The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-11-11
BOARD MEETING
Water 4 Light Cos, Servico ;,
or Lack Of Service, Dis.
cussed.
NO ELECTION HELD.
Nashville & Columbia Interurban
Railway Asks An Extension
of Franchise.

The Beard of Mayor and Aldermen
met Thursday night in regular session
hut little business of importance wal
disposed of.
On motion the police headquarter,
were ordered moved from the Brown
building to the city hall.
Chairman Nichols of the Street Com
mittee, was allowed $3.50, 90 for further
street work
81 AldeImanCameron raised the ques
S tion of how often the Columbia Water
q Light Go was required to flush the
fire hydrants and asked whose duty 1t
IS to see that the work is DONE He
stated that at the Dooely fire in South
Columbia Wednesday night the hy-
drants were so filled with mud that no
pressure and little water could he ne
! cured and that if the breeze had not
beer following in the opposite direction
another house would have burned
Asked how high the file company
was able TO throw water at the Dooley
fire, he replied, possibly twenty feet.
Alderman Dale arose and asked if
any member of the Board had ever
read the contract beween the city and
the Columbia Water & Light Co.
More of the other seven aldermen ac-
knowledged having INDUCED in such
light reading. Mr.. Dale then stated
that he had read the contract and that
1t was the most one-sided document
no had ever perused; that the Water &
Light Go. bound themselves to do
practically nothing and the city was
bound to do the paying
Alderman Carpenter said if the
Water and Light Go. contracted to do
nothing they were conscientiously car
rying out their contract About that
time the electric lights went out, The
gas still burned. SO Alderman Harlan
was instructed to see that the fire hy-
drants were flushed after every Use in
the river.
Maj. W. j. Whitthorne appeared
before the Board and presented a reso-
luton fof passage extending the fran
chise of the Nashville & Co'u nbia
InteruIban railway another two years.
This franchie will terminate December
9th, unless action is taken extending
1t.
Mai. Whitthorne brought no new
promises from the InteIurban compar y
as to when they propose to build the
line OF when they would really begin
constructor in earnest. He stated that
|
pected difficulties and delays, but he
thought had about reached the point
where they could secure capital for
the enterprise. The fist capitalist he
said, cousin of President Mckinley.
went over the line and was preparing
to put up the money. He had lived
a life of total abstinence till he came
to Tennessee, but tried some of Ten
nessee's whiskey while here and was
never sober after that, dying few
months later.
The Board thought the extension of
this franchise too important matter
to be decided hastily, SO Aldermen
Dale, Carpenter and Nichols and City
Atty. Smiser were appointed COM
mittee to investigate the matter anil to
see whether the company asking the
extension we're able to build the road.
The committee will report at the next
The question of electing Recorder
and City Marshall was raised,
but 1t was decided that a legal
election could not be held till the first
meeting night in December.