The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-11

DR.. knsonrne Tells why-Hese Goa
tract Lea FInAIly.
The bids for eseetric lighting OF the
streets were 20 have teen opened Nv TIE
board Of works ysstesaAy, bat none we're
received The only paper on the subject
submitted VAS long communication
from rressdenf ktlhoarne. az the Union
Electric Company. stating that he did net
receive plans and specifications till last
Thursday evening. and tognd them 80
contain conditions Impossible TO accom-
plish and unsafe 10 attempt 20 fulfill
Dr.. ks.bourpe gives IN detail his obiee-
lions 20 the plans. lie objects 10 the pro-
posed photometric test, and saws the test
adopted by the National Electric Light
Association. that = 2,U0-cAndle power
lamp shall De one taking 40 watts, is ab-
soiutely correet. He says the provision
that the city mar order "a many new
lamps IS IL please and discontinue them
when it pleases, might cost the successful
bidder many thousand dollars for new
lamps. which might in few weeks be
ordered out he instances the recent
ordering Of forsy-txo arc lamps. which
would be cut ont under the
proposed nes contract on October
1, and says compliance with this
order would have involved direct loss Of
$Selc. He says the thirteen lights at
Fremont have caused direct loss % s. q
month per lamp. yet il Is proposed 10 dis
continue all but two. He says the proviso
that lights commence half an hour before
sunset, and cease half an hour before sun
rise. would add Is 10 - Der cent to the pres
ent time OF burning. He then offers to sub
NIT proposal which will result in q very
large saving and still satisfactorily light
the city. The present plans would re-
quire an entire rearrangemenf OF the pres
en-. circuits, at an outlay Of several
thousand dollars. and each additional
light would require another rearrange-
ment Therefore it would be unsafe to
bid unless the cost per lamp is greatly in
creased.
He then says that under plans which
Will enable him to figure approximately
the amount of hight TO be used in the year
and under which new lights will remain
in service, 50 that the company can figure
definitely the amount of investment 10 be
made, the company will be able to make a
much lower rate. and thus give more light
for the money than under the present
plans.
He says his company and its predeces-
sors have lighted the city for eight years
a. lower rates than other cities on the
Coast and in the East. its stockholders are
citizens of Seattle, and its seif-interest die
tates the policy of the most economic
service consistent with good service. He
ends by asking an opportunity TO bid ac-
cording to changed plans and specifca-
tions.
The long vexed question of the purchase
Of fire hose was decided by the board by
the making of the following awards:
To the Revere Rubber Company, $50 feet
3is-inch Mastih a. $I.70 per toot; to the
Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing
Company. $50 feet 3I5-inch Maltese Cross,
at $50 per foot; to the Boston Betting
Company. $50 feet 2lS-ineb Imperial, at
50 cents per foot; 20 the Gutta Percha
and Rubber Manufacturing Company, so
feet 2is-inch Baker fabric, at 80 cents per
foot; 10 the Eureka Fire Hose Company
$50 feet 2t<-inch Paragon, at 30 cents per
foot, Total cost, $3.50.
The petition of Rev. Victor Garland and
others for the construction of a sewer on
Madison and Fiibert streets, from the
alley east of Fourteenth 10 Kenny street,
on ihe immediate payment system, was
referred TO the city engineer for estimates.
City Engineer Thomson submitted esti-
mates for the iri provemento of Lewis street,
from Yesler avenue 10 the north line of
the Walla Walla addition, as follows:
Property owners portion, s7.400: city's
portion. 1915; total, ss.375. The matter
was referred 10 the city council.
IL was ordered that the correspondence
in regard to the contract with the FREE
mont Milling Company be referred to the
city council. with ~ recommendation that
S. month DO paid for fuel for the next
year whiie the mill Is runninO