Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-02-26

works outright or cooperate, if pos
sibIe, with Mr.. Hopper, the owner
of our present works. He demon
strated, without any doubt, that his
firm could furnish gas to the city of
GAINESVILLE and her private citizens
much cheaper than the price they
were now paying.
The matter was thoroughly dis
cussed by the board, and all seemed
heartily in favor of the proposed
new works. Alderman Faxon said
he had been connected with the pre-
vious board, and they had made
repeated endeavors to get Mr.. Hop
per to make some fair contract with
the city to light the streets, but as
yet without success, aud that he did
not think he would ever do any
thing until he saw a disposition on
the part of the city to fina other
means of lighting her streets and
furnishing gas to her citizens at
reasonable rates. He said ne did
not believe the old company would
ever do anything, or that the matter
would ever be be brought properly
before the citizens of the city, unless
some definite action was taken, and
he would therefore move the adop-
ton of the following ordinance upon
its first reading:
Be it ordained by the board of
mayor and common council of the
city of GAINESVILLE, That Chess, Car
ley q Co., their associates and as
signs, be and are hereby granted
the privilege of using the streets,
alleys and public grounds of the
city of GAINESVILLE for the purpose
of laying down pipe for the convey
ance of gas to the public lamps, and
inhabitants of said city, provided
they shall replace the same in as
good condition as they found them,
and shall extend said gas mains SO
as to supply a majority of the inhab-
itants of said town, and in future
make such additional extensions as
the growth of the city demands,
provided the consumption of gas on
such needed extensions shall justify
a profit of six per cent. on the in
vestment.
Second-The said Chess, Carley
& Co. are to erect on their line of
mains as soon as laid, sixty public
lamps, and such number in future
as the board may order, and furnish
gas for the same of an illuminating
power equal to IA candles, which
lamps are to be lighted by the cor
pOratiOn of GAINESVILLE six hours
each night, except moonlight nights,
for the period of ten years, for which
the city of GAINESVILLE hereby agrees
to pay monthly at the rate of $18
per lamp per year.
Third-All acts or parts of acts
conflicting with this act are hereby
repealed.
After some careful discussion of
the meaning of this ordinance, it
was voted upon and adopted by the
board on its first reading, Mr.. r.. d.
M,seley voting in the negative.
Alderman Moseley said he was
heartily in favor of new and cheaper
gas-works, and of having our streets
lighted at night, but that he did not
think they ought to go into this
important matter too hastily, and
especially until they could see
where the money was coming from
to pay for the gas. 1t ought to be
here remarked that the passing of
the above ordinance on its first read
ing is merely to get the matter
under way, and is of no validity as
contract with Messrs. Chess, Car
ley & Co. unless passed upon its sec
ond reading.
We hope the citizens of our town
will investigate the terms upon
which this gas company proposes to
erect works here and furnish lights
to our streets-investigate the mat
ter thoroughly, and give an express
sion of their opinions.
AS far as we have seen, we think
it is a good move and ought to be
encouraged.
Arson and Robbery Near Green
brier.
As the editor of this paper was
returning from Nashville last Mop
day afternoon, he noticed a cOnsid-
cradle crowd of excited men gath
cred at Greenbrier, small station
on the st. Louis & Southeastern r.
r., in Robertson county. Upon in
| quiry the cause of the excitement
was found to be a most daring and
bold robbery and arson perpetrated
by two men named Joseph Pike
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