Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-14
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that Mr.. Belts recommended was in
troduced into Council and referred.
| don't know whether it was put into
the report Mr.. Belts wrote the or
dinance. The reason | think the re-
port was put into the Council and re-
ferred is that | asked members OF
the gas committee IL / might appear
before them; because II imposes
good many conditions and duties on
me, and | wanted to see that II was
in such shape as that | could carry
them out. 1t never came back to me,
of course, and ] was never called on
to appear before the committee and
/ don't know what became of IL. L
think it was turned over to Mr.. Fish
er, but If you are going TO have Mr..
Fisher here he can tell you about
that.
Mr.. Spinks: Mr.. Dunn, this fran
chise was granted to this company
for thirty years for the purpose OF
supplying heat and power and light,
and they are granted the use OF the
streets and other public highways of
the city, and are authorized to erect
and construct poles, conduits. and so
forth, in order to supply electricity
for light, heat and power, and other
exandria and its inhabitants, and up
on the provisions and limitatios here
in set forth, and those hereafter pass
ed by the City Council applicable
thereto. All this work was to be
done under your supervision. Have
you ever been called upon or notified
or asked permission for the use OF
the streets of Alexandria for the
lighting purposes or have they ever
requested or notified you that they
were going to carry current outside
of the city?
Mr. Dunn: Not to me. | would
judge that they had no right to do
that.
Mr.. Spinks: Would they not have
to make application to the City Coun-
Gil?
Mr.. Dunn: Yes, sir.
Mr.. Spinks: They have run wires al
ready, have they not, outside Of town?
Mr.. Kirby: Yes, sir. In Brad
dock Heights and Del Ray and they
are running them now down to Fort
Hunt.
Mr.. Dunn: They cannot run them
outside of town under this charter.
If they had applied to me for per-
mission / could not have given 1t to
them. 1t is very plain that they are
given the right to erect poles and run
wires in the city for the purposes of
the City Council and the inhabitants
of the city of Alexandria.
The Chairman: And where the
question arises about planting poles
and property owners object they
come to you?
Mr.. Dunn: They ought to.
The Chairman: They do?
MIR. Dunn: Sometimes. can't
settle it. They have to come to an
agreement with the owners of the
property.
Mr.. Spinks: They have never con-
suited you?
Mr.. Dunn: No, they never did.
would not know the present super
intendent if saw him on the street
The plan was in the beginning that
they should use the old city poles
that had been erected, and that has
been about the only time that / have
been called upon.
Mr.. Kirby: | went to set a pole
on Christ Church alley and Mr. HUI
fish objected and | went to Mr.. Car
lin, and he said the property owner
was the only one who could give the
permission and | did not plant the
pole.
Mr.. Dunn: | think the original
ordinance does not give the right to
do it. Even If they got the consent
of the property owners and | did not
approve it, suppose | could stop it.
Mr.. Rodgers cut one of the Western
Union poles down there on Fayette
Street.
Mr.. Hill: We are not getting two
thousand candle power lamps?
Mr.. Kirby: No. sir
Mr.. Hill: Mr.. Belts report is not
being carried out?
Mr. Kirby: No, sir; it is not
Mr.. Dunn | don't say that Mr..
Belts did not make that report at the
request of the Council. don't know.
Mr. Spinks: You never have been
consulted about anything except as
to these old poles when they first
came here, as the use of the old poles
that belonged to the city?
Mr.. Dunn: No, sir.
Mr.. Hill: This new firm has never
consulted you about anything, have
they?
Mr.. Dunn: No. sir; l don't know
them.
Mr. Spinks: / move that when
this report has been completed it be
published in the Alexandria Gazette.
The motion was unanimously car
ried.
The committee thereupon adjourn
ed to Friday evening, June 4th, 1910,
at the same place, when further tes-
timony will be submitted.
At the Office of the Mayor, in the
city of Alexandria, Va, Friday,
June 3, 1910, s o'clock P. NJ.
The committee met pursuant to
adjournment.
Present: Francis F. Marbury, ESQ.,,
Chairman; H. Noel Garner, Secre-
tary; F. c. Spinks, Esq, j. NJ. Hill,
Esq, and John w. Harrison, ESQ.,,
members of the said committee;
Samuel p. Fisher, Esq, attorney
for Alexandria City; John p. Wal
Ter, Esq, Clerk of the Gas; and ID.
R. Stansbury, Esq, Clerk OF the
Common Council.
The Chairman: ] have here a let
ter which has been found in the Of
fee of the Clerk of the Gas, and
which / wish to read:
Alexandria Electric Company, Alex
andria, Virginia,
General Offices Media, Pennsylvania.
Alexandria, Va,
January 16, 1908.
E. F. Price, Esq, City Auditor, Alex
andria, Va:
Dear Sir:-This is to notify you
that we completed the change of the
city arc lamps on January 18th, from
6.6 ampere to rs ampere. Trusting
this will be satisfactory, we are,