Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-12
CITY COUNCIL.
DoiDgs Of Our City Legislators Yesterday
Afternoon.


The city council met few minute
before o'clock. Alderman Andrew
in the chair. Present, Alexander
Hughes. Askew, Flanagan, Aldrldg
and Feiid.
Secretary Harrison read an ordi
nance for the protection of lives ant
property OF the city OF Fort Worth
II provides for hitchlng OF mule
aud horses to good iron post
OF weight not less thar
thirty pounds. No mule, horse, o.
other animal shall be permitted TO bs
hitched to the awniBg.post or lamp
post. The penalty Is fixed at IS TO ~
for each oflense. The rules were sus
pended and the ordinance passed.
The following was read: Resolved
that the owners or agents Of the pow.
der magazines now occupying the
school grounds of the city he compelled
10 move the same. Referred to pub
lie building committee with power Il
act.
Mayor Smith entered and took bi,
seat.
A petition from the Overland Tele
graph aud Telephone company wa
presented. IL reads as follows:
| To the Honorable Mayor and City Council
men OF the city OF Fort worth, Texas.
Gentlemen: Your petitioners herein
citizens of Fort Worth and Dallas
respectively, Ia behalf of the Texas
Overland Telephone and Telegraph
company, located ut Fort Worth, and
now organizing and incorporating
under the laws OF said state, with u
capital stock OF $6O0,000, respect
fully petition your honorable body
for the right Of way and license To
erect and maintain telephone and
telegraph poles and wires. with the
necessary privileges, appurtenances
and appliances thereuntO belonging,
within the said city of Fort Worth,
Texas. The primary purpose of this
petition II tn obtain the right OF way
over and through the streets OF said
city for the erection OF poles aud wires
TO operate the Baxter telephone and
improvements thereon now owned
and controlled by the Overland Tele-
phone and Telegraph company of New
York city, and ITS various sub and
state organizations by which said
telephone Is being introduced into all
parts Of the United States.
The Baxter telephone used by said
companies Is peculiarly adapted to
long distance use by reason Of an i'm
proved structure by which the current
IL utilized by the make and brake
principle heretofore peculiar to tele-
graph instruments alone, and by
which the whole force of the battery
Is thrown into the line, whereby any
amount of battery power may be used
necessary To long distances, thereby
overcoming the induction resistance
that has heretofore made telcphoning
impracticable over distances exceeding
one hundred and fifty miles at most.
Your petitioners would further state
that II is the plan and design of the
Overland Telephone and Telegraph
company, and its various state and
other organizations, acting In conjunc-
ton, To bring all parts Of the United
States Into vocal communication with
each other, thereby substituting the
telephone for the telegraph.
That the Overland Telephone and
Telegraph company and its various
sub'organizatiOns are the only compa-
MES In the United States doing bust
ness In active competition with the
American Bell Telephone company
and its various sub-organlzalions and
the various telegraph companies.
That It's legal standing and charac-
ter, after long and successful litigation
with the American BELL Telephone
company, Is u sufficient recJmnenda-
ton TO the public and guarantee
against loss or delays in the use of It's
Instruments by inffingements aud re-
straining suits.
That the laid Texas Overland Tele-
phone and Telegraph company has
procured from the city fDtllas, Tex,
u right OF way substantially and In
form ns herein asked Tor, and are now
actively engaged In opening an ex-
change there under contract 40 to do
with some three hundred subscribers
In said city.
And your petitioners would further
state that they desire and expect, ~
soon as possible and practicable, to
connect Fort Worth and Dallas with
a telephone line, and all other points
OF Importance In the state and United
States, by means of other state organi-
lations, acting In conjunction with
the Texas Overland Telephone aud
Telegraph company, and now under
contract so To do, by means of which
telephonic communication are made
to take the place of telegraphic mes
sages with more certainty and satisfac-
tion to the sender or transmitter and
with much less expense.
Your petitioners further beg leave 10
say that the said Texas Overland Il
Telegraph company win furnish To its
patrons and subscribers cheaper tele.
phonic service by M least % per cent.
than any now In use or offered To the
public, and with equal II not superior
satisfaction.
That they will abide by and perform
all tho laws, rules, customs and ordi.
nances of the city of Fort Worth, and
the state of Texas, 80 far as the
same are applicable TO It's operations.
Therefore your petitioners pray the
granting OF this petition ~ herein be-
fore stated. w. &. HOWARD,
w. q. VEALE,
Il. NJ. KNEpFLY,
]. ID. BRocKMAN,
Il. q. kENNEN,
$. q. KENNEDY
-. aud others.
The petition was referred to the COM
mittee on streets, alleysnnd sidewalks.
City Attorney SwAyne read au or.
dinance providing for the issuance of
bonds to obtain money to carry out a
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