The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-02
Traction Representative Says
Removal of Feed Wires
Would Be Hardship to His
Corporation.
ENGELBERT SCRAPPY:
STUDY is SARCASTIC
When Traction Man Says
There Are No High Tension
Wires, the City Attorney
Affords Amusement,

If the object of Mr. John j. Appel.
the representative of the Terre Haute,
Indianapolis & Eastern, was to delay
action and to provoke discussion he
certainly succeeded when he appeared
before the common council last night
In a mild and soothing voice with al
most pathetic delivery he got OF a
plaintive story last night about the sad
plight of his company.
MY company does not ask any more
Of Richmond than it does of any town
that it passes through" he said. Then
he went on to answer the question,
What is live wire?" or in reality.
What is high tension wire ~
No High Tension Wires.
He stated that there are in reality
no high tension wires in this city, on
ly 500 to 525 volts being used. He fur
ther stated that it would be a great
hardship on the company which he
represented if the wires were taken off
Main street and placed in an alley, in
asmuch as every three hundred and
fifty feet there would have to be a
tap made which would necessitate the
erection of poles up to Main street at
that interval.
Then arose Mr., Engelbert and stated
that in his opinion the point was not
whether there were high tension wires
on Main street. but whether there
should be any wires at all. "I repre-
sent the people Of Richmond in this
should come off, high tension or low
tension
Deuker Takes Floor.
He was followed by Mr.. Deuker who
aid that his intention was in the first
place that all the wires be put under
ground.
This line of argument was kept up
between Mr.. Engelbert and Mr.. Deuker
until City Attorney Study Interrupted.
Study Interrupts.
Mr.. Study said that he was greatly
chagrined. "To think" he said. that
you and have been to all the trouble
to make an ordinance which would
keep high tension wires off Main
street. Why according to the testi.
mony of Mr.. Appel we haven't one Of
those obnoxious things in the city and
if the ordinance had been brought into
court, the ordinance could not
have stood because we could
mt prove that the company had any
in the city limits. I make no criticism
of Mr.. Deuker, but l am sorry that
there was not some capable electrician
in this town who could have informed
us the difference between high ten
sion wire and a clothes line"
EngIebert Not FoiIed.
Mr.. Engelbert was not to be led
astray by any such pleasantries Of Mr.
Study and the calm. pleading tones OF
Mr.. Appel. He went into the history
Of the case and dragged out the in
iquity of the company in placing the
wires on Main street. They said they
were merely temporary, and then their
brazen impudence in stating that they
were not. going to take them down." SO
said Mr.. Engelbert with considerable
vehemence.
In spite of the determined stand Of
Mr.. Engelbert. none of the council
men or Mr.. Appel seemed very much
excited, nor did Superintendent Cor.
don, who sat in the back of the room
change a hair when the Philippe in
which he was denounced came OF
AS was said in the beginning, il the
object of Mr.. Appel was keep any ac-
enough either by accident or by de-
sign to delay action on the matter for
some time to come.
In other words there is nothing do.
ing so far.