The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-06
BID. ron srRxKr LIsar.se.


Alternative Offers by rnion Electric
other Companies Bid Jointly.
At the meeting Of the board OF pubic
works yesterday bids we're opened for
lighsing the city for the ensuing year. In
ell five eids were received. three from the
Union Electric company. and enc each
from the Seattle Gas 4 Electric Light
Company and the Rainier Power & Rail-
way Company. The last tvo in effect
constitute bit ore bid. the offer Of one
company being 20 ligh; portion az The
city. and of the other company the re-
mainder. The. bids were ordered sent TO
the city council
The three proposals Of the Union Eiec-
trio Company. under plan z. are IS fol-
lows: No. l. 20 furnish II arc lamps and
SIS i5-candle power incandescents, So. 30;
II ares and $50 3ocsndle incandescents.
$50 ga; No. 5. II ares, 2is i5-candls inean-
descents and 535 SO-csndie incsndescen;s,
located at the points where the lamps are
now in operation. s., 500. Each OF these bids
is submitted as whole. TIE city may at
any time order additional arc lamps at the
rate OF si0 IS each per month, to De hung
from brackets on poles located not further
than one block from any arc lights ordered
Second, Pine. Third. Pike, Z ghth, South
Tenth and Norman streets snd Railroad
avenue. including boundary streets. For
district B. comprising the territory out
side district A and within the CIR
cumierencs Of . circle having q
radius of one and one-hslf miles,
with the center ut the intersection
of james street and Yesler avenue, the
company proposes TO furnish additional
arc lights for sl2 each per month. In dis
trict c. embracing the territory outside of
and inside the city limits the proposed
rate for additional arcs is Sl& per month.
The following provisions are also in
Guided in the bids: For ten arcs, ordered
at any one time and not distant more than
one block from each other IN any portion
of the city, $l4 each: for ares hung over
street intersections, 81 extra; new incan-
descent hoods, fixtures and rsiectors,
$40; wrought iron pipe bracket arms for
attaching hoods TO poles, 81; hoods only.
each. $50; porcelain automatic eatouts,
wired, $3.50; same. unwired. 81 25: tin re-
Electors, % cents; porcelain reiieeiors, 65
cents: labor, per hour, 50 cents
The Seattle Gas & Electric Light Com
pany offers to furnish all arc lights in
plan Y at the rate of 50 95 per month, in
the following territory. excluding boun-
dairy lines: That portion by the city
bounded on the south and east of the city
limits and on the west and north as fol-
lows: Beginning at the intersection of
the south and west city limits; thence TO
the intersection of the west city limits
with Pike street; thence along Pike to
Tenth thence 10 the corner of Tenth and
Howell; thence 10 the corner of Howell
and Depot; thence along Depot and
Hawthorne to the corner of Hawthorne
and Broadway; thence TO Harrison;
thence to the corner of Harrison and Rose;
thence north along continuation of
Rose to the northern city limits.
Further, If the bid is acceptable the COM
pany agrees to establish gasoline lights of
st least l6-candle power at all points in
plan indicated for incandsscent and
also such further gasoline lamps as may
be ordered by the city, the total number
of original and additional lights not to
exceed ZOO. At the rate of 81 IS per month,
to be Of a form similar to a sample sub
mitted to the board aud mounted on cedar
posts seven feet high. The proposals may
be accepted Is TO either arc or gasoline
lights alone, but neither of these propo-
sitions can be divided.
The Rainier Power and Railway Com
pany's bid is supplementary TO the bid of
the Seattle Gas and Electric Light Com
pany, and proposes 10 furnish arc lamps
according to plan q in the remaining por-
ton of the city. including boundary lines.
at the rate of 1895 each i5-eandie incan-
descents. si.s5: 3oAcandle incande scents,
s. 90 The city is gwen the option of
changing the ineandescent lamps from Is
10 3o-candle power, or vice versa, on ten
days notice, and q corresponding change
In compensation. Each of the bids Is
offered as unit and Is accompanied By q
certified check for $i.e00.
The secretary was instructed to transmit
TO the city council the communication of
A. s. Kerry regarding al blocks for paw
ing purposes. Like disposition was made
of the proposition of JOSIAH Collins re-
garding an exchange of properties; also
the assessment roll of the East street i'm
provement from the city engineer, show
ing the property owners portion TO be
s., $50 and the city's portion 1926.
resolution was adopted providing that
q division of the collection of seeds raised
in the city nursery be deferred. because
two-thirds Of the seeds require another
year TO germlnate and become plants.