Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-09
CUB COMMUTE FAV0Rs 1T.
VIII Recommend Its Adoption II It
Proves Satisfactory TO the Larger.
Company-Petition Presented Last
Night Signed by 7e4 Subscribers. 8

] Messrs. Wnittet, Minor, Phillips, and
1 Huber, the subcommittee Of the Commit
tee on Streets, to which was referred the
petition Of the Richmond Telephone Com
pany for permission to dispose OF and
merge their plant with the Southern Bell
Telephone Company. met last night to
consider and report on the subject, and
to draft the proper ordinance for the
] purpose.
| City Attorney Pollard was present to
I advise with the committee, as were also
J, Superintendent hipley, Of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company. and PRESIDENT
Warner Moore, of the Richmond Tele-
! phone Company.
There were two different drafts Of the
! prospective ordinance presented by the
| city attorney, and the telephone compa-
MES. respectively, and their provisions
were discussed, canvassed and amended
! for two hours or more, the committee
finally deciding to recommend the meas.
ure that resulted from this prolonged
threshing for passage in the event that
it was satisfactory to the Southern Bell
Telephone Company. The ordinance will
be sent to New York for the approval Of
| the latter company, and in case it OBJ
tains the necessary endorsement, it will
| be reported and recommended to the full
| Committee on Streets for adoption by
| Council.
ne proposed ordinance, as finally
! amended and perfected, Is as follows:
PROPOSED ORDINANCE.
An ordinance to authorize the Rich
styled the Richmond STANDARD Telephone
| Company or its successors or assigns,
to sell all its telephone lines in the
mond or elsewhere in. the city Of Rich
hluuu, anu us Utner property, or any
part thereof. to the Southern Bell 3Tele-
phone and Telegraph COMPANY, and TO
and Telegraph Company to acquire,
maintain. and operate the same under
It's franchise from the city Of Richmond
and to relieve each Of the said ompanies,
ties. claims, conditions, penalties; and
forfeitures which have accrued. or may
accrue under the provisions Of an ordi-@
mond. approved December s, 1855. entitled
AN ordinance to allow the Richmond
Standard Telephone Company to con-
exchange, or under any other ordinance
of said city. and to give the consent Of
the city of Richmond to the extinguish-,
ment of the franchises of the Richmond
of said sale.
Be it ordained by the, Council of the
city of Richmond
l. That the Richmond Telephone Com
Standard Telephone. Company its sue
cessors or assigns. is or are hereby au-4
thorized to sell. assign. transfer. and con-
Telegraph Company all the lines of tele-
phone now owned by said Richmond Tele-
phone Company located in or upon the
mond, or elsewhere in the city Of Rich
mond. and all or any parts of its other
property. And the said Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company is :
har Nv oy,fh 80 ~ $o1o 4
phone lines and other property, and to
maintain and operate said lines, or such
parts of them as it may desire. in the
eng se O. cty Of
a part of its telephone system, in the
same manner as though the said lines
had been !. originally CONSTRUCTED by it,
nance of the Council of the city of Rich
mond which became a law on October
the Is, 1901, entitled IAN ordinance .au-
and Telegraph Company to use the pubic
roads, streets. and highways of the city
OF Richmond. Virginia, for the purpose of
placing poles and fixtures to support
electrical conductors there ION. and the
placing Of subways for electrical con-
ductors under the same. and regulating
the manner Of using the streets for such
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company shall. on or before October II,
1903 remove from the streets and alleys
wires so to be acquired by it as may be
located within the section of the city
designated as the underground district,
in the before mentioned ordinance of Oc-
placed on said poles by other persons or
corporations shall be removed therefrom
in due time to allow the removal Of said
poles boS on or before sn October n 1903 And
or corporations should not be removed
until after October II, 1903. then the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company shall remove the poles so to be
acquired by it, and not already removed
within three months after the removal of
such wires.
and property shall have been SO acquired
by the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, the said Richmond Tele-
phone Company and its successors or as
discharged of and from, and said South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company shall hold said telephone lines
all liabilities, claims, obligations. duties,
demands, forfeitures, or penalties that
have accrued. or may or might accrue,
said city is or may. become entitled to
claim the benefit of. or which are or
might be in any wise enforceable, undtr.
or by virtue of, the provisions of an ordi-
mond. approved December the 6, 1885. en-
titled ..An ordinance to allow the Rich
mond Standard Telephone Company to
and operate telephone plant
or exchange" or Under any other ordi-
nance of said city; provided however.
that In maintaining and operating any |
part Of the said lines of telephone so to !
be acquired by the said Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company, it |
shall be subject to the provisions in 1ela-
ton to the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company, which went into
effect October Is. 1901.
3. So soon as the telephone lines above
have been transferred to, and |
acquired by. the Southern Bell Telephone |
and Telegraph Company. all the franz |
chises heretofore granted by the city. Of |