Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
PUBLIC ADVERTISING

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ing and granting to such highest bidde
the grantee of said franchise, the privileg
to connect an auxiliary fire alarm system
It's apparatus and devices, with the sait
cltys street fire alarm boxes, and, fol
lhe period of twenty-one CID years, u
maintain and operate such auxiliary Ill
alarm system in connection with the saie
city street fire alarm system, provided
however, that the said auxiliary con
hections shall be made and maintained II
such manner as not to interfere will
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
faction of the Chief Engineer of the Fire
department 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 clty's street fire alarm
| repairing, replacing and changing said
| city street fire alarm boxes shall, if
possible, be done by the city authorities
IN such manner as not to obstruct or
inJure or prevent the free use of said
auxiliary fire alarm system and it's de-
vices; and provided further that the de-
| vices and appliances used in such aux
| iliary fire alarm system shall be such as
aGtuate The Ievers In the city street fire
alarm boxes, and said auxiliary fire alarm
must not have any direct electrical CON
lire alarm circuits; and, In SO far as the
clty's fi.e alarm system is concerned, the
said aux 'lialy fire alarm system must be
aooslutely non-interfering in Its method
or turning in alarms through the city's
street fire alarm boxes.
Ihat the said conduits and wires and
the said auxiliary fire alarm system shall
be 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:
Thes the condu,ts to be laid or main
tained under the said franchise shall not
be larger in horizontal diameter than
five inches; that said conduit shall be
made or iron. pipe or vitrified thing, ce-
in concrete, aGd 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
De constructed In 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
a manner as not to interfere with the
Tree use of the streets by the public, eX-
cept such temporary interference as may
be necessarily incident to the proper
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 he,
sens making excavations in the streets of
the said city, for the purpose of insurins
the restoration of all streets to a good and
perfect condition along said excavation.
ms he
structed along the lines of any of said
eonduits, for the purpose of affording ac-
cess thereto, provided that said traps or
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
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 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
opinion of the Street Superintendent of
said city, render necessary any change
i'll the position of said conduit, the grantee
of said franchise or his assigns shall shift
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- |
to said grantee or his assigns or to such |
or agent in Los Angeles.
That the work of constructing and in
stalling said auxiliary fire alarm system
md laying down said conduits in those por-
tons of said city now known as the Con
luit Districts" and connecting its appar-
l,arm boxes, and the work necessary to |
The exercise of the privileges for which |
said franchise shall have been granted,
shall be commenced in good faith within
lot more than four az months from the the
date of the granting of the said franchise |
and shall be continuously prosecuted in
good faith and shall be completed not more
han three (31 years thereafter so that
within that time a complete auxiliary fire
alarm system shall be constructed, laid
lown and operated within the said City
If Los Angeles of sufficient capacity and
eXtent to accommodate all of the then
existing bona fide subscribers to or rent
srs of the said auxiliary fire alarm sys-
EN-; and that IL said work be not SO
prosecuted and completed
within the time and in the manner above
specified, the said franchise shall be for
The right TO maintain and operate the
said auxiliary fire alarm system out
side of the Conduit Districts" herein
before referred to may be exercised by
means of overhead wires erected or at
ached to the poles belonging to other
persons or corporations or otherwise; but
said right to maintain said system out
side of the said Conduit Districts be
by means of overhead wires
,rected or attached to the poles belonging
o other persons or corporations, the same
hall be exercised by the grantee of said
franchise or his assigns, only with the
consent and authority of the owners OF
aid poles, and such right shall not. nor
hall the franchise granted to said grantee
" his assigns, in any manner enlarge or
Xtend the rights or privileges of the
lersons or corporations owning such poles,
IT confer upon them any greater or dif-
erent rights or privileges than those
'ranted to them by the franchise or fran
hises under which said poles have been
r may be erected and maintained; and all
mes or wires constructed or operated
nder said franchise shall have complete
ron or copper circuits.
Ihat said grantee and his assigns snail,
! required by said city, furnish and allow
I, during the term of said franchise, the
lght TO use, free of charge or expense TO
ald city, the conduitS and a certain per-
entage of the wires in each cable, as
erelnafter provided, for municipal pur-
oses, such use to be consistent with the
roper and reasonable use of said system |
y said grantee and his assigns, and to be
xercised in the manner following, to wit:
Wherever conduits are laid for the wires {
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