The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
Light Company Official d, Ill
Opposes Lighting sebs''|
Z. c. NJ, |. It
CITY ENGINEER GIyp0
OUT HOT ISIRR,
Says Mercantile Instihd.I !.
Planning to Get Its ii ISu
Free of Charge. 1Sho,

A; o, Honnold, electric.
for the Utah Light & Ra;lwsM R;M II
expressed himself last ,%,y n,aS, -
tion to the petition of at tSa !, u
and other property owro e q
street between South Temnls Z,
South streets for the rigSt e : -
a system of cluster lights a, II 70 70
different from that advoe.a.,.ai' ~ ai'
Engineer Louis G.. Kelsey
We favor the uniforms,
and of system" said W.! "!
and, personally, see no ,a,. -. "
the property owners in ,S ,SsssI
should oppose Mr.. Kelsey ,1,
is understood, | suppose, tb,, ~
ley poles must be placed % a. ~
Of the street instead of in n.
and, in that event, I am fr,.y M
that we cannot utilize the % n,l
by the property owners f'
poles. We can use the nola% W
by Mr., Kelsey for that purpo..
81 would like to see n.
owners get together with ,hs q
Gals and with the diferen, so..
organizations Of the city and -
on n pole which could he n,;I,s
trolley purposes as well az i,
ing purposes. Moreover, | EssI,
to see a general and uniforT ~. !,
lighting system agreed upon i
while. | see no reason WHY n,
erty owners In any one blo,I
be permitted to install a sy,len ];
own at variance with that AN,
by the city officials.
Kelsey to the 2. C. MI
City Engineer Kelsey, in dis,
the merits Of mis- plan as oppc,s
plan urged by the z. C. VI. /. sI
property owners in the block 4
said yesterday: :
My plan has the approval
engineers of the Utah Light ( b
company. They have so STATED !
edly to city officials. One res.
their approval of my plan Is
provide for a wroughf.iron po!s
the others want n cast-iron pole. Y
| can he used for trolley purp,.
the event the trolley poles are
at the sides Of the street inn.
in the center. Their pole ca.
utilized for such a purpose,
"The petition OF the propsriI
rrs provides, among other thinr
! fiee poles shall be placed in n
the i. C, NJ. I. ] say noE,
want it distinctly understood (
say it, that the z. c. NJ |. ery
get its FIVE poles free of coH
the profit it will make selling ,
the other property owners In ID.
IT, has already arranged FOR L
chase of all the poles needed
block and proposes. to dispose d
at $l1o, making a good profit o.
( pole.
81 am working for the lastl
of a uniform cluster~lighhng
throughout the business district,
oppose allowing the property on
any district TO install a plan
own which will mar the dnifon
the entire scheme, The pole
cate will cost the property OWE
apiece; that which the T. c. NJ
poses TO unload upon its cusloE.!
cost the customers-not the q. !
$40 each, -
Veto Is EYpected.
Should the city council give
| C. NJ, I. Ell al permission to y
peculiar system of their own, .
! lieved in city administrator
that Mayor Thompson, acting y
advice of the city engineer
engineering committee Of 'he
would veto such permission. II
tiop was granted at the council
Monday night. but final action
layed one week by the action .
Gilman Crabtree in moving y
GRAFTON.
AS n result of Mr., Crabires :
the entire matter will come up
the city council next Monday .,
final settlement, and 1T is Prooa'
the property owners petlti9n
denied and that they Will os
that they must wait until
lighting system is adopted tol
tire business district; also 'os.
such a uniform system is aa0p''