The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-09-08
Vote Stood Fifteen to
Four.
City Reserves Right to Cancel
Contract in Three Years.

last night and voted fifteen to four.to
give the lighting contract to the Portland
electric Light company for term Of
i've years providing the company would
sgres 90 the city's cancelling of the con
tract at the end Of three years II a saw
fit to do so or extending 1t 20 period Of
five years beyond the first five. Ths
contract to include the placing Of thres
hundred WeIlsbaeh gas lights In certain
Streets The rats for this contract TO be
s6s. 20 for 1900 candle power arcs, s57. 81
for 1000 candle power arcs, $3.50 for q
candle power incandescent and 81 8 for 81
candle pawer. incandescent. The rate 70,
Welfsbach lights to be $50 each, the rate
for meters to be- four and one half cents
per thousand watts. A discount Of ten
per cent to be allowed from these rrices,
The passage of this order in the ooun-
oil leaves the board of aldermen to fight
the battle and that board must agree to
the contract and pass the order before the
contract can be entered into.
The cou ncil met at half past seven
o'clock. Many of It's members were abb
sent when the nesting commenced but
came In aftcrwa rtis. Those absent when
the vote was taken being Messrs. Ger
IRISH, Mclaughlin, Sloman, Dow, Josse-
lyn, Dyer, Thomas. Phillips and John
son. Having passed a few orders in
concurrence with the upper board which
were left over from the last meeting, the
electric light contract was taken up and
proposals Of the several companies read.
MIR. Cloudy then took the door and
made speech an hour and half In
length In whi,h he discussed the PROPOSE
lions made by the several companies
from all stand points and went over the
entire matter very exhaustiveIy. Many Of
his arguments were old and have been
heard many times by the citizens of
Portland. Many of them were new and
some of his statements rather startling,
to ssy the least to the uniformed. His
desk was piled high with documents
when he commenced and he showed that
he had made thorough and exhaustive
study of the entire question. he argued
for the adoption of the i've years. con-
tract with the Portland Electric Light
company. In the course Of his speech
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carefully prepared speech and the longest
one the common council has listened to
In recent years. He presented the order
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relerenoe 10 ehe issser accompanying
the Dios Oh the Oonsoiiuateo hisesFio
Ligns company. ms onaracserizsa some
OIL tne soaseinenes maue In this letter as
impuuens anu SAID mat II any such ian-
guaee were addressed 10 business man
ny o"e WIZ haa anything 10 seii the per-
son VINO mace tne statement would be
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no enahkeu goa Foreland was az last
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'nae 'no compahs "hion hao MAD tine
liohopoiy ior al .nese years al last han
q eo,n pes''or' ~ .his oonheceion ne TOOK
s.on " pi".so ooorRe w. Drown as
'uan VINO hau uone h'uoh Tor forsiana'
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a.'s s.As spo guy naa pesa sp'e 10 uriVe
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