The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-20

Last evening at an adjourned meet
Ing of the city council an ordinance
was passed to the effect that any tele-
phone company in the city, now hav-
Ing franchise, or any telephone COM
ipany, that may hereafter have fran
chise, shall build underground If they
desire to reconstruct their lines. The
ordinance, which was presented Mon
day evening at the regular council
meeting, was presented in an amend
ed form last evening and passed by a
unanimous vote.
The officials of both telephone COM
panies operating in this city were
present and as a result of the adoption
of the ordinance the Home Telephone
People were greatly elated. On the
other hand the Central Union people
made no effort to conceal their cha
grin and left the council chamber i'm
medately after the passage of the
measure. The Central Union people
state that they will ignore the ordi-
nance, and 1t Is the general belief
that they will take the matter to the
courts.
The Ordinance In Full.
The ordinance In it's amended from
as passed last evening is as follows:
Section 1. Be it ordained that
when any telephone company now
having franchise in the city of
Richmond, or that may hereafter OBJ
tain franchise In said city, shall de-
sire to reconstruct, re-equip or sub,
~toot;a1I,, ra i,,noryo itS talanbppa Syc.
tenn in said city, it shall be and is
hereby required to conform to the fol
lowing conditions and regulations, to-
wit:
Clause /. All such company's over
head wires on Main street from Sec
ond street to Fourteenth street shall
be placed in underground conduits
and all it's poles on Main street be
tween said terminal points, shall be
removed therefrom.
Clause 2. Said conduits shall be
laid in Main street from Second street
to Fourth street in the first alley
north of Main street to Fourteenth
street and shall be laid iI the north
Or south side of said alley. (There
is no alley north of Main street from
Second street to Fourth street and il
will be necessary to place conduits or
Main street from these two spurs)
The Depth of Ducts.
Clause 3. The ducts shall be ol
standard vitrified tile or wood fibre ol
composition as may be approved by
the Board of Public Works and the
City Civil Engineer of the said City
of Richmond. The said conduits
shall be laid at depth of from feet
to Az feet beneath the surface of the
ground. No injury shall be done tc
any shade trees or property OF any
person or persons or to any public oi
private sewers, water and gas pipes
or other structures heretofore laid by
or under authority of the city. AL
said work shall be done under super
vision of the Board of Public Works
and the City Civil Engineer.
Free Duct for the City.
Clause A. Every such company
shall put in free of charge to said city
one duct in each conduit for the sepa
rate use of said city for it's fire alarm
and police telephone system and shall
furnish and place in said underground
conduit system necessary wires will
which 10 change the present fire
alarm and police telephone system, 81
as to make it conform to the under
ground system and relieve the Mair
street pole line. all of which shall be
done free of cost and expense to the
said City of Richmond. Every sucl
company shall also reserve for the us'
of the city's fire alarm or police
alarm wires. space upon the tops o