ORDINANCE

To amend an ordinance entitled "An ordinance to authorize the construction and operation of a certain street railway in the city of Milwaukee," passed December 19, 1881, as amended by an ordinance passed June 1, 1888, as amended by an ordinance amending an ordinance, passed June 1, 1888, entitled "An ordinance amending an ordinance granting certain rights to the Milwaukee Cable Railway Company, passed December 29, 1887." The mayor and common council of the city of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Franchises re

Section 1. So much of the ordinance referred to in the title hereof as permits and authorizes the Milwaukee pealed. Cable Railway Company, its successors and assigns, to lay a cable track for a street railway on Wells street, from West Water street to Sixth street; thence north on Sixth street to Cedar street, and also authorizing said Milwaukee Cable Railway Company, its successors and

assigns, to lay a cable track for a street railway from the intersection of Sixth and Wells streets west to Eighth street, thence northerly on Eighth street to Cedar street, together with the franchises and privileges therein conferred, is hereby repealed.

Passed July 8, 1895.

XIX.-WHITEFISH BAY RAILWAY CO.

Grant to Mil. & W.
B. R'y Co.

Farwell avenue,
North avenue,
Bradford street,
Glen avenue.

AN ORDINANCE

To authorize the construction and operation of a tramway or street railway on certain streets in the city of Milwaukee.

The mayor and common council of the city of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby given and granted to the Milwaukee & Whitefish Bay Railway Company, a corporation created and existing by and under the laws of the state of Wisconsin, its successors or assigns, permission and authority to lay a single or double track for a tramway or street railway in and along the center of the following streets in the city of Milwaukee, to-wit: Commencing at the intersection of Farwell avenue and North avenue, thence northeasterly to Bradford street, thence east on Bradford street to Glen avenue, thence north on Glen avenue to the city limits. And the said railway to keep, maintain and use and to operate thereon railway cars and carriages to be propelled by animal power only upon Farwell avenue and Bradford street, and by steam motors or Power to be used. Power by animal power or the power of electricity or magnetism, or any one or all of them, as will best subserve the interests and purposes of the company upon that part of its line as hereinabove set forth, lying north of the intersection of Bradford street and Glen avenue.

Tracks, how laid.

Section 2. The tracks of the said company shall be of the gauge of not more than four feet eight and one-half inches, and shall not be elevated above the surface of the street, shall be laid with modern improved rails, and shall be so laid that carriages and other vehicles can easily and

freely cross said streets at any and all points and in any

and all directions without obstruction, and the said com

pany shall at all times keep in good repair the roadway Repair of roadway. between the rails and one foot on the outside of each out

side rail, and all of the space in the center of the roadway

between the tracks as laid on the above described route.

Section 3. Before any car or carriage shall be used or License fee. operated on said railway said company shall pay to said city a license fee of ten dollars per annum for each car or carriage; said license fee to be paid and a license for such car or carriage to be obtained in the same manner as regulated by ordinance respecting hacks, in said city, and any officer, conductor, driver or agent, of said company, its successors or assigns, who shall operate or cause to be driven or operated upon said line of railway any car or carriage, unless the same shall first have been duly licensed as herein provided, shall be punished by a fine not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.

Section 4. Said railway company shall charge no more Only one fare to be than one fare for each person riding on the cars northward charged. to or southward from Burleigh street.

Section 5. The common council shall have the right to Amendment or amend, modify, repeal or annul the rights and powers repeal. granted by this ordinance or any of them at any time and prescribe other rules as it may deem proper.

Section 6. The said company, its successors or assigns, shall indemnify and save harmless the city of Milwaukee against all loss or damage which it may incur or become liable to pay, by reason of the power herein granted or by reason of the malfeasance or nonfeasance of the said company, its successors or assigns.

Section 7. The powers and rights herein granted are limited to the full term of thirty years, from June 1, 1886. Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Passed June 14, 1886.

94 AN ORDINANCE

To authorize the Milwaukee & Whitefish Bay Railway
Company to extend its lines of railway.

The mayor and common council of the city of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Indemnity.

Term of franchise.

Grant to M. & W.
B. Ry. Co.

Section 1. There is hereby given and granted to the Milwaukee & Whitefish Bay Railway Company, a corporation created and existing under the laws of the state of Wisconsin, and to its successors and assigns, the right, privilege and authority to lay, construct and maintain a double track for a street railway, with all necessary and convenient tracks and turn-outs, side-tracks, connections, switches and turn-tables, in, upon and along the streets and bridge in the city of Milwaukee named in the next following sections of this ordinance, and to keep, maintain and use and operate thereon railway cars or carriages Power to be used. Propelled only by animal power, or by the power of electricity applied by the underground or storage battery system, upon the conditions heretofore prescribed in the eriginal ordinance granted to said railway company the right to maintain and operate a street railway in said city of Milwaukee, and subject to the conditions and restrictions hereinafter mentioned, for and during the term of Term of franchise. twenty-five years from the date of the passage and publication of this ordinance.

North avenue, Weil

Section 2. The said Milwaukee & Whitefish Bay Railway Company aforesaid, and its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to lay, maintain and use a double track with connections, tracks, side-tracks, turn-outs, switches, turn-tables and turn-table excavations for such railways in, upon and along the course of the following streets and bridge of the said city of Milwaukee, to-wit: Commencing at the southern terminus of the line heretofore granted to said company, to-wit, at the intersection of North avenue and Farwell avenue, in the Eighteenth ward street. Lee street, of the city of Milwaukee, and extending thence west on and along said North avenue in the Thirteenth ward of said city, and on and along said avenue west to its intersection with Weil street in said Thirteenth ward, thence north on and along said Weil street to its intersection with Lee street, thence west on and along Lee street to its intersection with Booth street, thence south on and along said Booth street to its intersection with North avenue, and thence west on and along said North avenue to the western limits of the said city.

Booth street.

Tracks, how laid.

Section 3. The tracks of said railway shall be of the uniform gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches, and shall not be elevated above the surface of the streets or bridge, and shall be of the same elevation as the grade or

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