Council Proceedings: June 16, 1905

FORT WORTH, TEXAS. May 11th 1905

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Ft Worth Tx

We the undersigned being property owners and residents on S. Main, Galveston and St. Louis Ave beg to submit to your honorable body the attached diagram and respectfully call attention to the following facts:-

1st. That part of Goldsmiths addition between S Main and St Louis Ave being North of Laurel St rests against the South line of the City's grounds thereby causing Galveston Ave as well as the 2 alleys through the respective blocks to terminate in dead ends against the city enclosure.

2nd. In consequence hereof the alleys are practically useless since no wagon can turn in them, while our homes on Galveston Ave are inaccessible to us except by a long circuitous route south of them.

Now therefore, in view of the solid front of improvements that have been erected on both sides of said street, and the great inconvenience and hardships we are residents are subjected to by reason of being denial a direct access to our homes or the use of our alleys we respectfully petition your Honorable body, to open at least a 35 or 40 ft roadway in the South line of the City's grounds, from Main Street to St. Louis Ave.

Edward T. Duff WWHeggard WB Martel R.R. Turberille W.H. Fitch F.A. Howell W.N. Bowers H.E. Valentine B. A. Hilliard J.H.Foster R.E. McDonald G.C. Streen J.W.[Mcf?] AB Steen Lee Clark James LAuder WJ Gammill C W Brock FL Gammill Sam G Frazee Jas. S. McYown O.L. Jones W.O. Harris

J.M. Tramel T.D. Ingham A Arneson

City's Property

map of S. Main and St. Louis Ave.

Petition Eng Rpt

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FILED JUN 2 1905 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y

JOHN B. HAWLEY, CONSULTING ENGINEER, MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY CIVIL ENGINEERS. MEMBER ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH. MEMBER TEXAS ASSOCIATION CIVIL ENGINEERS. CITY ENGINEER, FORT WORTH.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, June 16th 1905

Hon. The Mayor and City Council, City.

Gentlemen:

we, your St. & Alley Committee, to whom was referred the attached petition of Edmund T. Duff, J.M. Trammell et al, asking City to give off a street from south side of City Hospital Grounds on SOuth Main St. near St. Josephs Infirmary, have the honor to report:

That we find parties now claiming the property, as against the City, and recommend that the matter be laid on the table until such claim, or any litigation that might result from same, be finally settled.

Respectfully,

Waggoman & Zurn, of Committee.

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[map of Ft. Worth]

FILED JUN 16 1905 Jno T. Montgomery City Sec'y

FORM 54

IN REPLY REFER TO NO. 138.

THE SOUTHWESTERN TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CO.

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT

Ft. Worth, Tex., June 7, 1905.

Hon. Jno. T. Montgomery,

City.

Dear Sir:-

I beg to acknowledge receipt of yours of June 5th notifying me of my appointment as Director of the Carnegie Library. I take pleasure in accepting the honor confered.

Yours Truly, JF Henderson

Supt.