Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-15
PRESENTS ORDINANCE
CONTRACT AND BOND
Rates Are Made PubIic-council Will
Caucus on Ordinances Before Con-
siderins Them In Open Meeting Next
Monday Nisht-D. r. Denmead On
Rond-McBride is Barred.

| After putting the three ordinances on
! their first reading, and after reading
the contract and bond further action
was postponed until next Monday
night No. contract or ordinances were
presented by Mr.. Mcbride, who is wait
ing for the city council to tell him
whether they would accept his offer to
( put UP $4,000 bonds guaranteeing to
build an interurban line as we'll as to
buy Jones & Hovey or build anew. Nc
Bride said today that he could not con-
form to the mayors freeze-out contract
because of its prohibitive conditions
upon anyone who did not possess an
option on Jones & Hovey's property
but that if the council would accept
his proposition and give him a week or
ten days time he would gather his
people together and put UP his bonds.
The council as a committee Of the
whole. including Mayor Ingledue and
City Solicitor F. F. Northup, will meet
at the call of the mayor to consider
the questions before they are submitted
10 the council again.
D. T. Denmead on Bond.
The sureties on the bond for $50, 00C
are d. T. Denmead OF this city. and C
s. Jennisen, of Chicago. In a letter
I from Darling. which accompanied the
bond. he said that Mr.. Jennisen wa:
secretary of the Western Trust an6
Savings Company. OF Chicago.
The contract provides that in cass
the ordinances are not adopted by the
council and the franchise voted by Oct
%. this year the bond is void and il
also provides that in case corpora
ton is formed TO take over the Jones
& Hovey property a new bond may be
substituted If it is equally as good. II
also provides that in case these parties
receive a franchise they will put VI
another bond for $4,000 guaranteeing
ahat they viii build a new plant with
in one year if they do not buy Jones &
Hovey but as they hold an option or
Jones & Hovey's plant they could jus
as we'll have offered million as $780,.
900 as neither would ever be called
The Three Ordinances.
The following are the principal
features of the electric light and pow
or. gas and street railway ordinances
requested by Messrs. Darling and
| Schroeder. which were submitted to
the council and considered Tuesday
night.
Electricity Ordinance.
Grants franchise for twenty five
4 years
Gives the owner the privilege of &C
/ curing the plant, property and equip
ment and franchise of any one now
owning such a plant or franchise.
Establishes the following rates fo1
Z electric lights, based on amount usee
I per month:
one to twenty kilowatt hours, in one
4 month, u cents per llilowatt hour, 70,
Z all used.
over twenty and under forty kilo.
4 watt hours II cents per kilowatt hour
4 for all used.
over forty and under eighty lzilo-
4 watt hours. cents per kilowatt hour
Tor ali used
y over eighty and under $50 kilowat
q hours, cents per kilowatt hour, fol
i all used.
q one hundred sixty or more lailowat
4 hours. cents per kilowatt hour, fol
4 all used
4 All bills subject to discount of II
4 per cent if paid by the fifteenth of the
9 month following.
4 For Power.
Il One 90 100 klowatt hours, in on,
a month, cents per kilowatt hour, fo
d al used.
q One hundred to 200 kilowatt hours
2 cents per kilowatt hour
b Two hundred TO 400 kilowatt hours
~ cents per kilowatt hour. for al
used
= Four hundred klowatt hours or over
cents per kilowatt hour. for all used
n All bills subject to a discount of L
| per cent if paid by the fifteenth of tn
month following.
Makes compulsory the rehabilitatin,
:, of the plant within eighteen months t
=, meet the demands of the consumers.
Provides that after Jan. 1917
Darling and Schroeder shall pay to tn
city 2 per cent of the gross receipt
of the sales of electricity.
:" Gas Ordinance.
=. Grants franchise for twenty -fiv
IS years.
~ Gives the right to erect now, or &C
Ia quire the plant and franchise of an
10 one now owning such plant or fran
he chise.
Establishes the following rates fo
'y gas:
s, Until Jan. 1, 1911, s1.s5 per 100
er cubic feet
10 When the sales reach 45,0o0,o0O cub
ct feet per year the gross rate is to b
er s1.30 per 1000 cubic feet
When the sales reach 5000 900 cub
feet per year the gross rate Is to b
of SIPS per 1000 cubic feet
e. When the sales reach 65 100000 cub
sh feet per year the gross rate is to /
% $1.20 per 1000 cubic feet.
ct When the sales reach 10000 900 cub
IN feet per year the gross rate is 10 /
~, s1.10 per 1000 cubic feet.
-. Above rates are subject to the 70
-, lowing provisions:
After JAM /, 1911 the rate Is to
= not more than s1.30 per 1000 cubic fes
-. After Jan. 1, 1912 the rate is to be n
' more than SIPS per 1000 cubic feet
~ After Jan. 1, 1913 the rate is to
ne not more than s1.20 per 1000 cubic fet
Gu After Jan. 1. 1914 the rate ds to
not more than s1.15 per 1000 cubic fe.
After Jan 1, 1915, and during the re
= Of the life of the franchise, the rate