The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-14
ELECTRIC LIGHT CONTRACT
4 NEW ONE PROPOSED BY UNIFIED
 ILLUMINATING COMPANY.
At n Reduction of Two and One-Half Cents Per Light Each Night-Wtth Q Reba te from January I, ,Last-.Arrange- ment to Make the Lighting Appropri~ ation Sufiice-Many Citizens Heard at Last Nights Hearing.
Last Nights Hearing.

The lamp committee last night held a
 hearing on the resolution authorizing it
 to secure from the United Illuminating
 company terms for contract for cleo
 tric arc lighting. A large number of
 citizens were present and Attorney
 James T. Moran appeared to represent presented a draft of contract which
 that company would enter into with the
 city. MT. Moran also handed to the
 committee the following letter from
 President English of the United 1llu-
 minating company:
 To the Honora ble Committee on Lamps
 of the City of New Haven:
 Conference.-The United Illuminating company submits herewith the draft of a contract for electric arc lighting which 1t is ready to enter into with the city of New Haven immediately upon it's acceptance by the court of common, council.
 1 The existing contract for electric arc | lighting does not expire until June 50, | 1902, and under it the city pays 25 cents | per night for each electric arc light, the number now in operation being 540, 1 In the new contract the cost per night | is reduced from 25 cents to 2212 cents, or from $91.25 to $82. .121a per year-a re- duction of $9.121a on each electric light
 The term of the new contract is four years from January 1, 1902-an exten- sion of three and onehalf years from the date of the expiration of the pres ent contract-the company agreeing to date the new contract back to January l. 1902-a saving to the city for the six months, on the present number of elec- tric lights and at the present rate, of $2, ,46375.
 Respectfully submitted,
 The United Illuminating Company.
 By James English,
 President.
 New Haven, March 13, 1902.
 The proposed contract provides that the company shall furnish for four years such number of electric arc lights as the city may require and order, the lights to be of 200 candle power, the same as are now furnished to the city, and each and every lamp to be furnish ed with 7-10 amperes current at 45 volts potential or SO1 watts of energy, the lamps to be kept burning every night in the year from dusk to daylight, extraordinary contingencies excepted. The company also agrees to locate lamps at such places and in such man. ner as may be determined by the lamp committee, the company to keep in re- pair poles, lamps wires. hoods, globes, etc, these to remain the property of the company.
 In consideration of this the contract provides that the city shall agree to or der $40 electric arc lights for every night from January 1 to June 30, 1902, $50 from July to December 1, 1902 and | each year thereafter at least fifteen ad- ditional arc lights, and shall pay for !, lights actually burning 221a cents per night. The city is now paying 25 cents per night for each light. The company | also offers, under the proposed new con tract to rebate to the city the excess paid for electric arc lighting from Jan uary. 1902, to the date of the execution of the new contract so that the cost for the electric arc lights in use by the city from and after January 1, 1902, shall be but 221s cents per light per night The llSnllhB dpBlppilcNip WdS cut pretty low by the board of finance fCr this year, and it is said that if this propos- ton of the Illuminating company Is &C., cepted, that is. for a rebate from Jan uary 1, the appropriation will suffice to keep all present lights going.
 The proposed contract further pro- vides that if any improvements in the method of electrical production shall be made during the term of the contract whereby the cost of producing electric arc lights as are contracted for shall be 'educed a proportionate reduction shall 1e made in the price agreed upon in the contract. It is also provided that if at my time on test it shall be found that he lights are furnished with less than 7-10 amperes current at 45 volts po- i ential, nothing shall be paid by the 'ity for any lights furnished in the cir uit where the current is found want ng. [ MT Moran explained the terms of the , proposed contract and said that under ' the city could keep the lights going or the rest of the year under the ap- ,ropriation made. . Anthony Carroll asked if later con- I ract was to be offered, as was done in 5 he case of the water contract and if | fterwards perpetual contract would % e submitted. | MT. Moran replied that no other con- h ract would be offered, and that he had othing up his sleeve"
 MT. Carroll objected to the contract Il Ie said that too much authority was h iven the lamp inspector in regard to h lectric lighting. n George M. Wallace said that it was II wonderful the way electric [, had been swindling the il Duntry in the last few years. He quot l figures to show how much more q heaply other cities secured electric T ghts than did New Haven. He said f, nat Springfield, Illinois, got them for a 50 each per year. and 2e00 candle DOW II r at that, while New Haven 1 200 can c' le power lights for s92 per year Ban or, Maine, for $75, and Lewiston, \, [aine, for $52, m MT. Carroll said that no opportunity iu as given here for any competition un- u ar the resolution on which the hearing hi as held. He said that the United IT. minating company was bound to get ., le contract, anyway. Q, In reply to a question by MT Wallace K amp Inspector Hopkins said that la'