Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-11-14
RELIGHTlNG THE CITY.
COMMITTEE OF ALDERMEN AP.
POINTED TO RELOCATE
STREET LIGHTS T. Z Er.s%
ARC LIGHTS TO REPLACE OLD IN
cANDEScENTS-THERE WILL
BE 20 LIGHTS.

The city council held a short session
last night. The, meeting was called |
primarily for the purpose of settling
up the old bills against the city, but
the chairman Of the bill committee |
and the bills were not in evidence and |
the matter went over to the next meet
ing.
Mayor Webb and Aldermen Slattery, !
A. T. Patterson, Mckenzie, McGillis,
E. e. Patterson, Fisher, and Wilcox
were present.
Ed Hughes, on behalf Of the Hughes
Electric company, was present and
wanted to know what the city ex-
pected to do about relighting the city
as he had heard was proposed. At
present, he said, the incandescenti
lights were burning night and day and
the company disliked such wastage of
power.
| In reply to question he stated the
price of arc lights such as were used
in the larger cities would be $50 per
year each. The city now had six arcs
for which it was paying $12o each as
they were of different pattern from
those proposed to be installed and
much more expensive to maintain, be-
ing of an old pattern. The new sys-
tenn would have to be worked on diff
ferent system from that now in use
and would necessitate lot of new
material and machinery and the COM
pany wanted to know what was to be
done as it would take two months to
install the new order of things and
incur a cost of about $4,000 for in
stallation.
Twenty-three Lights.
A desultory discussion followed and
finally it was agreed that the location
of the % lights should be left to a
committee of one alderman from each
ward, which would report at the next
meeting of the council. The CON-
mittee was named as follows: Alder
men .Slattery, Tatley, McGillis, e. G.
Patterson, Horner, Wilcox. The COM
mittee is to meet Thursday night at
the city hall when all interested can
meet up with and tell them where
they are at.
The following bills were referred to
the claims committee: A. G. Rinck-
Hey, use of hacks, $3.50; H. Anderson,
street work, $11; Frank Denzie, street
work, SIS; D. J. McGillis, rent of fire
hall, $25; Hughes Electric Co., lights
$126; e. C. Taylor, rent of city hall
two months, $40; H. b. Neighbor, ex-
ira police, S.. =
Salary Of Chief.
The mayor called up the matter of
| the salary Of the chief of police for
the six weeks he was away and said
that at the last meeting the bill had
been allowed but that he had not
signed the warrant until he knew
whether the council intended to pay
the substitute for that time also, as
he felt that Mr.. Ely, the substitute,
had earned his money and he did not
want him left in the lurch. McGillis
said the chief did lots of work outside
of the line of his duty, such as street
work, etc., and the mayor said it was
hard to get a good man to do all the
work done by the chief at the price.
! Jared the Night Police.
4 u ~ Do1t
many rows at the corner of Fifth and
Main streets every night that he was
i frequently obliged to telephone the
chief to get out of bed and come down
town to clean out the drunks and dis
Eorderies whom the night police could
do nothing with apparently; that the
might man spent too much time in the
bandstand restaurant when he should
Ebe out pounding the heads off the
roughs who were disturbing the peace,
and he said he thought it strange that
one man could get out of bed in the
middle of the night and clean up the
toughs in a trice when the other
policeman could not stop the racket.
Mr.. Patterson invited the mayor to be
Ibis guest at the hotel any night and
Esee how things went for himself.
The mayor admitted that that was a
tough corner as there We're a good
many blind pigs in that vicinity. g. ;,
Il Finally Alderman A. r. Patterson
moved that the two policemen be
Igranted months vacation annually
and that the absence Of the chief be.
/ counted as such vacation, and that the
i pay Of substitute Ely be allowed,
!. which carried. The council then ad-,
i iourned until next Monday evening.
Two horses for sale. Onesa 5 year
! old; good driver or rider. about 1000
Il to 100 in weight. Other Is heavier,
4 s years old ana d splendid work horse,