St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-25
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.
OF Ordinance Passed by the Comm N
Council of the City of St. Paul,
Aug. II. 1880.

granted to the Edison Electric Light and
Power Company of ST. Paul to erect such
telegraph poles and put in underground
system of wires for the purpose OF carrying
electric currents in the streets in the City OF
st. Paul, at such place or places and on
such streets as may be approved by the said
Common Council. under the supervision of
the City Engineer and Committee On Streets,
such poles and underground system to-
gether with the wires thereon and therein,
to be subject to removal TO such place or
places as the Common Council may at any
time direct, at the cost and expense of said
company The said The Edison Electric
Light and Power Company of st. Paul
hereby assume all liability that may be
caused by the erection of such poles and
underground system and the use of the SAID
electric light. and shall at all times save the
City of St Paul harmless therefrom and
from all damages growing out thereof
Sec. 2. Nothing herein contained shall
give to said The Edison Electric Light and
Power Company the exclusive privilege OF
using the electric light in the City OF st.
Paul
Sec. s. That the Edison Electric Light
and Power Company of st. Paul, be and Is
hereby, permitted to erect poles for string
ing wires and putting in an underground sys-
purpose of furnishing light and power on
the following named streets in said city,
to-wit: Second street, Third street. Fourth
street. Fifth street. Sixth street, Seventh
street, Eighth street, Ninth street, Tenth
street, Eleventh streeth, Twelfth street,
Broadway street, Canada street. Rosabel
street, Wakouta street, Cooper street, Pearl
street, Norris street, Spruce street, Sibley
street, Temperance street, Jackson street.
Robert street, Minnesota street, Cedar
street, Wabasha street, st. Peter street,
Summit avenue, Cottage street, Pleasant
avenue, Oak street, Rice street, Fort street,
Exchange street, Franklin street. Washing
ington street, Spring street, Market street,
Chestnut street. Walnut street, Sherman
street, Ontario street. Pine street, Olive
street, John street, Locust street, Dayton
avenue, Western avenue, Iglehart street,
University avenue, Selby avenue, Laurel
avenue, Dale street, Como avenue, and
Mississippi street. under the supervision OF
and subject to the inspection and control OF
the City Engineer and Committee on
Streets, and upon and under the following
conditions and instructions, to-Wlt: Such
poles shall not be less than twenty-five feet
in height above the ground, and shall not
be less that ten inches in diameter at the
bottom, and six inches in diameter at the
painted dark color for the distance of six
feet from the ground and from that point
to the top they shall be painted white, they
shall be set forty PAGES apart, except other
wise expressly permitted by the City Engi-
neer. And in case any other corporations.
companies or persons are now OF shall be at
any time hereafter permitted by the Com
mon Council of said city, to erect poles or
string its wires for the purpose OF electric
lighting in said city, or to use the streets
of said city for the purpose OF electric light
ing, and such corporation or corporations,
company or companies person or persons,
as shall desire to use the poles so erected
by said Edison Electric Light and Power
Company of st. Paul, for the purpose of
supporting the wires for such purpose, such
corporations, companies or persons, shall
be entitled to do so upon paying to said
Edison Electric Light and Power Company
of st. Paul, its successors or assigns, the
proportionate share of the cost of procuring
and erecting such poles, to be determined
as follows: Upon the erection OF poles
upon any of said streets said Edison Elec-
trio Light and Power Company OF st. Paul
shall Immediately report to said City En-
gineer the actual cost of such poles as
erected. and said City Engineer shall ascer-
tain and determine actual cost OF said
poles so erected, and certify the amount
which he shall find to be correct, and keep
a record thereof in his office for public in
spection Upon the first application as
aforesaid to use the poles so erected, the
applicant shall pay to the Edison Electric
Light and Power Company of ST. Paul one
half of said actual cost of said poles as de-
termined by said City Engineer. and, in
case OF a second application. the applicant
shall paw one-third of such cost, the same
to be divided equally between the said
Edison Electric Light and Power Company
of st. Paul and the first applicant; and sue
cessive applicants shall pay their proper
toned share of such cost the same to be
divided proportionately in like manner and
all applicants so paying their proportlonate
share of the cost of said poles shall become,
and be by common consent Joint owners
with said Edison Electric Light and
Power Company OF st. Paul of
said poles. and shall be entitled to
use them for the purpose of electric light
ing (as long as they do not ceme within
distance of ten feet of the lowest wire on
said pole owned and operated by the Edi-
son Electric Light and Power Company of
st. PAUL. And it is conditioned that if
any other corporations. companies or per-
sons (other than corporations, companies or
persons using the Are light system) have
procured or shall procure like permission
from said Common Council to erect poles
Oh said streets or any of them, and shall
actually erect its poles OH any OF said
streets before said Edison Electric Light
and Power Company of st. Paul shall have
erected its poles on said streets, then the
permission hereby granted IS withdrawn,
and said Edison Electric Light and Power
Company of ST. Paul shall be restricted to
using such poles then already erected, I'M
der the conditions as herein contained.
And it is expressly conditioned and pro-
yided that in case said Edison Electric
Light and Power Company of st. Paul shall
refuse to allow any applicant to use its
poles upon payment of the proportionate
amount therefor, and to sell to said appli-
cant such proportionate part OF said poles
as herein provided, thereupon the right OF
said Edison Electric Light and Power COM
pany of st. Paul to erect and maintain Its
said poles upon the streets of said city shall
cease. and the same shall be forthwith re-
moved from said streets or any of them
upon and under the order and direction Of
the Common Council.
Sec. f. The poles hereby authorized to
be erected shall be planed and painted, and
shs!l be set in the sidewalk close to the gut
tsr OF curb. unless special directions are 9TH
erwise given by the City Engineer. All poles
must be erected to the satisfaction and APP
proval of said Engineer, and Committee on
Streets.
Sec. 5. Whenever any street on which
any pole shall have been set shall be graded
or paved. the said Edison Electric Light
and Power Company of st. Paul shall, at its
own cost. reset said pole so as to conform
to the street as reconstructed.
Sec. 6. The Common Council reserves
the right to order and cause any or all OF
said wires to be laid under ground at any