St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-01-03

| to defeat this motion as q postpone
mcnt for some time of all thought O
lighting the village by electricity
Whenever anything has been done
some cvnic will say that it ought tC
have been different or that he could
have done it better. Let's move
along and do something. This con
tract is better than the rest of the
towns have got and it is short
sighted policy not to ratifv it.
Cries of ''qucstion" at once brought
out discussion of how to take the
vote After several had cried bal
lot" ballot was taken, which re-
suited in the ratification of the con
tract bv vote of 3O1 to so. The
announcement of the result was re-
ccivcd with shouts of applause after
which the meeting adjourned.
The Contract.
Following is the contract that was
read at the meeting:
This agreement made this seventh day OF
| November y. D., 1883, by and between the
| village of St. Johnsbury, body polite and
| corporate in the county of Caledonia and
| Fletcher. O: p. Bennett, l. II. Frost A. L.
Bragg and Charles A. Caldcrwood its board
of trustees, duly authorized, and Thomson
| Houston Electric company, a corporation
duly organizes under the laws of the State OF
| Connecticut and having its principal place OF
! business in Boston, in the County of Suffolk
and State of Massachusetts. party of the
| second part, witncsscth as follows In con
! Sdcration of the mutual covenants and
agreements herein contained to be kept and
performed bY said village of st. JofnSbury
| and said TIL Electric company it is hereby
| mutually covcnantcd and agreed as follows
Said TIL Electric company covenants and
| agrees to construct, establish and equip with
| with suitable and sufficient power plant.
which shall also he furnished by said TIL
| electric plant combining both and incan-
| descent lights and sufficient with proper dy-
| namos. lamps and other appertenances, and
| such and suitable and sufficient power as
may be required for the successful operation
] of an electric light system sufficient i'll size and
! capacity i'll all respects not only to furnish
/ the twenty t2O) arc lights hereinafter mem
| toned, but also for such additional number
| as may he required for successfully lighting
| the streets and public places of said village.
| And it is understood and agreed that the
party of the second part as it's assigns is to
devote to the purposes aforesaid the power
acquired i'll pcrsuance ofa contract between it
| Bclknap Water Power company dated Nov.
6, 1855, or such portion of said power as
may be required to carry out the provisions
hereof in respect to power.
And said TIL company covenants and
agrees to operate said electric light plant for
the consideration hereinafter named to fur
nish, supply and operate i'll such locations in
the streets and public places in said village
the Trustees thereof shall direct, twenty COO
improved nominal two thousand (2OOO)
candle power arc lights of the TIL system of
their highest type and to burn the same dur
ing every night that lights shall reasonably
be required needed to suitably and salts
| factorily light the streets and public places in
said village from dark until midnight of all
and every such night for and during the term
of this contract, payment therefor to be made
lars per light per year PAYABLE in equal
monthly inStallmentS. And the said TIL
company further covenants and agrees dur
m q ht. tern a
in the same manner and same time as Spcciti-
cd above, to supply, furnish, and operate in
addition to said twenty lights thirteen NOM
inal 1000 candle power arc lights of the
TIL company manufacture, receiving no com
pensation for said 3 lights during the first
year other than the $500 to be PAID for said
20 lights.
At and after the expiration of the said one
year, the TIL company hereby covenants and
agrees that during the remaining term ofthis
lights, 33 lights i'll ALL or put in and main
tain during said term such number more or
less than 33 said village shall direct at
expense not to exceed $40 per year for such
light above the number of said 20, payment
for the first twenty to be still made at the
rate of $65 per year. And the said TIL com
any location of said village the Trustees
shall so decide they will put in 3 incandes-
cent lights of 80 candle power each in lieu of
arc light, and that the poles used by said
TIL company shall be smooth and painted.
1t is hereby understood and agreed that
the cost of making changes in the location of
lights, if any are required, after the same
have been once located, snail be pa1d by SAID
village In consideration of the covenants
and agreements of said TIL company herein
contained, said village covenants and agrees
to accept from said TIL company or its as
signs not less than 20 lights their
equivalents in incandescent lights above
specified and to pay therefor during the term
of this contract at the rate of S6i5 per light
per year, in equal monthly inStalmentS, it
being understood and agreed however. that
said village is not during said first year to
pay for the 1 3 additional lights which said
TIL company are to put in and operate the
al he torn ~ 1-saTf SnId
TIL company further covenants and agrees
that same electric light plant shall be put in
operation and that the streets of said village
shall be lighted thereby on or before the first
day of January, 1889, provided said water
power to he acquired from the Belknap water
power, above referred to, is ready to operate
the said plant at that time, otherwise
soon thcrcafterwarCls said water power is
ready The term of this contract shall COM
mcnce at the time that said lighting system
shall be put in successful operation in said
village and shall continue for period of
wears from and after said time fully to he
completed and ended.
In return whereof said village have caused
these presents to be required in its name and
behalf and its seal to he hereto aft xed by the
above named Trustees, and the TIL company
has caused the same to be signed and its cor
porate seal to be hereto afiix xed by c. a. Cof-
fin. its treasurer, the day and year first above
written.
1.-THE above is signed by all the village trus-
tees, and by {. y. Coffin, treasurer of the
TIL company, and recorded in the town
clerks office Nov 26, 1sSs-l
JUDGE Ross WITHDRA WS HIS SUIT.
The following letter explains itself:
ST. JOHNsBURY, VT, Dec %, 'SS.
To the Village of St. .Johnsbury =
Since the action of the voters in vii
lage meeting, Thursday evening, |
have no desire to pursue my suit and
injunctions against the village and
ThOmSOu-HO Electric comma