The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06

An ordinance granting to the Keno
sha Electric Railway Company, cor
poration under the laws of the State
of Wisconsin, its successors and as
signs, the use of streets, lanes, alleys
and public places in the City of Ke-
nosha, for the purpose of furnishing
electric light, heat and power TO the
City of Kenosha and its inhabitants.
Section /.
Be it ordained, by the Common Coun-
Gil of Kenosha that the Kenosha Elec-
trio Railway Company, a corporation,
duly organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Wisconsin, it's sue
cessors and assigns be, and it hereby
is, authorized and empowered to lay
in the ground, place on poles or other
wise install and to maintain wires or
other suitable conductors and all neces-
sary eqmpment fol- the transmission Of
electricity and for the delivery and
furnishing Of electric light, power and
heat for public and private purposes,
upon, over, through, under and in the
streets, lanes, alleys and public
grounds of the city of Kenosha, and to
install, maintain and furnish electric
lights for public and private lighting
and the equipment necessary therefor,
and for the furnishing of electric heat
and power.
Said Company, its successors and as
signs, is further authorized and en-
powered temporarily to obstruet said
streets, lanes, alleys and public grounds
for the purpose of digging and filing
trenches, the erection Of poles or other
wise, as the exercise of the powers
hereby conferred may require: Provid
ed, however, that after the conclusion
of any such work said Company shall
place the streets and other places
where such work is done in as good
condition as they were before com
mencing said work, and that no excava-
ton for the insertion of poles shall be
made of diameter of more than
twelve inches greater than the diane
ter Of the poles to be inserted in any
paved street.
The city reserves the right to use
any and all poles at any time for fire
alarm use not interfering with the
wires Of the said Kenosha Electric
Railway Company, its successors or as
signs
The streets, lanes and alleys in which
said lines of wire may be laid, and on
which said poles may be placed and
the position thereof in said streets,
lanes or alleys shall be under the con
troll of the Common Council, and the
poles shall be placed III such places and
at such distances apart as the duly
authorized officer or officers Of the
Common Council shall direct The
poles shall be of the best quality of
cedar, straight, smooth, painted, and
not less than thirty-f 1857 feet
in height from the surface of the street
to the cross beam on which the wires
are fastened and shall be protected by
wire wound around same and every
part thereof to height of eight feet
above the surface of the street. The
poles shall be so placed as not to in
terfere with the construction or placing
Of any water or gas pipes, or any
drain or sewer, or the flow of water
therefrom, including all such pipes,
drains and sewers as may hereafter be
placed by authority of said city. In
case any street, lane or alley on which
any poles may have been placed by
said company shall be changed in
grade or brought to grade, said com
pany shall change and reset said poles
at its own expense and under the direc-
ton of the Common Council. All posts,
poles and wires shall be so placed and
maintained as not to interfere with
the posts, poles or wires, or in any
other manner, with any telegraph or
telephone now being operated in the
City of Kenosha, and so as to avoid
danger to all persons and adjacent
property. All wires shall be main
tanned at an elevation of not less than
twenty-five (25) feet from the surface
of the street, and shall be thoroughly
covered with weatherproof insulation.
Whenever practical and available
ways of working said conductors under
ground shall have been discovered the