St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-17

was in effect that the city should increase
the number of electric lights from 260 to
500, and allow the forty additional lights to
be placed at each corner of Washington av-
enue between the railroads, and on Nicol-
let Hennepin, First and Second avenues.
T. S. King explained that the company de-
sired to give the public practical illustra-
ton of how well the city can be lighted by
electricity when the lights are separated by
proper intervals, Instead of being scattered.
The contract of the company with the city
has about nine months to run. and 1t had
been decided. if the proposition was ac-
cepted. to reduce the price of the lamps
from $500 to $3.50 per ann1m, which would
supply the forty additional lamps at the
price that would be paid for ten under
the contract. The company also agreed to
move such lamps as are not needed on
streets lighted by gas to other locations.
Aid. Downs objected to maSSing so many
lights in the heart of the city, when there
is so much unlighted territory in the resi-
dence portion. Mr.. King explained that
the company had offered TO furnish the
forty lights at a greatly reduced price in
order to give a test of the Brush system.
and that the proposition had been made
solely for this purpose, and therefore would
not be made uDon any other conditions.
After further debate the number of lights
to be placed at each corner of the streets
named was reduced from forty to thirty
five. The committee next designated the
following new lights to be located in IN
lighted portions of the city.
Globe lights-Corner Spring and Polk;
Sixth and half avenue from Franklin to
Twenty-siXtn street; Fourteenth avenue
north. between Ninth and Tenth streets.
Electric lights-Corner Knox avenue and
Thlrty-frst street west; corner Twent,-tOurth
avenue and Twenty-fourth street south;
Eighth street and Twenty-third avenue south:
Twenty-secoud avenue and Fifth street south;
Prince street. between Central avenue and
Exposition building: corner Lyndale and
Eleventh avenues north; east end of Wash
ington avenue bridge; Washington and
Eighteenth avenues north; Lyndale and
E ghth avenues north; Lyndale and Twelfth
avenues north: Nicollet and Thirty third
streets west.
THE EDISON SYSTEM.
l. J. COchTane appeared before the COM
mittee in behalf of the Edison Electric
Light and Power company and presented
all I'd nance which grants the company
franchise for the maintenance of an cleo
trio lighting system by means of poles and
underground conduits in a territory which
portion of the city. Aid. Swenson thought
that a clause should be inserted,
which would provide that the company
should be bound to make such extensions as
the council might see fit to direct. He
feared. in the event of competition between
the gas and electric light companies, that
the former might abandon its extensions in
order to contine its resources to fighting the
electric light in the heart of the city. The
council cannot compel the gas company to
make extensions. and he thought that in
this event the electric light company should
be made to make extensions so that people
in the suburbs should not suffer. Capt.
Babb said that the gas company had received
an exclusive franchise from the city which
allowed it to do about as it pleases. and he
thought care should be exercised that no
other company gets such franchise. Other
members or the committee were in favor of
Withholding action until the Edison system
has been tested at ST. Paul The commit
tee finally went into executive session.