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Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v12n11)
Old Town of Broad Ripple Meeting Minutes #159
posted: May 29, 2015

The Town of Broad Ripple was incorporated in 1894, and started holding regular meetings at that time. In each issue, I will print my transcription of the old Town of Broad Ripple meeting minutes. These are taken from the original, hand-written minutes that contain many spelling errors. I have transcribed all the records as they were entered, including errors. I will make some corrections to the text in brackets [ ]. The original minutes books are at the Indiana State Archives at 6440 E. 30th St.

Here is the one-hundred fifty-ninth installment:
From 1903, a supplemental ordinance for the traction company ordinance.

SECTION 2.
In consideration of the grants made by this ordinance, said Indianapolis Northern Traction Company, its successors and assigns, shall, in case it acquire the lines herein before referred to of the Broad Ripple Traction Company, or in the event that the Broad Ripple Traction Company cease to furnish its present passenger service and commutation tickets to residents of Broad Ripple to some central point in the City of Indianapolis as follows, to wit: --
Each day of the year at least one car shall leave some central point on Shelby Street [now Broad Ripple Avenue] in said town for Indianapolis between 6:00 and 6:15 o'clock in the morning, and be followed by at least two cars, leaving such point between 6:15 and 9:00 o'clock in the morning, and at least one car shall leave some central point in the City of Indianapolis for the Town of Broad Ripple at 4:00 o'clock in the after noon of each day, and be followed by at least two cars between that hour and 7:00 o'clock in the evening.
The two cars following such morning and afternoon cars shall be scheduled by the grantee, its successors and assigns, as it may determine to before the joint convenience of the patrons of the line and of the grantee, its successors and assigns, in the operation of said line.
During the months of May, June, July, August and September, an hourly service each way between such points on Shelby Street in said town of Broad Ripple and the City of Indianapolis from 6:00 in the morning to 8:00 o'clock at nights, shall be maintained, such service to be inclusive of the three or more cars each way, above provided for.
The grantee, its successors and assigns, will sell to residents of the Town of Broad Ripple and persons residing along Grantees lines between the south corporate limits of the Town of Broad Ripple and the north corporate line of the City of Indianapolis, commutation tickets, at the prices and upon the conditions following to wit-
Such tickets shall be sold only first, second, third, fourth and fifth days of each month, and shall be sold in books or packets of twenty tickets, at the price of one and one half dollars ($1.50) for such twenty tickets, and shall be sold only at some one point in in said town of Broad Ripple, unless said Grantee, its successors and assigns, otherwise determine. Ten of such tickets shall be good for ten continuous rides from any point on the lines of Grantee, south of the north corporate line of Broad Ripple to which Grantee's city service cars shall run to some central point in the City of Indianapolis, and ten of such tickets shall be good for ten continuous rides from some central point in the City of Indianapolis to any point on the lines of the Grantee, its successors and assigns south of the north corporate line of Broad Ripple to which Grantee's city service cars shall run. Such tickets shall be non-transferrable, but there of; shall be good until used and shall be good only on the city service cars of the grantee, its successors and assigns, operating between said town and said City of Indianapolis, but shall not be good upon the interurban cars of the grantee, its successors and assigns, passing through said town. Said tickets shall not entitle the purchaser to transfer within the City of Indianapolis. The commutation rate hereby fixed shall be in lieu of all license, franchise, or special taxes of said town.

SECTION 3.
If said Indianapolis Northern Traction company, its successors and assigns, shall acquire the lines of the Broad Ripple Traction Company, as herein before provided, it may maintain and operate the same upon the same part of the street upon which the Broad Ripple Traction Company now maintains and operates the same, and may extend any unconnected double track or tracks on the same line on which the unconnected part or parts are now constructed, so as to make a continuous double track, or said grantee, its successors and assigns, may reconstruct and maintain the same as the part of the streets provided for by the original ordinance to which this is supplemental.

SECTION 4.
The grantee, its successors and assigns, shall, on signal, stop its local interurban cars passing through said town to take on or let off passengers, at or near the intersection of the grantee's main line with North Street and at or near the intersection of Light Avenue and Shelby Street, and at or near a point on Light Avenue one thousand feet south of the intersection of Light Avenue and Shelby Street. This provision shall not apply to the "Limited" or through cars of the grantee, its successors and assigns.



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