Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-04-12
COUNCIL ACCEPTS
LIGHTING OFFER
MADE BY THE GAS AND ELEC-
TRIO COMPANY.
Arc Lights will be Added and Gas
Lights to Be Cut Out-COmmit-
tee Reports on Canvass of Votes
of Municipal Election.

The following report and recommen-
dation from the committee on street
lighting was read and adopted at the
meeting of the Common Council Tues
day evening:
The Common Council having on the
18th day of December, 1906, passed
resolution to the effect that the six
Welsbach gas lamps now maintained
on Washington street between West
Milwaukee street and West Main
street be discontinued, and that three
electric arc lamps be installed in place
thereof; further. that the gas lamps
now maintained at the west end of
Main street bridge and on Second
street at the foot of Bailey street
be discontinued; and, further, that
an electric arc lamp be installed on
Main street bridge; the Committee on
Street Lighting reports: That said
committee. notified the Watretown Gas
& Electric company to make such
changes and received the following
letter and proposition: In reply to
your request to discontinue certain gas
lamps on Washington street and in
other parts of the city, and to sub
stitute electric arc lamps, we desire
to say that under the terms of our Con-
tract with the city we understand that
tho 10 rnfarrod tn indQ,
contract for term of years expiring
1913.
These lamps as you may know are
leased by US from the Welsbach Street
Lighting company from the time the
several lamps were installed to the
end of the period of our contract, and
to remove the lamps as requested by
you would be violation of the con-
tract. While we would still be bound
for the rent OF the lamps under our
lease referred to above which was
based on our contract with the city.
We suggest that if it is the desire
of your committee to arrange fer all
light lighting of the localities re-
ferred to, that 1t might serve your
purpose and enable the city to furnish
all night, every night lighting of gas
lamps all over the city, in place of
the moonlight schedule under which
the lighting is now furnished. by con-
siderlng favorably the proposition
we submit below.
The contract price of gas lamps
burning all night and every night is
S33. 90 per year. We hereby propose
to furnish sixty-nlne (69) gas boule-
ward lamps. (now in use by the city,,
or more as may be ordered in by the
Common Council, for the balance of
the term as contracted for by the
Common Council in 1903, at the rate
of 900 per year for each gas lamp
burning all night and every night in
the year. The lamps burning all
night and every night burn q times
as many hours IN month as the
twenty four (24) night midnight lamps
and will cost under this proposition
| So. 90 per year more.
For comparison we submit the fol-
lowing: The present gas lighting cost
the city as follows:
Four all night every night lamps
at S33. 90, $1,000
Sixty-five midnight, "a night lamps
at s24O 90, $1560.0o Total S1692.O0
Under this proposition:
Sixty nine all night every night
lamps at $4,000, SOTO. 90
Present cost 1852
Difference per year S37S.O 90
Difference per month $31. SO
The said committee asked the City
Attorney TOR an opinion relative to
the matter and received the assurance
that the terms proposed by said com
pany may be accepted by the city
without lnvslidating the franchise in
which different rates are specified.
If accepted, the city should be pal-
ticular to get receipt in full set
Element for light furnished from time
to time up to definite dates from said
company, contract entered into and
the franchise amended to comply with
the new terms.
The committee, after examination
of the matter. recommended that the
proposition of the lighting company
be accepted, the franchise amended to
that effect and contract made with
said lighting company.
The committee further recon-
mended that the gas lights at the
west end of Main street bridge and on
Second street at the foot of Bailey
street be discontinued and that an
electric arc light be installed on Main
street bridge, pursuant to the resolu
tion aforesaid.
The committee appointed to canvas
the votes of the municipal election
held on the second day of April, 1907,
reported that they had examined the
inspectors statements from the various
wards and found that tire fullowlng
named persons received a majority Of