The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-09
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proposition.
y; y, ERVAY, Chairman.
NJ, ID, DARLINGTON,
Hon, Mayor and Board Of Aldermen, CITY o
| Dallas;
We, the Water Works company
agree TO furnish the city OF Dallas with
the forty hydrants now set for tho sum
OF sixty dollars each per annum, and
further agree to set ten more hydrants
within twelve months, three of said
hydranta to be set on the ppea now
laid, and ten more hydrants TO be sci
within eighteen months, making a
total Of sixty hydrants. Ana the com
pany reserve the right to set the
twenty additional Mt any time within
twelve months, and when the extra
twenty hydranls are set the price for
the entire sixty shall be reduced to
fifty dollars each per annum. Said
MIGRANTS are not to exceed four hun
dred feet apart, or an average of four
hundred feet when the pipes are lnyed,
Said MIGRANTS are to be located by the
city council and ut such time without
delay as the Water company give no.
tice Of their readiness to do the same,
and in addition to the above the Water
Works company agree to furnish the
city with water for the city hall, hos.
ptsl engine houses, oalaboose, fire els.
terms and one drinking fountain, the
city to agree to abide by the rules and
regulations of the Water COMPANY AZ
other consumers. Said city to have
the right to change the location Of the
MIGRANTS at any time Mt the expense of
the city. Said contract to be In full
force and effect for term of five years
from the expiration of the old contract.
Water rents to be paid monthly in
United States currency.
W. Z. CONNOR, President.
We, the Water company further
agree to set ten hydrants within twelve
months, or all within eighteen months
and In case the Water Works COM
pany rail to set the entire twenty by.
drants the company will not claim any
additional pay for over the ten hy-
drants obligated to be set within the
twelve months.
VIC. COMMON, Pre- sident.
The Water supply company subst'-
lutte two hydrants instead of three to
be laid on old pipe, one of which Is to
he located at the engine house In East
Dallas. Said compa nyto extend their
pipes to that point for that purpose.
The other hydrants to be located by
The city council.
NJ. ULLMANN, Acting Plesiaent.
Alderman Newsom moved that the
eport of the committee be adopted.
Alderman Caldwell said he did not
understand the proposition and would
lot vote.
Alderman Newsom said that the
natter had been made as plain as 1t
ould be, and that as member of the
ommittee he would say they had done
III that they could in the matter.
Alderman McEntyre moved to am.
nd the proposition, so as to read that
he setting Of the hydrants should not
g more than five hundred feet apart.
Alderman Holland thought that an
verage OF four hundred feet was suffi.
ent. He thought they should be gov
med by the number of buildings on
he street on which the pipes should
Q laid.
Alderman Ervay said that they had
D power to amend the Water Works
'mpany's proposition.
Alderman Holland offered resolu,
Oh that the report of the committee
adopted, provided the company s
,ree that the hydrants shall not ex- \
ed the distance of five hundred feet, {
i'd may be placed five hundred feet I
art when 80 directed by the council. t,
MIR. Ullmann, acting president OF the o
alter Works company, spoke by g.
lrtesy and said that he would take D
. responsibility of compromising at Al
lr hundred and fifty feet. N
alderman Darlington offered as subs a
tute to Alderman Hollands resolu, al