The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-01-09
Members of the City Council
Are Equally Divided on Cues
ton of Granting Franchise.
MAYOR DECIDES QUESTION
Passes First Reading and Goes
to Second-city Attorney
Opposes Ordinance.

After City Attorney NJ. G. sperry
and Councilman C. B. johnson had
spoken against franchise reported
by the ordinance committee for the
Clarksburg Electric & Gas Company,
said franchise at the council meeting
Wednesday night was put on its first
reading and passed to the second
reading by the deciding vote of
Mayor Grille. Messrs. connell, Ly-
den, Johnson, Wood and McReynolds
voted against the ordinance and
Messrs. Robbins, Cork, Ernst, Lynch
and Anderson voted for it. 1t be-
ing tie vote, it fell to the mayor to
decide.
The franchise reads in full as fol-
lows:
Whereas. The Clarksburg Gas &
Electric Company, the above named
corporation, fled petition with VIII
H. Cole, City Clerk of said City, on
the 18th day of October, A. D. 1907,
praying for the extension of certain
franchises then owned and possessed
by said corporation, authorizing it
to maintain gas works and an cleo
trio light plant, together with the
right to set or place poles and ap-
pliances, string wires thereto, and
to lay and maintain pipes and mains,
in and upon the streets and alleys of
said City:
And Whereas, said petitioner, The
Clarksburg Gas & Electric Company,
has heretofore caused notice to be
published of the time and place. of
making such application, and the OBJ
ject thereof. to the City Council, and
of the fling of the same With the
said City Clerk, as aforesaid, for
more than thirty days prior to this
date, as required by law.
PART ONE.
Therefore, be it ordained by the
Council of the City of Clarksburg,
West Virginia:
1.That the above named corpora
ton, The Clarksburg Gas & Electric
Company, its successors and assigns,
be and It is hereby granted the right
to own, erect, construct and main
tain plant, works and power house
for the manufacture and production
of electricity for heating, lighting,
power and other purposes, and to
erect, construct and maintain poles,
masts, towers, transformers, wires,
cables and appliances. in, upon and
along the streets and alleys of said
City, Necessary to supply the citizens
of said city with electricity, for a
period of fifty years from and after
the date of the passage of this ordi-
nance.
That all of said rights and prlvl-
leges herein are granted only upon
and subject to the following condi-
tions, limitations, reservations and
restrictions. to-wit:
l. The Clarksburg Gas & Electric
Company shall. at all times during
the term or period aforesaid, furnish
to all the citizens and inhabitants of
said City of Clarksburg, at any place
within the limits of said city sufficient
amount of electricity for heating.
lighting and power purposes, the
same to be furnished continuously.
unavoidable accidents excepted, dur
ing all the hours of each day, inciud-
ing Sundays. But said Company
shall not be required to run con-
tinuously on Sundays until the ex-
piration of four months after the
passage of this ordinance. And
whenever application shall be made
to said Company by any citizen or
inhabitant Of said City for electricity,
to be furnished at point within the
corporate limits of said City. not
then reached by the lines or wires of
said Company, the said Company
shall extend its wires to said prop
erty: Provided, however, that the
person SO applying shall contract in
writing to use a sufficient quantity
Of electricity to warrant said Com
pany in making such extension, and
shall comply with such reasonable
rules and regulations relating there
to as said Company may prescribe.
II. All poles, masts, towers and
other electrical appliances which
may hereafter be erected by The
Clarksburg Gas & Electric Company
in. upon and along any Of the streets
and alleys of said City. shall be To-
Gated subject to the will and consent