The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-05-25
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
The City Council Unanimously
Votes to Grant the Fran
Chise to a Kansas
City Company.
IT Is APPROVED BY THE MAYOR.
The People Will Vote on the PrOpO,
sitiOn ON June 18Th.

SitlOn on June l8th.
The city council, on last Thursday
night, voted unanimously to grant an
electric light franchise TO the Kansas
City company.
There were but few citizens in the
council when the vote was taken, but
every one there was happy over the
final verdict of the ''city dads"
The proposition will go to the people
on Tuesday, June 18th, for their final
ratification.
The ordinance in full is printed be-
low. Let our citizens inform Them
selves of its contents. Read carefully,
and we believe you will vote for it.
An ordinance authorizing Thomas
Wolfe, his associates and assigns to
erect, maintain and operate electric
lighting and electric power plants with
in the city of Lexington, in the county
of Lafayette aud state of Missouri, for
the purpose of furnishing the city and
the inhabitants thereof with suitable
and sufficient electric lighting and
electric power, for the term Of twenty
! years.
BE it ordained by the mayor and
city council of the city of Lexington:
SECTION l.. That Thomas Wolfe,
his associates and assigns are hereby
authorized to erect, maintain and oper-
ate electric light and electric power
plants within the city of Lexington, in
the county of Lafayette and state of
Missouri, upon the terms and condi-
tons hereinafter set forth and provided.
SEC. 2. This ordinance, when rati-
fled by the legal voters of the city of
Lexington, rs hereinafter provided,
shall confer the exclusive right upon
the grantees 10 erect, maintain and
operate electric lighting and electric
power plants within said city for term
of ten Cl0) years, from the date of
such ratification, except for the opera
ton of street railways, and the further
right to maintain and operate their
said plant for another term of ten
years, commencing with the expiration
of the exclusive franchise herein
granted, making the life of the fran
chise to maintain and operate said
plant twenty (20) years.
SEC. 8. The grantees herein, shall
have completed and in operation, an
electric lighting plant of ample Ca
pacity in its electrical and steam power,
to supply said city and the inhabitants
thereof with suitable and sufficient
electric lights, within six 60 months
after the date that this ordinance shall
be ratified by the legal voters of said
city as hereinafter provided. The said
grantees to commence the erection of
said plant within sixty days from the
ratification of tins franchise.
SEC. 4. The electric lighting and
steam machinery used in the construc-
ton of the electric lighting plants
hereby authorized to be erected, shall
be of the latest design and most ap-
proved machinery for furnishing cleo
trio lighting, and shall be divided into
such units of capacity as shall best
secure a continuous and interrupted
service, and SAID plant shall be
operated every night and all night,
unless prevented by causes that shall
be beyond the control of the grantees,
and should there at any time occur
such a stoppage of the operation of
said plant, then and in that case all
necessary repairs shall be made and
the plant be put in operation at the
earliest day possible. And If from any
cause Except providential causes) said
grantee or his assigns fails to furnish
the light as agreed herein, then a pro
rata reelection shall be made in the
payment for lighting. And if the
said grantee or his assigns shall fail to
furnish light according to the terms of
this contract for the space of sixty
days, then the city council maS-hy a
majority vote DECLARE said contract aud
franchise null and void.
SEC. s.. The grantees shall not
charge or receive for light rentals to
exceed the rates fixed by this section,
tO-wit:
For arc lights of 1000 candle power.
each burned upon the streets of said city
as hereinafter provided, the sum of six
dollars and fifty cents (S6. SOY each per
month.
For are lights in business houses,
burned till ten O'Clock p. m. six
CSC. 00) dollars per month burned till
midnight seven $500 dollars per
month, and when burned all night ten
(Sl0) dollars per month.
For sixteen candle power incandes-
cent lights, IN business houses, Offices,
residences and other buildings when
burned, each light sixty 600 cents per
month.
In business houses and in residences
where five or more lights are wired in, the
buildings, meters will be supplied and
lights furnished for three-fourth of a
cent per hour for the time each light is
actually burned, and when bills are
paid by the fifth day of each month, a
reduction of twenty per cent will be
made on meter rates only.
All users of incandescent lights will
be furnished with lamps in the first
instance free, but all lamp renewals
Will NC iViIiSuEu ~ thCil GoSl iaiu
down in Lexington, unless users of
lights should prefer to buy their lamps
from other dealers. Users of lights to
have the option to take lights at meter
rates or not.
SEC. g.. For the purpose of the cree
ton Of said electric light liant, and
power plant, the said Thomas Wolfe,
his associates and assigns, by them
selves, or their employees are hereby
granted the right and are authorized to
enter upon any street, avenue, alley,
bridge or public ground belonging to
or under the control of. said city for the
purpose of setting their poles and
stretching their line wires for the dis
tribution of the electric current to such
lamps as they may be required to
furnish, but it is hereby stipulated that
said grantees are to leave all streets
and alleys in as good condition as they
found same.
SEC. Z. In the construction OF said
plant, the line wires shall be carried on
poles thirty-fiye $3.50 feet long and the
street lamps hing between poles forty
(40) feet long set five feet IN the
ground and properly gnyed when
needed. The line wires used shall be
of the best three braid weather proof
Insulation and the entire insulation to
be done in conformity with the rules OF
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