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To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Fort Worth.
Your petitioner would respectfully represent that the condition of the streets to-wit East Front St. and Boaz St. passing under the two Railroad viaducts, is very bad and has been for a long length of time. That the same are the natural passageway to the city of a very large bodies of people in the Third, Fifth and Seventh Wards and from Glenwood, and that no improvements in the streets can be done for the same amount of money which will do as much good and cause as much satisfaction as will the putting of the said streets in proper condition to stand the travel.
It will be necessary, first, to provide for the flowage of the water off the Texas & Pacific reservation. Second, for the paving or gravelling of the said streets.
Therefore your petitioner prays that the City Engineer by instructed to at once report to this Council an estimate of the cost of properly providing for the said water so that it will not run into said streets and for paving the said streets with brick and for gravelling the said streets in first class shape, and that the said report of the said City Engineer together with this resolution be taken under advisement by the Ways and Means Commit tee of the City Council and reported on to the next meeting of the Council.
M.M. Lydon Alderman of the Fifth Ward.
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JOHN B. HAWLEY, CONSULTING ENGINEER, MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY CIVIL ENGINEERS. CITY ENGINEER, FORT WORTH,
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS May 2nd 1902. 190
Hon, the Mayor & City Council. City.
Gentlemen:-
AT non yesterday Mr J.D.Tramell,Chief Engineer International & Great Northern Railway, requested a conference, to be held at 3:00 P.M., same date, on street crossings at Bessie ,Stella and Elizabeth or Willie streets, in the Union Depot Add'n.
"I met Mr Trammell at the hour named, and after considerable discusion, stated to him that the following conditions would be satisfactory to this department, providing of course that your approval was forthcoming.
1. No grade crossings. 2. Bessie Street to be so bridged with steel girders as to leave full width of roadway and sidewalks, a total of 60 ft, and 14ft headroom. 3. Stella Street to be so bridged with steel girders as to leave a total widthfor roadway and sidewalks of 40 ft and 12 ft headroom.
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JOHN B. HAWLEY, CONSULTING ENGINEER, MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY CIVIL ENGINEERS. CITY ENGINEER, FORT WORTH,
FORT WORTH, TEXAS ____________ 190___
4. Elizabth, )or Willie) Street to be so bridged with steel girders,as to leave a total width of 32 ft for roadway and sidewalks, and at least 10 ft headroom.
5. That, upon approval of these conditions by your honorable body, and their acceptance by the Railway Company, temporary wooden trestles might be constructed at each opening by the Railway to be replaced by
a foresaid steelwork at earliest practicable date.
Awaiting your pleasure, I am,
Very Respectfully,
John B Hawley City Engineer.
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