Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-18

! Tibbs, George Dalton and l.. It
: Brasher, to transmit to this Council
/ at its next regular session, with it
recommendation an ordinance autho
rizIng a contract to be made fol
? lighting the city for one year iron
October End, 1899, and an expendi
| ture of money for that purpose, Will
an estimate Of the cost, and whereas
said Water and Light Commute,
have made the following report:
TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF HOPKINS
VILE, KY.
1--WE, the undersigned members Of
the Water and Light Committee, Of
}, your Council, who were, at the last
regular meeting of the Council held
June End, 1899, directed to transmit
to this Council at its next regular
meeting, with its recommendation,
an ordinance authorizing a contract
to be made for lighting the City of
Hopkinsville for one year from Oc-
tober End, 1899, and an expenditure
of money for that purpose, with an
estimate of the cost, respectfully re-
port that we have made thorough
investigation of the question and
are of the opinion that the City
should be lighted with electric arc
lights, an#tha the expenditure
necessary for procuring and paying
for said lights for one year will be
about five thousand dollars. That
said contract should be for not less
than sixty arc lights of 1000 candle
power each, equal in steadiness and
brilliancy to any two thousand can
die power lamps in use in any City
in the United States. And we sub
nit herewith an ordinance provid-
ing for the expenditure by the City
of the necessary money for the pur-
pose Of paying for said lights for
one year from October End, 1899,
and directing the City Clerk to adj
vertise for ten days in some paper
printed in the City of Hopkinsville,
Ky, Tor sealed bids for lighting the
City of Hopkinsyille, Kentucky, with
electric lights as above, to be made
upon terms and conditions set out
in said ordinance.
Now therefore be it ordained:
/. That the above report of the
Water and Light Committee be and
the same is hereby received and APP
proved and the recommendation
contained therein adopted.
?. That an appropriation is
hereby made of the sum of S., 600, or
as much thereof as may be neces-
sary for the purpose of paying for
the Lighting of the City with Electric
Arc Lights, for one year from Octo-
| Der 2nd, 1899. under a contract that
may be hereafter entered into by
the City for the lighting of its
! streets.
3. That the City Clerk is hereby
directed 10 advertise in some news
paper published in the City of Hop
kinsville, Ky, for ten days, for
sealed bids, to be filed with the
City Clerk, before o. clock p. M,
August 4th, 1899, for lighting of the
City OF Hopkinsville, with sixty or
more electric arc lights, erected at
points to be designated by the au-
thorized agents of the City, bids to
be made under following specifica-
tons:
NUMBER. Bidders must state
price per lamp per annum each, for
sixty lights, and at what rate any
lights over sixty desired by the
City will be furnished
TERMS OF CONTRACT.-T con-
tract will be let from October 2ud,
1899, for a period of one year-lights
to be paid for at the end of each
month, at the contract rate.
ARC LIGHTS, CANDLE POWER sc.
Each and every light shall burn
from dusk until daylight, each and
every night during the term of the
contract; and shall be arc lights of
1000 candle-power equal in steadi-
ness and brilllancy to any 1000 cam
die power lamps in use in any City
in the United States. Each lamp
must average at least $50 Watts
Electric Power or potent al differ
ence of fifty volts between the ter
minals of lamps; said lamps requir-
ing a current of 9,5 Amperes, under
above conditions. The city reserv-
ing the right through their autho-
rized agents to make such tests as
may be necessary to determine the
amount OF light given.
DEFECTIVE LIGHTS.-A reduction
of the cost price of service of any
arc lamp will be made for such time
as said arc lamp may fail to be
lighted, during the designated
hours for such lighting. Inefficient
or defective arc lamps are to be re-
moved, and suitable and efficient
lamp substituted, upon reasonable
notice being given by the proper