St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-21

ROBT. A. SMITH, Mayor.
Attest:
THos. A. PRENDERGAsT, City Clerk
Jan. 81.
ORDINANCE No. 8S2.
An Ordinance to Grant The Eureka I'm
prOvement Company of st. Paul TIT
Right to Use Certain Streets ant
Bridges.
The Common Council of the City O.
st. Paul do Ordain as follows:
Section l. That the privilege is here
by granted to the Eureka improvement
company to string it's wires for carrying
electric currents for the purpose of fur
niShing light and power upon the
bridges across the Mississippi river il
said city, commonly known as the
Wabasha street bridge and the Robert
street brid ge, under the supervision
and direction of the City Engineer anG
Committee on Streets, such wires to be
subject to removal as the Com mon
Council may at any time direct, at the
cost and expense of SAID company. The
said The Eureka Improvement com
pany hereby assumes all liability that
may be caused by the stringing OF such
wires and the use of the said electricity
and shall give bond to be approved by
the Corporation Attorney IN the sum OF
$4,000, conditioned at all times to 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 Eureka Improvement
company the exclusive privilege of
using electric light in the city of St.
Paul.
Sec. 8. That the said The Eureka I'M
provement company be and is hereby
permitted to erect poles for stringing
wires for carrying electric currents for
the purpose of furnishing light and
power ON the following streets in said
city, to wit: ST. Peter street; Fifth
street, west of st. Peter; Sixth street,
west of ST. Peter; Pleasant avenue,
Mulberry street and the alley in blocks
fIfty-nlne, sixty, SiXty-0ne and sixty
two, Irvine's enlargement of Rice &
1rvine's addition; all the alleys in block
numbered l of Kern's addition; block l
of Selby, McClung Il Van Meters addi-
ton; blocks l, 2, 5, 6, z, s, 9, 10, IL, IL,
-, IA, Is, Is, 10, 20, 81 and % of Wood
land Park addition; Irvine avenue
Walnut, Chestnut and Sherman streets
Nelson avenue; the alleys in blocks II,
~, 70, "a and n, Dayton & Irvine's adj
dltlOn; Third street; Sixth street, east
Of Sibley; Eighth street, east of Sibley
Ninth street, east of Sibley; Maria ave
nue.; Bates avenue, and all such ave-
nues, streets or alleys. as the Common
Council may from time to time duly au-
thorize by resolution passed by vote of
two-thlrds of all the members elect, all
OF said poles to be under the supervision
OF and subject to the control of the CITY
Engineer and the Committee on Streets,
and upon and under the following con-
ditions and instructions, to-wit: Such
poles shall not be less than forty feet in
height above the ground, and shall not
be less than sixteen inches in diameter
at the bottom and eight inches in diam
eter at the top; they shall be planed and
painted a 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 one
hundredfeet apart, except otherwise
expressly permitted by the City En-
gineer, and at least five feet at the top
OF all poles OF said company shall be, in
consideration of the passage of this Or
dlnance, the exclusive property of the
city and reserved for the use of
the Fire and Police Departments
OF said city. And in case any other cor
porations, companies or persons are
now or shall be at any time hereafter
permitted by the Common Council of
said city to erect poles or string it's
wires for the purpose of electric light
ing. and such corporation OF corpora
lions, company or companies, person or
persons shall desire to use the poles so
erected by said The Eureka Improve
ment company for the purpose of sup
porting the wires for such purpose, such
corporations, companies or persons shall
be entitled to do SO upon paying to said
The Eureka Improvement company, it's
successors or assigns, its propOrti onate
share OF the cost of procuring and erect.
ing such poles, to be determined as fol-
lows: Upon the erection of poles upon
any of said streets, said The Eureka
improvement company shall immedi-
ately report to said City Engineer the
actual cost OF such poles as erected, and
said City Engineer shall ascertain and
determine the 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 Eureka I'm
provement company aforesaid, its sue
ceSSOrS or assigns, One-half of said
actual cost of the poles so used, as de-
termined by said City Engineer; and in
case of second application, the appli-
cant shall pay One-third of the actual
cost of the poles so used, the same to be
divided equally between the said The
Eureka Improvement company and the
first applicant, and successive appli-
cants shall pay their prOportiOnate share
of such cost, the same to be divided pro-
pOrtiOnately in like manner, and all ap-
plicants so paying their proportionate
share of the cost of said poles shall be-
come and be by common consent Joint
owners with said The Eureka In
prOvement company of said poles
and shall be entitled to use them for
the purpose of electric lighting (as long
as they do not come within a distance
of two feet of the wire on the said poles
owned and operated by said The
Eureka Improvement company And
it is conditioned that if any other cor
poratiOns, companies or persons have
procured, or shall procure, like per-
mission from said Common Council to
erect its poles on said streets, or any of
them, and shall actually erect its poles
on any of said streets before said The
Eureka Improvement company shall
have erected its poles on said streets.
then the permission hereby granted is
withdrawn, and said The Eureka I'M
prOvement company shall be restricted
to using such poles then already erected;
under the conditions as here contained.
And it is expressly provided, that in