Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-25
CLUSTERLIGHTSTO
GLOW NEXT MON TIL
AFTER YEAR OF DARKNESS ALL
is IN READINESS
Edison Company Makes Favorable
Offer and Merchants Will Sign
for Year, ignoring Municipal
plant
Pasadena Agency.
1914 East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main Io1.

PASADENA. Sept 24.-This evening
President G. d Sargent Of the Pasa-
dena Merchants association announces
that the electric cluster posts, whlcn
have been i'm place all through the busl-
ress and a par. of the residential dis.
trict for nearly a year VIII be llShteu
the first part of next month. ThiS VIII
be the most cheering Of cheerful news
to both the merchants and the every
day residents OF Pasadena, for II mas
looked for months as though the light
ing of these posts would go over for'
perhaps, another year
This afternoon a proposition was re-
ceived from the Edison Electric COM
pany to light the cluster posts for the
next year President Sargent says that
the offer is an especially reasonable
one. as the Edison Electric company
is particularly desirous of having the
posts lighted at once. This offer was
at once accepted and the lighting will
commence as soon as the fixtures on
the posts can be connected with the
feed wires.
One thing will be a disappointment
to the people of the city and that will
be the way these feed wire connections
will have to be made. The Edison
company, naturally, would not put In
an underground conduit for the feed
wires unless it received contract for
This the committee was not in a posi-
tion to consider, and so one year con-
tract with overhead connections will
be the rule.
The whole matter of lighting the
posts would have been settled many
months ago had not the administration
started out to build municipal electric
light plant. AS soon as this project
was broached there was nothing for
the merchants to do but wait and see
what sort of a proposition the city
would max. if the bonds for the NUM-
cipal plant were voted, Then came the
bonds and negotiations with the Edison
company were practically dropped to
see what the city would do.
Before any agreement with the city
was reached the Edison company start
ed its suit to prevent the sale of the
bonds and this left the mechants in
the position of being ready to figure
with the municipal plant, when sud
denly the date upon which this Fplant
would be built was showed ahead for
an indefinite period.
Negotiations with the Edison COM
pany were then resumed with the re-
suit already stated. The money to
carry out this agreement is practically
pledged. That is the money was
pledged at the time the negotiations
with the Edison company were dropped
and there is no reasonab BILE doubt
that the merchants will stick to their
original subscriptions.
There VIII be meeting of the direct
ors of the Merchants association to-
morrow to talk over and decide the
details of the lighting of the clusters
The evening when the lights are turned
on will undoubtedly be made a gala
one. Already civic celebration is
planned.
The clusto- posts run from the casino
site on West Colorado street to the
Hotel Maryland on the east side, while
up and down Raymond and Fair Oaks
avenue the posts extend from the far
thest limits of the two city parks.
The CROSS streets are also Included.