Telegram-herald., 1891-08-04
ELECTRICITY has "RIZ'
The City Must Pay Moro for the
Next Three Months-
TUE TELEPHONE ORDINANCE FAILS
The Company osts shs Deeamsst Fixsd
To its sikiags but the ThihK heaSs
fire-the tisy faseisases the Ad-
altioa 10 John Bail Park

| "t'ttAh 50 anu s1Ath itsAkc III Asa1s
man Doyie's rubicund features when
the mayor took his seat upon the cisic
throne last evening. The session that
followed Was busy one, but there
were few startling features. jolly JACK
Hayward had = panied expression on
his face when be came into the cham
bers, and the cause OF II became after
| ward apparent, IN q rc:naf kabie rise IN
| the price OF electric lights. The Hall
| wood brick man was on hand with Z
snap game, claiming that the petition
for asphalt on Ion:a-st. was not signed
by majority OF the property owners.
| Alderman Tateum started 70 haul the
chestnuts out of the fire. but he flnal y
tumbied to the snap and declined To
T, fight forit. The paving OF Ionls-st. Is
still an oren matter and the property
owners will probably have their choice.
A communication from h. IL. Harton
and others, residents OF the southern
part of the city, asked the council COM
| mittee appointed to make arrange
ments with the toll roads lying within
the city limits to report progress. The
communication stated that the signers
were without fire and police protection.
water, lights. or any other municipal
| luxuries, all of which they could
patiently endure, but the paying OF
toll for the privilege Of riding through
one Of the streets of the city IS u hard
ship against which they protest. Re-
ferred 20 the committee.
The bond of the Reeds Lake Electric
| Electric Railway Company to insure
| that the road will remain q competing
line was filed with the clerk. IL was
signed by s. Wesselius and w. F. Dick.
erson, and the penalty is $4,000.
Superintendent Bellinghouse OF the
fire alarm system, reported that the
Postal Telegraph Company had set
! poles on Broadway-st. without author
| ity of the council, and n motion order
ing the removal of the poles was
adopted. The superintendent reported
that the feed wires on Lagraye-st.
would be removed tins week.
| The Committee On Ways and Means
| reported, recommending that the city
| treasurer be authorized to employ five
clerks, at salary rot to exceed SIS a
week, for the period between August
/ ID and February /, 1892. He was also
authorized TO employ cashier for =
| period dating from August ID To March
| Is, 1892, at salary not 10 exceed Sl25
| Il month. The report was adopted. Tie
| Grand Rapids Electric Light and Power
! Company notified the council that for
| the period intervening between the
| change of the tower system, the COM
pany would be obliged to charge the
city at the rate of $40 year per lamp.
| instead Of Slo3 as heretofore.
1t WAS also stated that
the company would not bc able TO fur
n.sh the full number of lamps. Mr..
| Hayward said that the reason of the
sudden jump in price was because OF
the low water in the river, the CON-
pany being Obliged TO generate its cur
rent by steam power. The matter of
making temporary contract with the
| company Was referred to the Commit
tee on lamps, with power to act within
| tho stated limit. The ordinance for the
extension of the fire limits OH the west
side WAS placed upon its first, second
and third readings and passed. The
urgency of the case was the cause of
| the unusual haste IN adopting the ordi-
nance. The new territory embraces
the whole of the block bounded by
! Turner, First, Scrbner and West
! Brldge-sts. The immediate occasion of
the enlargement of the limits was To
prevent the Street Railway Company
from erecting wooden storage barn
on the First-si. frontage of the block.
The ordinance for the inspection of
milk was submitted, placed upon its
first and second readings and ordered
printed.
The Committee on Parks reported
that they had an option on II $40
acres of land owned 10y Henry ). De-
Forest at the rate Of 500 an acre or
$3.50. The committee recommended
that the property bc purchased at that
figure. The report stated that the
property Is covered by u mortgage of
5000 and that 1t can he'purchased sub
ject TO that mortgage for $3.50 cash.
| The report of the committee was
adopted and the clerk was authorized
to draw a warrant on the city treasurer
for the amount.
The comm ttee appointed to formu-
late plan for the expedition of busI-
ness in the council, made a report.
! They recommended that resoiutionf
! for the rebuilding and repairing oe
sidewalks be msssed together in the
I city clerks Office combined intp ons
loint resolutions: that tho comptroller 8
report he printed before It shall he
adopted. except the portions relating "a
| highway commissioners, labor bills of
employes and the Police and Fire de-
| partmeut pay roll. That on roll calls,
EXCEPT those involving special assess
n ent or taxation ali aldermen shall bc
/ recorded as voting yes except they
then and there announce to
! the contrary. That IN regard
/ 10 former resOlutlOns embodying
| former action of the action of the
council, tne reading hy the clerk he
omitted and the purport of the resolu-
/ ton be stated the report was ordered
/ printed IN the proceedings of the coun-
I cil that the aldermen may nave per-
feet understanding of its purport before
/ voting upon lts adoption
Alderman Izteum called Up the side
I walk ordinance and il VAS placed upon
its thIra reading.
Alderman Enmer submitted an
/ snendmeBt ctr king ont all territory
on the west sde of the rver, and i
/ was aaoptea. After several other
amendments the ordinance was passed
1he underground wsre ordinance that
hsa heen passed by the c9unell and
/ which the telephone company had re-
/ fused to accept, was taken 40 and tbs
/ vot@ iv which II vas adopted wSs
! considered Nr. ForhRs, Of Detroit,
/ addressed tne council n behalf
I Of the telephone company. The
grounds Of tns cornpsny's objections
I have already been sisted and Mr..
/ Forbes remarks we're simply reitera-
ton OF TIE communication presented
one week sSo. section ?. Il the ordIn-
I anee wh.eh restricts the esasDnnT IN Is
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