Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-19
STREET RAILWAY
FRANCHISE.

Messrs. Frawley, Bundy & Wilcox, law
yerS of Eau Claire, representing east
ern capital have incorporated the Wis
consin River Electric Railway Company
and have secured options on the dam,
water power, street railway system and
electric lighting plant at Merrill, and
on the entire plant of the Wausau Elec-
tic Company here. Their clients, after
looking over the report, wired Mr..
Wilcox on Tuesday that the Merrill
Wausau proposition was approved and
with a reasonable railway franchise at
Wausau, was certain to go through and
to hasten matters This means, if the
franchise, which has been applied for
here, is passed that the Merrill and
Wausau electric interests will be vested
in one company, that an electric line
will be built between the two cities, and
that the surplus power, of which there
will be considerable, will be for rent at
reasonable rates as it is the policy of
the investors to build up with factories
so far as they can, the towns into which
their lines run, so increasing their own
business.
Messrs. Frawley, Bundy & Wilcox
are the attorneys who carried out, for
the Boston capitalists to the inter urban
project between Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Falls, which is now on an excel
lent financial basis. They also are
handling similar project at Beloit and
GAINESVILLE at present.
Mr.. Wilcox was here several days last
week and says that he received encour-
agement on all sides from citizens of
Wausau In order that the citizens of
Wausau may fully post themselves as to
what the Wisconsin River Electric Com
pany siS asking of the city of Wausau,
the PILOT publishes the petition in full.
The petition, which will be acted up
on at the next meeting of the city coun
Gil on Monday evening, April 1st, is as
follows:
City OF WAUSAU, WISCONSIN,:
The wisconsin River Electric Railway Com
pany hereby applies for irauchise from said
city and presents herewith, as part of such
application. q franchise containing the sub
stance OF the privileges asked for; and herewith
files this application and said franc ise so ap-
piled for. with the City Clerk Of said city, for the
action of said Common Council theron.
Dated March 4. 1901.
WISCONSIN RIVER ELECTRIC Railway Co.,
BY Roy p. WILCOX,
Secretary and Treasurer.
AN ORDINANCE Granting to the Wisconsin
River Electric Railway Company the use OF
the streets. public ways and bridges of the
City of Wausau, Wisconsin, for the coh-
sIruction, maintenance and operation of an
Electric Railway.
The Mayor and Common Ouncil of the CITY of
Wausau do ordain as follows
Section l. The Wisconsin River E ectric
aiway Company, its successors and assigns,
are hereby authorized to enter upon, construct.
maintain and Opera.e single or double track
railway, with the necessary turn-oputs and
switches upon the streets highways and public
ways and bridges in said city, subject to all
general provisions of stature law or here
after in force and applicable thereto and 10 such
reasonable rules am regulations respecting such
streets, bridges, highways and public ways the
10 cation of tracks and the operation of cars as
said common council may from time to time
enact.
Section 2. The said Wisconsin River Electric
Railway Com any, its successors and assigns ere
hereby granted TIE right tu use upon the whole
or any portion of its tracks the same hereby
auth0 Hed, electricity as motive power supplied
to the cars by mans OF an overhead trolley
wire, the electrical circuit being completed by
the rails of the road su tably connected at their
ends, or G. injected with a supplementary ground
wire; and tor this purpose said company, lis
successors aud assigns, are hereby expressly al
thorlzed and empowered to lay and connect said
ground circuit as aforesaid, and to erect and
maintain in and along all of the said public
streets aud highways upon which the tracks of
said company are hereby authorized to be con-
structed such posts, brackets, wires and fixtures
as may be required to support and MAINTAIN the
overhead trolley wire aforesaid. For such main
tenance and support either horizontal or SIS
wires extending across the streets or bracket
arms projecting over the track, as said company
may deem more suitable may be employed All
posts or poles used in such construction shall be
No. selected cedar, not less than twenty two
feet in length with not less than six inch tops
Such poles shall be placed in or adjacent to the
line OF the curb of the sidewalk or other
wise and at such place as the city engineer
shall direct. and in such manner as not un-
reasonably TO impede public travel and to set at
least six feet in the ground. All poles placed
on the streets In the plated portion of said city
by said company shall be kept painted, the first
six feet next to the ground to be black and the
remainder white; and the cross-wires and braca-
cts, as the case may be, for the support of the
trolley wire shall be attached to said poles at
such height as TO maintain said trolley wire at
every point not less than sixteen feet above the
surftce of the street. All such posts wires and
fixtures shall be maintained by said company at
all times iii good order and condition, and the
be>t and most approved devices, guards and
means shall be used and employed to protect the
trolley and other wires from becoming or being
dangerous. And he said cOmrany shall, at all
times during the life OF this franchise. use and
emp Oy the safest, best and most approved de-
vices and Appliances and means 10 prevent in
jary by the escape Of electricity, to gas, water
and other pipes in said city on said streets and
along and upon which said railway shall be built
and maintained
Animal and other motive power except steam
may be use W tn or without electrical power in
the general operation of said railway such ami
NAL power is authorized to be used only during
such time or times as the operation the eot by
electricity or other power shall be interrupted or
suspended by reason of acci tent to the cleo
trical equipment or power plant or other like
cause.
The authority and permission herein granted
are subject to the following terms and restric-
tiOnS
ial The track shall be Of standard guage and
shall be constructed of sufficient, suitable iron