The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-03
GETS WHAT IT ASKED
ARssEMBLYs PASSES THE ORDI-
NANCE DESIRED BY GAS LIGHT
.s COMPANY
ALBRIGHT ALONE OBJECTS
Proposals for Lighting the City Re-
1ceived and Referred to Commit
tee-Mfssissippi valley Telephone
Company Asks and Secures More
Zine for Getting Its Plant i'm OPP
GRAFTON.

The featurag of the assembly meeting
last night was TIE protest made by AS
! semblyman Afbreeht against the passage
of the resoltaions allowing the Edison
Electric LiglH ard Power company the
use of certain sfFeets for conduits in
which to bring tie electric power from
Apple River Falls into the city.
Mr.. Albrecfit said it was inconceivable
to him how it was possible for an intelli-
gent body of men In an enlightened COM
munity to vote. away rights worth hun
dreds of thousands of dollars without any
remuneration 1t was votes of this kind
which made the actions of legislative
bodies in this city and country byword.
The resolution. simply granted a right in
perpetuity to the company Because a
former council had betrayed the interests
OF the city in the past was no reason that
the present council should continue the
work. The city was today and had since
the territorial days been paying exhOrbi-
tant rates to the st. Paul Gas company
for gas and electric lights, as well as
/ for the gas used in pubic buildings. Since
1881 the city had paid the gas company
$4l, O00 In lntereaC alone, and yet, when rep
resentatiVes or the company were asked
II the cost of lighting was 10 be reduced,
no answer could be obtained. The gas
company WassSthe Edison company to
which the franchise was being granted.
MI. Benson al gued Inau Jne company
had been gfanted the rights 1t now pos
sesseG unaer tne 1So6 ordinance, ana the
present c0uHc4iscoufd not ,cnanse them, or
demand eAact1onsS 1t was dep.orabie, but
couid NOT -be femedied.
/ The leSOIlI3i04 SUht,n WAS unfinished in
| full III the 6i4 b OF eseerday, was
passed by. a Vote OF to Z, MeSSrS. AL
breeht and Thom pson being the onIy ones
to vote against it,
Proposals for lighting the city with
gas, gaSelIne ana electric lights We're
openea, aIlG. referred the Joint COM
nllttee on streets Trom botn bUo1es. The
st. Paul Gas company obJected to the
Specftlcat lions for gas and electr1c lighting,
and suggested that the specifications be
modineu, so as4to combine the proposition
for gas and electric lighting under one
set OF specifications. Ii this was done
and the minimum number OF gas lamps
fixed at $500 the electric lights, as now
supplied, and the same places, the COM
pany would agree 90 supply gas for pubic
buildings at $I5a per thousand feet: Arc
lights at $S4 per year and gas lamps at
SIS per year.
The American Development company Of
fered to light the present gasoline lamps
and furnish the burners at $I.38 per lamp
per mouth. For c inGandescent gasoline
| lamps of sixty camille power, from / 500 to
5000 would he furnished for $2.4I 2-3 per
lamp per month; from 300 to 6U0, for $2.5o
per month, and from 600 to 600 at $2.45
per month.
che Carbon Light and Power company
bid 81 .4034 per lamp per month for gaso-
line lamps, and put in no bids for incan-
descent lamps.
The 1WeiShbach Street Lighting eompa-
| ny offered to furnish incandeseent gaso-
line lamps, 1880 to 5000, at $1-5S1-3 per
lamps per month 1890 to 900 at s2,64 7-12 per
MONTH and 500 to- 1000 at $3.50 5-12 per
month.
Another proposition of the company was
TO furnish gas lamp burners and light
he gas lamps on the posts now UP with
Nelshbach burners for $3.50 per lamp per
nenth, stheS gas TO be obtained from the
gas company.
Enser the bids the city will have to
pay double what has been paid during the
PAST year for. gasoline lighting. AT pies
eHt the price Is $S.24 per lamp per year,
and the lowest bid, that of the American
Development company is $16.56 for the
present style of lamp.
The ordinance requiring the MISSISSIPPI
pf Valley Telephone company to have In
operation 100 phones by Nov 10, 1899,
was amended so as to allow the company
until Jan. 10. 1900, to have the telephones
in operation. The company was also al
| lowed to substitute another surety bond
in the sum of $4,000 for the one now on
/ file. The amended ordinance was passed
under a Suspension of the rules by a
unanimous vote.
The city engineer was instructed, I'M
der a resolui1on,C to replank the roadway
of the University bridge, the planking to
be purchased under the contract with the
Gribben Lumber company.
| Mr.. Dix presented an amendment to the
peddlers' ordinance, providing that no
| peddler shall allow vehicles to remain at
any point for a longer period that fifteen
minutes, or after the police shall order
the same removed. The ordinance went
10 the committee on license
Mayor Kiefer notified the council that
he had received a letter from President
Hamlin, of the Commercial club, inelos-
ing check for $50 with which to secure
the city a membership IN the League of
American Municipalities. resolution
was passed thanking the Commercial club
for the gift.