Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
May 14, 1887 Saturday

Railroad Crossings

Ishpeming - At the last meeting of the common council the fol-
lowing ordinance was read. No action was taken on it, however,
until the railroad companies are heard from. Copies of the pro-
posed ordinance have been sent to Superintendent Linsley of the
Peninsula division of the C&NW and to Superintendent Watson of the

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Section 1. Every railway company operating a railway through
the city of Ishpeming shall keep one watchman at the crossings of
its road over Main street and one watchman at its crossing over
Third street in said city, constantly from 8 o'clock in the fore-
noon until 7 o'clock in the evening of each day in the year.

Section 2. Every railroad company operating a railway through
the city of Ishpeming shall keep one watchman at its crossing of
the road over Third street in said city, constantly from 8 o'clock
in the forenoon until 7 o'clock in the evening of each day in the
year from the first day of May until the 15 day of November, or
from the opening to the closing of navigation in each year.

Section 3. The watchman provided for in this ordinance shall be
supplied with a red flag which shall be displayed to give notice
to the public of the appraach to said crossing of cars, trains and
engines.

Section 4. Any two railroad companies whose lines cross the
streets hereinbefore mentioned and not more than 100 feet apart
may combine and employ one watchman at each of said crossings and
that said watchman shall guard the crossings of both roads.

Section 5. No engine, train or cars shall be caused or permit-
ted to run over any track of either of said railroads at the cross-
ing thereof of First, Main, Pine or Lake streets, at a speed exceed-
ing six miles per hour.

Section 6. No trains, cars, engine or machine shall be caused
or allowed to stand upon or obtruct travel at, or upon or across
First, Main, Pine or Lake streets, where any of such tracks cross
the same, for a longer period of five minutes under the penalties
hereinafter prescribed; for each five minutes or portion thereof,
during which said engine, train, car or machine, shall stand upon
or obstruct travel at any such crossing beyond such period of five
minutes.

Section 7. No corporation or person shall cause or permit a car
or train not attached to a locomotive, but put in motion by loco-
motive power, to be run upon or across any of said street crossings
without a brakeman on the forward car.
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Section 8. Any corporation which shall violate any of the pre-
ceeding sections shall be liable to a penalty not to exceed $100, to
be recovered in the manner provided by law.

Section 9. Any conductor, engineer, gate-tender, or other person
or persons, who shall violate any provisions of the preceeding sec-
tions shall, on conviction be subjected to a fine of not to exceed
$100 or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days.

Section 10. All ordinances and parts of ordinances conflicting
with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.

It wasn't at first intended to provide in the ordinance for a
watchman at the Third street crossing, but after investigation the
council decided that a watchman is not urgently needed at that cross-
ing at present, though it is probable that one will soon be required
there, as that part of the city is growing rapidly.

There is nothing in the ordinance to which railroad companies can
reasonably object. Flagmen are needed, and no train shall be run
over the First, Main or Pine street crossings at a speed exceeding
six miles an hour.

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