Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-29
LET THERE BE LIGHT"
The City Council Award the Contract
for Lighting the City to the Brush
ELECTRIC Ifcht and PorUer ComnanY.

The City Council Award the Contract
for Lighting the City to the Brush
Electric Light and Power Company.
The Council met at Exchange Long
Room at s O'Clock yesterday evening, pur-
suant to the resolution adopted at the adj
journed meeting held ON Wednesday even
ing last, to take action on the subject of
lighting the streets of the city the coming
year.
At the adjourned meeting of Council on
Wednesday last, it win be remembered,
two bids for lighting the city were sub
mitted-one from the Savannah Gas Light
Company, and one from the Brush Elec-
trio Light and Power Company of Sayan-
nah-and a resolution was offered to the
effect that the bid of the Brush Electric
Light and Power Company be accepted.
A resolution, offered by Alderman Free
man, referred the final consideration of
the matter to the committee of the whole,
and the subject was accordingly consld-
cred.
There were present His Honor, Mayor
Wheaton presiding, and Aldermen Ham,
iltOn. Roberts, Guerard, Byck, Abrams,
Schwarz. Freeman, Doyle, Aylsworth and
Hardwick
The committee of the whole, through
their Chairman, reported the following
resolution as the result Of their delibera-
ton:
RESOLUTION.
ResOlred, That the contract for lighting
the city be awarded to the Brush Electric
Light and Power Company, of Savannah,
for the period of three years, upon the
terms proposed by them, the contract to
be drawn to provide that the payment Of
81, 800 per month shall not begin until the
lighting of said city by the electric light IS
perfected in accordance with its contract:
and provided further. that the said COM
pany shall enter into a bond in
the sum of $4,000 to faithfully
carry out its contract and to
efficiently and effectually light said city
in accordance with the bid of said CON-
pany for said contract, and that the actual
cost of lighting the city until the sys-
TEN be perfected shall be paid for by the
city, said company procuring the lighting
of said city on terms not to exceed the
present contract for lighting said city.
Bond to be approved by the Finance Com
mittee.
The resolution being put before Coun-
ell the vote taken resulted in its adoption,
there being but one negative vote, and no
call for the ayes and noes.
THE CONTRACT.
The following is a copy of the contract
as accepted by the vote of Council:
OFFICE BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT
AND POWER COMPANY,
SAVANNAH. GA, Dec. 81, 1927
Hon. Mayor and Aldermen Of the city Of
SdUdnndb:
GENTLEAIEN-Th Brush Electric Light
and Power Company of Savannah propose
to light the streets of Savannah, in ac-
rO adN
ing every night in the year from sunset
until broad daylight, excepting nights of
full moon, and one night preceding and
one night succeeding full moon, and in
the event either of those nights shall be
cloudy in the evening or any time during
the night, we will light on those nights
also-for the sum of $4,000 per annum,
payable in monthly installments of$2l, 800
each.
Our plan will be to place towers or
masts in various portions of the city and
place thereon two or more of our 1000 can
die power lamps so as to cover the entire
city.
In order to light the city upon the plan
we propose will necessitate large outlay
of capital in erecting towers or masts and
purchasing additional machinery, etc.
We therefore base our proposal upon
contract of three or five years.
We propose to light the VhOte city by
placing the towers and masts in such posi-
tiOns as to light all portions, TO furnish
light equal at least to the moon in its
third quarter, furnishing everything neces-
sary during the contract without expense
to the city.
This system of street lighting is in use
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, and, in fact,
in nearly all the principal cities i'll the
United States. We incl0se herewith
sworn testimony of city officials and prom
inent citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, where
the Brush electric light by the tower sys-
TEN has been in use for several years past,
to which we would beg to refer you.
We would particularly call your atten-
ton to the following facts:
First. The superiority of the electric
light for street lighting over all other
lights,
Second. That we propose to light the
whole city, thereby furnishing light to
portions of the city that has never hereto
fore been lighted.
Third. That we pay all expenses of
starting and maintaining the system.
Should your honorable body wish to
confine the street lighting to the present
area we are prepared to make much
lower proposal. Unexpected to have had
a tower erected before this so as to show
your honorable body the great superiority
of this light Tor street ngntlhg, out
we regret to say it is barely
possible for us to have it erected before
the present contract expires: We believe,
however, that the fact that the lights have
been i'm use for several months on our
streets, and in our stores, together
with the abundance of testimony in
our possession from the highest author
ity in this country, viii be sufficient
to convince the most skeptical, but
should your honorable body have any
doubts and feel that tits but an experiment,
we would respectfully request you to de-
fer awarding the contract for few days,
until we get the tower erected and de
monstrate the facts as given above.
Should you award us the contract it
will require about thirty days to start our
system, during which time we can arrange
so as to continue the present lighting.
Asking favorable consideration of our
proposal. we remain, very respectfully,
F. f. GILMORE, Superintendent
There being no further business Council
adjourned.
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