The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
A new ELECTRIC
COMPANY IN FIELD.
KIICHLI co. WOULD COMPETE
WITH GENERAL ELECTRIC.
Alderman Gerber Introduces an Or
dinance Granting a Thirty Year Fran
chise for the Use Of Minneapolis
Streets Public Lighting Bids for
the Ensuing Year Are Received and
Opened.

Another electric light and power
company is seeking to enter the local
field to compete for share of the mo
nopoly at present enjoyed by the MIN
neapolis General Electric company. At
the meeting Of the city council last
sented an ordinance granting a thirty
year franchise to the Minnesota Power
& Trolley company to erect poles and
string electric wires in the streets OF
! Minneapolis for the purpose Of distrib-
uting electricity for light and power.
This company was organized by Former
Alderman j. L. Kiichli ostensibly to
build electric lines from this city to
Shakopee and Anoka, and has secured
control Of the waterpower at Coon
broader than was at first supposed.
Alderman Gerber said that one of the
first effects of the franchise, # granted
would be to reduce the cost Of electric
lighting in this city by $4,000, annu-
special committee consisting Of the
committee on roads and bridges, ordl'
nances and the special committee ap'
Slider a franchise for the Minneapolis
General Electric company.
street-Lighting Bids.
| MUCH INTEREST was mAnl1eSCe0 1ast
evening in the opening Of bids fol
street lighting for the year 1905. There
was no change from the present rate
except that the price for incandescent
gas lamps was raised Al cents per lamp
! The bidder says that his attorney made
an error last year in quoting the pres
ent rate. 49,. t,sfg
The bids are as follows: -,
Minneapolis Gas Light company, ga
equal to the quality supplied to it's private
consumers IS cents a 1000 cubic feet.
Minneapolis General Electric company
on moonlight schedule, $S2 per lamp pc
year; on all night schedule, 1874 a year. =
For Incandescent Gas eLamps-Patter
son Street Lighting company, successo
to the present contractor, for $500 lights
$3.50 year, and for $500 lights, $13.4O
American Development company, for $50
, lights $14, for $500 lamps $3.50. A bi
signed by one D. A. Simmons proposed t
do the incandescent lighting for $11
year, but the bid did not inclose the cit
! treasurer's receipt for $500 as required b
cred. All the bids were referred to tn
council committee on gas. =
: Loop Plan Brought Up.
e Alderman s. E. Adams called up tn
y odd matter Of another trolley car loo
t to relieve the congestion Of traffic a
Washington and Hennepin avenue
=, The ordinance was introduced som
= months ago and was in a fair way t
u pass when one of the aldermen sugges
= ed that the street railway company
. return for obtaining possession Of a
9 the down town streets not already occ1
pied, 81 / uld widen the Washington av
u nue. bridge, when all interest in tt
r ordinance disappeared. The resolutie
J. committee on railroads with the aide
t men of the fourth and fifth wards Ode
II Emil Schaeffer was refused permi
sion to run theater at 208 Washingte
avenue, the old dive formerly known
IL the Columbia theater. p. ,-...
d A Check on Fake Auctions. =.
r. The Powers ordinance, vesting II
a. authority to issue auctioneers hcens
ic in the city council, was passed. IT
purpose Of this ordinance is to provl
Of for an inquiry into the reputation Of t
III applicants for licenses and to drive o
=, Of the business that class of fakirs, wi
:, make robbers dens of the auction sho
al al on lower Nicollet and Washington av
- Enues. ~ a...- .s.::- ~ y -
s, $. Alderman Clark did not present /
e liquor license ordinance as was expecte
Il Among the visitors at the meetil
were Aldermen elect w. E. Satterlee,
IN the Second ward; Perry Starkweath
re-. fourth ward; P. B. Walker, Jr., eigh
" ward; Frank H. Cashier, ninth ward;
nd j. August, tenth ward and w.
. Fh1a twa1fth ward '-,-.'.- -.