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Sec. 140. Numbering and naming streets.

The streets of the City shall retain their present names until
changed by the Council.

Main Street shall be the east and west line from which streets
shall be named. Those to the north of Main Street, as north,
and those to the south of Main Street, as south, i.e. the portion
of First Street north of Main Street shall be known as North
First Street, and that portion south of Main Street shall be
known as South First Street.

The meridian street shall be North First or South First
Street, as indicated by its position north or south of Main Street.
(First Street was known many years ago as Thirty-Third or
Green Street).

Whether one goes east or west, the streets running so as to
intersect Main, actually or by supposed extension shall be known
by the natural numbers increasing in either direction from the
meridian at First Street, save in the matter of Park and Ridge
Streets. For example the first street east of First Street shall
be known as North Second Street, East, or South Second Street
East, according to whether it is north or south of Main Street.