Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-28
BONDS FOR SEWERS
The City Council Decides to Arrange
For Sewerage For the Capt.
tai City.
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FREE
Paving Ordinance and Others Enacted
at a Meeting Saturday Evening
The Telephone Company Will
Furnish the Fire Alarm
System Free Of Ex-
pense to the City.

AT a meeting Of the city council Sat
urday evening, the following members
were present: Alarid, Baca, Lopez, Pat
terson, Eugenio Sena, Sol. Spiegelberg
and Trujillo, and Mayor Sloan.
In the absence of the city clerk, r. L.
Baca attended to the duties.
A contract was authorized between
the city and the Santa Fe Electric Tele-
phone Company for an electric fire
alarm system. The telephone company
will install and maintain a fire alarm
apparatus, consisting of one automatic
bell striker, which will toll the number
of the calling box. There will be sixteen
call boxes in various parts of the city,
and as the city increases in population
an additional box for every 500 people
will be added. One telephone will be
furnished to the fire department.
The city will not pay for construction
nor for service, but in consideration
therefor gives the telephone company
assurance that for twenty years no 9TH
err company will be given the right to
use the streets for telephone poles, nor
a franchise for a telephone business.
The company will maintain the fire
alarm system at it's own expense. If the
city grants another franchise, then the
fire alarm system must be purchased at
cost, $1,000, and $500 for each additional
box above sixteen, with interest at 6
per cent, and $500 per annum for eX-
penses, from date of completion of the
plant, which must be in service by the
end of mex December. The city also
has the right to purchase the plant on
the above basis by giving six months
notice. The contract has been executed
by the mayor and H. B. Cartwright,
president of the company.
The telephone company has attached
to the contract a statement of the rates
it will charge for telephone service
during the life of the above agreement,
and stipulates that these shall not be
increased. For a telephone used for
business purposes the rate will be $36
per annum; for a private residence, $40
per annum; for a boarding house, $36,
and the same where more than one
family uses the instrument. If various
business firms use a telephone jointly
the rate will be increased 1924 per an
nun for each user more than one.
The council passed a number of i'm
portant ordinances, one of which
changes the boundary line running
south and north of wards No. 8 and 4 to
the monument in the middle of the
plaza.
Others authorize the auditing of all
accounts against the city by the presi-
dent of the council; make it the duty
of fire companies to rope off the streets
chapters 80 and 81 of the ordinances of
1898, which are an agreement with the
water company for water supply to the
city. A form Of notice to property own
ers to curb and lay pavements was
adopted, which, if it is disobeyed, will
result in the city laying the pavement
and collecting the cost and a penalty
by law from the property holder.
The most important ordinance passed
was one providing for an issue of bonds
to the amount of 5000 for street and
sewer Improvements. The ordinance
was adopted upon recommendations
made in a lengthy report by the city
engineer.
Councilman Solomon Spiegelberg,
who arrived late at the meeting, vigor-
ously opposed the ordinance, and de-
clares that he would have opposed the
other legislation passed If he had been
there in time to take part in the discus
sions.
An ordinance establishing a Santa Fe
fire company was referred to the fire
committee.
The New Mexican was unanimously
awarded the contract for printing the
city ordinances.
The council adjourned to meet in reg.
ular session next Monday evening.