The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-27
TO IMPROVE
 CITY WIRING Several Measures Present
 cd to Council. A SPECIAL MEETING HELD Proposes to Condemn Poles on Dexter Avenue. ResoIutien, Directs City Attorney te Draw Ordinsnce for Underground wires--Lawycr to Consider
 Validity of Bends

The Montgomery City Council at a special meeting yesterday evening took steps to better regulate the electric wiring in Montgomery.
 The meeting drew officials of the light companies to the Council Cham Der and they were interested listeners in the lobby during the thirty minutes tho Aldermen were in session The Council met at 6 o'clock. Those present were vice-President Forbes, Aldermen Coins, Griffith, Gunter, Jack son. Lobman, Roemer. Ryan. Ruth, Strauss and TeaEue.
 The clerk read the call for a special meeting to consider an ordinance regu- lating the stringing of wires in the city.
 Wiring Ordinance.
 Vice-President Forbes called Alder man Jackson to the chair and intro duced the wiring ordinance.
 The measure amends Section "A of the City Code so as to provide that on each pole of any electric light, power. street railway, telephone or telegraph company, used jointly by two or more such companies, there shall be desig- mated a special zone or zones within which the wires used by and belong ing to companies engaged in the same character of business shall be strung; and when two or more of such compa- nfes. engaged in the same character of business, have their wires strung upon the same pole. each company shall be allotted a particular space within the said zone or zones, and shall, as far as practicable. confine its wires strung on the pole, within such allotted space.
 Within the zone or zones designated for use by electric light companies or electric power companies the ordinance provides that there shall be allotted separate and distinct spaces for string ing such high potential wires and low potential wires; and the high potential wires of all electric light companies and all electric power companies shall be strung above the low potential wires of such compahes which may be placed upon the pole, within the zone or zones designated and all the wires of electric light companies or electric power companies strung upon any pole shall be confined within the respective spaces so allotted within the designat- ed zone or zones; provided, t4.--- upon poles upch which transformers are placed the high potential wires may be carried into and through the low po- tential wires for connection with the transformers, in which cases the high potential wires shall be af1xed to each cross arm which 1t passes in such man. ner as to prevent 1t coming in con-
 
 the additional protection of circular loom. or such material affording equal protection.
 The zone is to be measured from the top of the poles downward, and the utmost zone on each pole shall, at all times be reserved for the use of the city for the stringing of its fire alarm or police electric wires. Upon poles which are used by only one electric light company or electric power com pany the high potential wires of such company are to be placed and strung above it's low potential wires; the low potential wires being located as far down the pole as practicable.
 On motion of Alderman Forbes the ordinance was referred to the Commit tee on Electrical Control and Fran chises 10 report at a regular or special meeting
 Poles on Dexter Avenue.
 Alderman Gunter introduced a reso- Jution condemning all poles on Dexter Avenue and Court Square and direct ing that new poles be erected at the expense of the several companies under direction of the City Electrician.
 Alderman Forbes moved that the res olntion be referred to the Committee on Electrical Control and Franchises fo be considered with his wiring ordi- nance.
 The motion was adopted. The resolution was as follows:
 whereas, The number of electric light. telephone and telegraph poles situated on Dexter Avenue is unsightly, and the network of wires is dangerous to human life, be it
 "Resolved by the City Council of Montgomery, That all poles upon said Avenue as far up as McDonough Street, and all poles on Court Square and on Commerce Street be, and the same are hereby. condemned and ordered to be removed, except as hereaiter pFo- Svided. .aThat the City Electrician be, and he is hereby, directed to have such poIes as may be necessary erected on ssid streets for the carrying of wires thereon.
 "That said poles are to be of the very best kind and character, and sufficient to carry safely such Welshts as may be placed upon them.
 "That any poles on said streets or .o,,,re as may be suitable, may be ,'sad bv the City Electrician, compen- sotion being paid to the owners.
 saThat the telegraph, telephone, cleo tric light and motive power wires rhau be arranged on said poles in such manner as to pe tiIe ieN'' " human life = .1.
 
 o,,+ton heinz to remove the unsightly Onies and dangerous poles on said Streets and to inaugurate complete system of electric and other wiring I1 the city of Montgomery.
 "Be 1t further resolved, That the costs of erecting such poles shall be borna hv the several companies using tbem and divided as may be ascer- tatned by the City Electrician to be In proper proportion to benehts'
 That as soon as such poles are erected upon said streets that the sew eral companies shall immediately re- move their wires from the several poles now used to those to be erected, and on such places or parts as they may be directed to be put by the City Elec- trician
 That the City Electrician be. and he is hereby. required to ipaugurate the best system as the circumstances Will permit"
 Underground Wires.
 \ resolution by Alderman Jackson rcad. directing the City Attorney t, pare an ordinance looking to un- derground wires in Montgomery. It was referred to the Committee on Elec- trical Control and Franchises.
 By unanimous consent, Alderman Lobman introduced a resolution declar-