Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-26

OnlCe OF the City Clerk Los Angeles,
California, February 70, 1905.
TO whom Il may concern:
Notice is hereby given that an appllca-
tlon has been made for q franchise grant
Ing the right to construct, and for n
period OF twenty-one CD years TO operate
and maintain, IN the City of Los An
seles, UNDERGROUND ana overhead verb wires
part OF an auxiliary fire alarm system,
And IL is proposed by said Council to
offer for sale and grant to the highest
bidder said franchise upon the terms and
conditions hereinafter mentioned.
That said franchise Is described as fol-
A franchise granting the right to con-
struct and Law down. and for the period
OF twenty-one years to operate and main
tain, underground cOnduits and wires en-
closed therein in those portions Of the
City OF Los Angeles known as the Con
duit Districts" and also the right to con-
struct and erect and for the period Of
twenty-one years to operate and main
tain, in those portions of tho said city
Of Los Angeles outside of the
Districts" i overhead wires re whether whether
erected upon and attached to poles be-
longing to other persons or corporations
or otherwise, also the right to transmit
through and aiOng said underground and
overhead wires fire alarm signals and
calls by means Of electricity and In con-
nectlon herewith TO construct, operate
nnd maintain all necessary service wires,
house connections office connections and
al other apparatus necessary to be used
auxiliary fire alarm system.
Ihat said franchise may be enjoyed and
SAID underground and overhead wires
used in connection with and as an in
tegral part of an auxiliary fire alarm
system. its apparatus and devices, which
said auxiliary fire alarm system, appar-
atus and devices must be, by the grantee
OF said franchise, connected with the said
city.s street fire alarm boxes; and said
auxiliary fire alarm system must be, by
the grantee of said franchise, maintained
and operated by said grantee in the mode
anu manner hereinafter provided for; and
said franchise can only be enjoyed, and
said underground and overhead wires
used, in connection with and as an In
tegral part of such auxiliary fire alarm
system, its apparatus and devices.
That 1t is proposed by said Council to
pass an Ordinance, contemporaneously
with the passage of an Ordinance granting
SAID franchise to such highest bidder CIV
ing and granting to such highest bidder
the grantee of said franchise, the privilege
TO connect an auxiliary fire alarm system,
its apparatus and devices. with the said
citys street fire alarm boxes, and, for
the period of twenty-one CID years. TO
maintain and operate such auxiliary fire
alarm system in connection with the said
city's street fire alarm system, provided,
however, that the said auxiliary con-
nections shall be made and maintained in
such manner as not to interfere with
the efficiency of said city's street fire
alarm boxes as at present or hereafter
established; and also provided that the
said auxiliary connections shall be made
under the supervision and to the salts
faction of the Chief Engineer of the Fire
Departs ent of the said City of Los An
geleS: and provided further that nothing
in said grant of said privilege to connect,
maintain and operate such auxiliary fire
alarm system, shall be construed as in
any wise to prevent the proper authorities
Of the said City of Los Angeles from
renewing. repairing, replacing or changing
any OF the said city'S street fire alarm
hcxes, but all of said work of renewing,
repairing, replacing and changing said
cityS street fire alarm boxes shall, If
10 off iac
IN such manner as not to obstruct or
1nJure or prevent the free use of said
auxiliary fire alarm system and its de-
wees; and provided further that the de-
vices and appliances used in such aux
iliary fire alarm system shall be such as
actuate the levers in the city's street fire
alarm boxes, and said auxiliary fire alarm
must not have any direct electrical con-
nection whatsoever with the said citys
tiie alarm circuits; and, in so far as the
city fire alarm system is concerned, the
said auxiliary fire alarm system must be
absolutely mountaineering in its, method
of turning in alarms through the city's
street fire alarm boxes.
That the said conduits and wires and
the said auxiliary fire alarm system shall
lie constructed. and at all times conducted
operated and maintained, and the said
FRANCHISE. shall, at all times, be exer-
cised and enjoyed. subject to each and
every ono Of the following terms and con-
dttions:
Tha. the condu!ts to be laid or main
tanned under the said franchise shall not
be larger in horizontal diameter than
i've inches; that said conduit shall be
made or iron pipe or vitrified thing, ce--
in concrete, and shall be thoroughly in
sulated; and that said conduit shall be
laid at all points, not less than two feet
below the established grade of the streets
under which said conduit is laid; that said
conduit shall be located in conformity
with the regulations that the City Council
may prescribe; that said conduit shall
be constructed In a manner satisfactory
to the City Engineer of said city; and
that all excavations for laying and re-
pairing said conduit shall be done in such
q manner as not to interfere with the
free use OF the streets by the public, ex-
cept such temporary interference as may
be necessarily incident to the proper
prosecution Of said work; that all exca-
vations shall be made and refilled in
strict compliance with the Ordinances of
said city which may be in force at the
time OF the performance of said work,
and that the grantee of this franchise or
his assigns shall make such deposits of
money with the City Treasurer as may lie,
from time to time, required from per-
sens making excavations in the streets of
the said city, for the purpose of insurinss
the restoration of all streets to good and
perfect condition along said excavation.
That traps or manholes may be con-
structed along the lines of any Of said
conduits for the purpose of affordng ac-
cess thereto, provided that said traps or
manholes shall be located and constructed
to the satisfaction of the City Engineer
of said city; said traps or manhoes to
DC SO capped ana covered as to be flush
with the surface of the street and not
to. interfere in any way with the use of
said street for travel or traffic.
That in the event that change of
grade, the laying of any sewer or the max
ing of any other Improvement in any of
the streets along and under which
said conduits may be laid shall, in the
opinion of the Street Superintendent of
said city, render necessary any change
Ia the position Of said conduit, the grantee
of said franchise or his assigns shall shift
or move, the same at his or their own
cost and expense. in conformity with
the instructions and to the satisfaction
OF the said Street Superintendent, and in
case the said grantee or his assigns shall
fail to comply with the instructions given
therefor by said official for ten days after
service of said Instructions upon the said
grantee or mis-. assigns. or upon the man
ager or agent in Los Angeles of said
grantee or his assigns, he, the said off,
cial, may do the work required in said
notice to be done and keep an itemized
account of the cost thereof which said
grantee or his assigns, by the acceptance
of said franchise, agrees TO pay immed-
lately upon said account being presented
to said grantee or his assigns or to such
manager mr. agent MS Anoa1as