Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-03
Of the number of nights the lamps were
lit only up to 12 o'clock. midnight


featuring gas sufficient for the supply of
the whole city. We have no accurate
data OF the number Of street lamps Unlit
IN September. the company asking our
indulgence Tor "a week or ten days. y
the time, 1t was said, the alterations, Ne.
at the works would require but it is safe
to say that fully one-third of the street
lamps we've not lit for more than One-haif
of the month.
October 4th, at request OF the gas COM
pany, all the lamps We're extinsuished at
midnight, and We continued to put them
out at this hour until November 30th.
when the company informed us we could
allow those that were lighted to burn ali
night. But it must be remembered that
from October 4th to November 30th not
more than one-half of the street lamps
We're lit at all. From November 30sh till
January 1st, the end of the quarter, about
one-half Of the street lamps only were
burning.
From the first to the middle of January
complaints became so general from all
parts of the city that ordered 4 nightly
report to be made by tho policemen OF the
nine wards of the city. The first three
nights showed respectively that there were
1G4, Is, and 139 lamps unlit out OF the
Whole number OF 3l3. These three nights
were no worse than from Noyember Both
on to the time the reports were ordered to
be made, and ought 70 serve As al eqrita-
blc basis OF settlement with the company.
Very Respectfully,
JNO. +. MACGOSIoLE,
Mayor.
Mr. McMullen briefly explained that
when the bill of the gas company for the
past quarter had come before the finance
approved by the lamp
the finance committee
hcsitatcd about adding its approval i'll
view of the fact that the city had been SO
long deprived of its gas supply, and so the
determined to refer the bill for
final disposition to councils.
Mr.. Cox moved that the bill be approved
as read, which motion was agreed to with
= number OF dissenting voices, though Z
division was not called for.
Mr.. Franklin, after the bill had been
arose and asked the indulgence
of council in few remarks he proposed
to make in justification of the gas COM
pany. From figures which he quoted from
Il slip ofpaper he held in his hand, lie un-
tlertoo!l to demonstrate that the city OF
Lancaster is, under its agreement with the
present gas company, obtainn. It's gas at
Il vast reduction upon former rates that
where the city is HOW supplied with the
material III Il cost OF slS per
post per annurn. under the arrangement
in force prior to the establishment OF this
the cost was 4l03 per post per
year. AS Mr. Franklin finished his re-
,,ly, H. Il L..
Mr.. McMul!en said that as council hGd
heard the case of the gas company stated
he might be permitted, to speak Il word on
the side Of the city. We have an agree
lnent with the gas company /" furnish
light ut 4 fixed price, with the understand
ing that the street lamps are to be lit
every night in the year, and decent quail
itysof light furnished. This the gas com
pany has failed to do. Suppose it be
true that the city was swindlcd when
the Old gas company had {. monopoly, We
expected to GET rid of the imposition, when
a competition was introduced ard as ior
the statement that the city. formerly pail
for gas at the rate of $t03 per post annual!
~, it preposterouS.
IN abstract OF the minutes of the water
committee was presented by Mr.. Brown
and read.
Mr. McMullcn presented the report OF
City Treasurer Shirl., showing receipts OF
50, COS. .21; payments. sl,539.23 balance
in treas'iry, si,iGG.92.
Shipper Street Bridge.
The following communication ircn the
mayor, accompanied by letter Of Supcrin-
icn'ient Loc'iart, WAS presented and read,
~ al. r, rri,1n..pI t,ri ify.. -
hiDised:
MAYoE's OFFICE, Lancaster, Feb. =, SSl.
70 The Uonorulye The Scleci ana Co,nmoa COM
cHs V the CITY Of Lancaster:
GENTLEMEN-IIaving learned uEoiiic
!lly that the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany contemplated the renewal OF the
bridge over the railroad on Shipper
street, | addressed the following letter to
VIM. +. Locl.ard. esq, superintendent
,f the Eastern division Pennsylvania rail
road:
''DEAE s;Ii; have been informed that
It is the intention of the Pennsylvania
railroad company to rebuild tho Shippcn
street bridge, in This city, ct an early
lay; that it l.; to be rebuilt of wood, and
of the same Dimensions and pattern as the
Did one now in use. At the solicitation of
many Of our citizens interested in the to-
jacco warehouses in the immediate nei h
Dorhood who give to your company .
arge trade in the movement Of their to-
bacco, and of oiiier citizens Interested in
in the improvement of the city
mi thc convenience of the people,
would most respectfully ask ynu that you
reconsider Your intention and give US :.
Dri'l@c at the crossing referred to some.
H., l,,f-
bridge. 1t is very important in the first
place that the bridge be the full width OF
Inc street, with tOOtways, SO that pedes-
rians may be free from danger whcn
cams OF any description are on the
bridge. The bridge is now only 50 feet
vide
THE street being only so feet wide from
lonse to house, Oh either side of the bridge
$ laid down in the city chart, the bridge
you'd cost much less than the Lime
trect bridge, where the street is 81 feet !
vide.
. The very many heavy tobacco teams,
nd others from the Penn iron works and |
rom Best's boiler works. make it very inn
ortant that the bridge should be excep-
onally strong.
Il should be very glad if you would CON
der the matter f.yorably. 1t will be
1nsiiercd recognition OF the part o!
oursclf and those with whom you act in
icse matters Of the liberal trade our people
lrown into the hands of your company.
6 Your Office here alone last year sold
IS, ,sG1 tickets to passengers.
every respectfully yours
On Friday tho 23th ult. Mr.. Lockard,
'perintendent of Eastern division PR. Il
I'd Messrs. Phillips and Wilson, en-
necrs, came to Lancaster, and in com.
my with members of councils, the street
mm!ttcc. street commissioner, and NY
If, visited the site of the proposed bridge.
raw ings were exhibited, one with all the
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