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BOARD OP TRUSTEES

[ D e c e m b e r 9,

November 17, 1919 Mr. George M. Mattis, Treasurer, Urban a and Champaign Railway, Gas, and Electric Company, Champaign, Illinois

DEAR M R . MATTIS :

Professor White informs me that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds of of the Board of Trustees of the University have agreed to your request to lay a passing track parellel with your present track and west of it on Mathews Avenue between the corner of the Chemistry Building and the turn at Oregon Street. The conditions under which this permission is granted are those under which the agreement of December 8, 1908, permitting your company to cross the campus with its present track was made, that is, all specifications and requirements on the part of the University contained in said agreement, will apply to this passing track also. Will you kindly let me know whether the company accepts permission to lay this additional piece of track on these terms? Although not contained in the original agreement, I request for the University that you issue orders to your conductors and motormen to cross the campus at less speed than they do now and to ring the call bells only when absolutely necessary. We have been disturbed a good deal with bell ringing and there has been an increase in the danger because of the carelessness of your men in running across the campus too fast. This danger has been added to, of course, by the increased number of students. Yours very truly,

DAVID KINLEY

Acting President November 17, 1919 President David Kinley, University of Illinois

DEAR PRESIDENT KINLEY:

I have received your letter of November 17 relative to the construction of the passing track on the University grounds between California and Oregon Streets. We will construct this passing track in accordance with your letter of the 17th and with the agreement of December 8, 1908. We will also publish an order to the street car men to cross the University grounds with less speed and greater care and to avoid ringing of their bells just as much as possible. Yours very truly,

GEORGE M. MATTIS

{Treasurer) Urbana and Champaign Railway, Gas and Electric Company AGREEMENT THIS INDENTURE, entered into this 17th day of November, 1919, between the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereinafter called the University, and the Urbana and Champaign Railway, Gas and Electric Company, hereinafter called the Company, WITNESSETH, 1. That in consideration of the agreement of the Company herein contained the University grants to the Company permission to construct, maintain and operate an additional track on the campus of the University, west of and parellel with the present track of the Company along Mathews Avenue from its curve near the southeast corner of the Chemistry Building to its curve at Oregon Street for a distance not exceeding two hundred and twenty-three (223) feet from switch point to switch point, the maximum distance between the two tracks to be twelve (12) feet from center to center.