The Portland daily press., 1896-10-23

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| No of mast arms complete =, at
$500 each, $500
Total, s53, 068. so
| Mr.. Jesse Peterson submits the fol-
| lowing estimates:
"For your information I would say
that arc lamps of the most modern style
and bsst manufacture of 1900 o. D. can
be Furnished for not more than $500
each, including hanging boards; 30 G. p.
incandesoent lamps of the best manufac-
| ture can be furnished for not more than
50 cents each; and 80 C. p. inoandescen
lamps for not more than 30 cents each,
and 16 0. p. incandescent lamps at not
more than s cents each. The coat
of maintenance of arc lights, nclud-
ing carbon. linemen, trinmer's
breakaQe and repair of lamps, would not
exceed $2. 90 per month, or s24. 0C per an
mum, and this like maintenance of in
candescent lamps would be from $3.50
per anum to so cents dependent upon the
size of lamp. These estimates are based
upon figures furnished by the General
Electric company and other experts and
can lie easily verified.
Montgomery H. johnson, ESQ.,, an
electrical engineer of New York gives the
following estimates:
arms, insulators and brackets, at SIS. 35
each; (80x6) set poles, with two pin GROSS
| arms and insulators at SALE eac (55x7)
set poles with four pin cross arms and
braces, at SIS. 80; (S0x7} act poles, with
two pin cross arms and 1nsulators, at
| 81. so; weather proof WIFE, no. at IA
cents per pound; double carbon arc
| lamps, connected with hoods, hood
boards and globes, at S31.W each; these
prices are made on basis Of a 100000
Q. p. electric lighting plant and contem-
plates the setting of about two thousand
poles
LAW RELATING TO AUTHORITY
| OF OTHER CORPORATIONS TO
| SUPPLY ELECTRICITy TO THE
CITY OF PORTLAND.
| In the proposition of Mr.. Jesse Peterson
| is the following statement:
II am met with a special difficulty,
growing out of the fact that recent law
of your State attempts to confer monopo-
llst1o privileges upon any eleDtric Light
1 ing company already occupying any
definite territory. without refelenee toSthe
manner or extent of such OCCUPATION, and
thereby attempts to shut out competition
In this line.
! The law referred to is under chapter 102
of the Public Laws Of 1895 and reads as
follows:
|
under shall have authority, without
special act of the, legislature, to make.
generate, sell, distribute or supply gas or
| electricity, or both, for any purpose in
| or to any city or town, in or to which
| another company person or firm are
making, generating, selling, distributing
or supplying, or are authorized to make.
generate SELL distribute or supply gas or
electricity, or both. without the eonsent
OF such other company, person or firm. {"
The committee submitted the following
questions to the City Solicitor:
l. May corporation organized under
the general laws of the State make a
contract to light the city Of Portland?
2. May such corporation sell to the
city Of Portland power to be used for
lighting the atty? g. May the city of
Portland make a contract with .Iesse
Peterson, ESQ.,, under the conditions
stated in his propositions
The reply of the City Solicitor in an
swer to the above questions is here given:
John T.. Pagan, Esq, Chairman of Com-
mittee on Lights:
Dear Sir:-I have the honor to replv ia
your communications of September attn.
and the questions therein, namely.-
| Questions / and p. Answer. Prior TO
the session of the Legislature in 1895.
sec. 16 Of ch. 4S of Revised Statutes was
construed by good lawyers to allow the
IOIScaulDdUlOh VI CoI pOIdulUuS uDC6r the
general Jaws of the State to furnish tn
cities and towns. heat, light and mower
generated by electricity. The Consult
dated Electric Light Company OF Maine
was organized and operated under the
general law until 1891, when a sneojai
charter was granted by act of Legislature
Oh. I03 of Public Laws of 1895 provides
for the organization of corporations for the
purpose OF making, generating, selling etc
gas or electricity or both. sec. Ist.. pro-
vides that no such corporation shall hava
authority without special fact of legisla.
ture to make, generate, sell, distribnte
or supply gas or electricity or both far
any purpose, III any CITY or town in
or to which another person or firm ara
making. generating. selling, distribusins
or supplying or are authorized to male
generate. sell, distribute or supply gas
or electricity or both without the con
sent of such other company, person On
firm The question does not imply thai
there is any corporation in existence IN
which the authority to supply the oitv If
Portland with light or power, genera tod
by electricity is vested. Ii there is sncb n
corporation in existence it's right to mai
contract 80 light the city or to sell Az
city of Portland power would densna
upon a construction of the terms NJ ~
charter. Beyond this / am of the on,n
Ion that nc corporation has the power =,
contract to light the oity or sell to in th w
Tn ho oho