Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-28
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Notice ~ sale Of franchise to Com
struct and Maintain Underground and
overhead Wires In Connection With
nnd ~ Part Of an Auxiliary Fire
ncIce.
Office OF the City Clerk. Los Angeles,
70 whom II may concerp;
Notice u hereby given that a n applica-
on has been made for franchise grant
TIod Of twentyon eOc rs Yea Years to opera
~ maintain, In the City of Los AM
eles, underground and overhead wires
Pc used In connection with and as a
'2& OF an auxiliary fire alarm system,
r 1T IS proposed by said Council to
Tor sale and grant to the highest
1cr said franchise upon the terms and
nditions hereinafter mentioned.
That said franchise Is described as fol-
A franchise granting the right to con-
truct and Jaw down, and for the period
IN ,tWenty-one Years to operate and main
aha,ss underground cconduits and wires en- en-
SsVltX OF Los Angeles known as the Con
quit Districts" and also the right to con.
tt wer,tv and erect, and for the period , OF
tain, in those portions Of the said City
Il. Los angeles outside OF tle
pstricts Rn Sysrhead wires ire wHetRer
erected upon and attached to poles be-
longing to other persons or corporations
through and ajOng said underground and
overhead wires fire alarm signals and
calls by means of electricity and In con-
nection Herewith to construct, operate
gnd maintain all necessary service wires,
house connections, office connections and
AZ other apparatus necessary to be used
4 " c0nnectipn with and as a part Of an
AUXILIARY fire alarm system.
Inat said franchise may be enjoyed and
said underground and overhead wires
used in connection with and as an Inc
NJ tegral part of an auxiliary fire alarm
u system, It's apparatus and devices, which
atus and devices must be, BY the grantee
OK said franchise connected with the said
cty,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
and manner. hereinafter provided for; and
faid underground and overhead wires
lsed. In connection with and as an in
tegral part of such auxiliary fire alarm
1system, its apparatus and devices.
Ihat 1T is proposed by said Council to
Hass an Ordinance. contemporaneously
with the passage of an Ordinance granting
said franchise to such highest bidder, CIV
ipg and granting to such highest bidder
the grantee of said franchise, the privilege
TO- connect an AUXILIARY fire alarm SYSTEM
city's 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-
HectlOIS snail pc MADE ana maintained In
such q manner as not to interfere. with
the efficiency of said city's street fire
alarm boxes as at present or hereafter
said auxiliary connections shall be made
under the supervision and to the salts
factton of the Chief Engineer of the Fire
pepar ;ment of the said City of Los An
geles; and provided further that nothing
IN said gram. 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
~ b sd or rs
boxes, but ali Of said work of renewing,
repairing, replacing and changing said
tiiyS street fire alarm boxes shall, II
possible. BE done by the city authorities
in such manner as not to opstruct or
muir or ,p,event the free use. OF san
wees; and provided further that the de-
vices. and appliances used in sucn aux
llary TIRE alarm system shall be such as
alarm boxes, and said auxiliary fire alarm
must not have any direct electrical con-
nection whatsoever with the said citys
fire alarm circuits; and, in so far as the
eity's flfe alarm system is concerned the
SAID AUXILIARY fire alarm system must be
aeoslt.tely non-interfering in its method
OF turning in alarms through the citys
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-
every ono of the following terms and con-
ditionS; 1e-t
THAI the condu!ts to be laid or main
tanned under the said franchise shall not
be larger in horizontal diameter than
hvs, inches; thac said conduit shall be
made or iron pipe or vitrified thing. ce-
ment lined pipe or wood fiber pipe, laid
IN concrete, and shall be thoroughly in
sulated; and that said conduit shall be
laid at all points, not less than. two feet
hel0W Org of no OF
under which said conduit is laid; that said
conduit shall be located in conformity
may prescribe; that said conduit shall
be constructed in manner satisfactory
70 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-
be necessarily incident to the proper
prosecution of said work; that all exca-
'vations shall be made, and ,refilled IN
said city which may be in force at the
time or the performance of said. work,
md that the grantee of this, franchise or
y lis assigns, shall make such deposits of
IN oney with the City Treasurer as may be,
from time to time, required from per-
sens making excavations in the streets of
tho said city, for the purpose of insurins
the restoration Of all streets to good and
perfect condition along said excavation.
traps sonr or tha 6ss may be ss
conduits, for the purpose of affording &C
cess thereto, provided that said traps or
4 manholes shall be located and constructed
IN conformity with the, instructions and
TO the satisfaction of the City Engineer
of said city: said traps or manholes to
be, 50 capped and 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 t;affic.
= That in the event that a 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
ii. 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 OIL. 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
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