The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-09
THE CONTRACT LET.
City Council Accepts Bids for
Lighting Streets.
EITHER ELECTRIC or GASOLINE.
Joint Bsds OF Rainier Power & Railway
and seattle Gas & Electric light
Companies Accepted.

At a special Joint meeting of the city
council held yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of taking action upon the matter
OF street lighting for the coming year the
bid. of the Rainier Power & Railway Com
pany and the Seattle Gas and Electric
Light Company were accepted and the
chairnen of the light committees OF ooth
houses instructed to prenare an ordinance
covering the recommendation Of the COM
mittee OF the whole. TO be acted upon at
the next meeting OF the council.
The Seattle Gas and Electric Light Conn.,
pany In its bid agrees TO furnish ell arc
lights in plan 2 at the rate OF 1885 per
month, in the following territory, exciud-
ing boundary lines:
That portion of the city bounded on the
south and east by the city limits and on
the west aud north as follows: Beginning 81
the intersection Of the south and west city
irnitsl with Pike street; thence along Pike
TO Tenth thence To the corner OF Tenth ana
Howell; thence 10 the corner OF Howell
and Depot: thence along Depot and Haw-
ihorne to the corner OF Hawthorne and
Broadway: thence to Harrison; thence 10
the corner OF Harrison ana Rose; thence
north along a continuation OF Rose 10 the
northern city limits.
The company also agrees To establish
gasoline lights of at least six,een-cand!e
power at all points in plan indicated tor
incandescent, and also such further gaso-
line lamps as may be ordered by the city.
the total number of original and additional
lights not TO exceed ], 000 ut the rate of
81 IS per month. to be of q form similar 10
a sample submitted TO the council and
mounted on cedar posts seven feet high.
The accepted bid of the Rainier Power
& Railway Company is supplementary to
that of the Seattle Gas and Electric Light
Company. which agrees TO furnish arc
lights according to plan z in the remain
ing portion of the city, including boundary
lines, at the rate of 1885 each: fifteen
candle incandescents, sLs5; thirty-candls
incandescents, $295. The city is given the
option of changing the incandescent lamps
from fifteen to thirty-candle power, or vice
versa. on ten days notice, and corre-
spending change in compensation.
The reading BY the clerk of the several
bids submitted. o; which the Union Elec-
trio Company presented four separate
ones, besides those OF the Seattle Gas and
Electric Light Company and the Rainier
Power 4 Railway Company, started
general discussion as 10 the merits of the
different propositions. DIR. Swesny object
ing to the bid of the Seattle Gas and Elec-
trio Light Company because of its gasoline
lamp clause. He read statistics from the
reports of the cities of st. Louis and Pro-
whence, showing that the use of gaso-
line for street purposes had proved
costly and unsatisfactory because of
its inetiiciencv. Alderman Lovejoy
said il would be dangerous
experiment 10 put in gasoline lamps; the
use OF gasoline for this purpose was obso-
iete and only used where il was impossible
to secure other means of lighting. He was
opposed 10 it. Delegate Hard moved TO
Law on the table the motion for the accept
ance Of this bid, but the motion Was lost by
a vote of ten to three net voting, Aneer-
son. kistier and Little. who were
opposed TO the bids The question was
finally called for and q motion to accept
the bid OF the Seattle Gas and Electric Light
Company carried. IL was then moved and
carried hy vote o. ten 10 three 10 accept
the supplementary bid OF the Rainier
Power & Railway Company, and the chair.
men OF the light committees instructed TO
prepare an ordinance covering the recon-
mendations Of the board TO be presented at
the next meeting.
A special meeting Of the council will be
called for tomorros night 10 take final ac-
ton on the matter.