Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-21
STREET lighting
Put UP 70 COUNCIL
WHETHER BUSINESS SECTION is
Z BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED DE-
PENDs ON COUNCIL.
CLUB WILL FINANCE PLAN
/, IF CITY FURNISHES LIGHT
Resolution, Setting Forth Such Prop
osition, Submitted to couneii-Is Re-
ferred to COMMITTEES Of tho Whole
Sixty Lights to Cost $4,14o-Maok
Olson, Of De. Moines, Talks TO Club.


/. Olson, Of Des Moines, Talks to Club.
Whether or not the business section
OF the city is to be- brilliantly lighted
with sidewalk lights, supported ON Or
namental iron posts, depends on what
faction the city council takes on the
resolution introduced before the coun-
lcil Monday night This resolution was
prepared by l.. W. LaShelle. p. D.
Hamilton and James T. Pound, the
11arshaihown Clubs special lighting
committee.
The gist of the resolution was that
the Marshalltown Club will undertake
to finance the movement, provided the
city will furnish free light for five
years. The resolution was referred to
the council as a committee Of the whole
to report tonight
Figure on Sixty Posts.
/ The plan, as outlined in this resolu-
tion, which was prepared by the COM
mtttee that had it introduced, contem-
plates lighting Main street from Sec
ond street to Third avenue with sixty
posts set eighty feet apart. This would
give twelve to each block, or six on
each side Of the street in each block.
The club will undertake to finance
the purchase of the posts and their in
staflation, which is estimated to cost
$4,140 provided the city will furnish
free lik;.i for five years. The light
is to be turned on at dusk and kept
burning until II o'clock on week day
nights and on Saturday nights until
midnight. Mr.. Herunan's resolution
authorized the mayor to accept the
clubs proposition and to enter into a
contract to purchase the power need
ed for the lights at the best terms pos
sible or to furnish it from the city
plant.
I Is Only Feasible Plan.
: Members of the Marshalltown Club
committee, who have spent much time
on the lighting project, say that unless
/ the city council accepts this PROPOSE
/ tion that the lighting of the street Will
not be possible because Of the high cost
which will fall entirely on the property
owners or tenants This would include
the cost Of the posts and lights their
installation and cost and maintenance.
While the city council had this reso-
tuition presented to them a meeting of
the Marshalltown Club was being held
1r,the east court room. Its members,
7 A3s q WHOLE. apparently care but very
little whether the principal street OF
the city is lighted at all or not. There
were two dozen there. and less than
half that number were retailers or
business men of the up town district.
< Mack Olson Talks.
Mr. Mack Olson, a member Of the
Greater Des Moines committee, who
was chiefly instrumental in getting that
city SO brilliantly lighted with orra-
mental street lights, spent more than
two hours addressing the small gath
ering. Not only did he discuss the
lighting question, but on request, delv-
ed into the commission plan of govern
ment as Il has been tried out in Des
Moines. Mr. Olson holds that the sys-
tenn Of lighting, as 1t has been develop
ed in his home city, is the best single
advertising medium Des Moines has
ever had. He quoted from periodicals
publication given the city free of charge
In accounts of its lighting system.
Gets the Business.
ZIG. SS1fN JIG hkAGW W 1IiStaulSCO "tAS1S
khe lighting Of the streets so brilliantly
had been the direct cause of bringing
men to Des Mones, to engage in bust
ness Des MONIES has something over
400 of these posts now and it's aim is to
have 1,90o. IT started two years ago
with twenty-four. The COST Of main
tenance, he said, was $3.50 per month
per light. but the electricity rate is only
cnpfc nor u w hoJr
Where many were against the system
to start with now, Mr.. Olson said, mer
chants were clamoring to get posts set
that had been ordered for them. He
declared that it had 'heen success be-
cause the merchants mad been convinc-
ed that the lights were of dollars and
cents value to them. They found. he
said, that the streets that Were lighted
were the streets that drew the crowds,
and the streets that were not lighted
were not used by pedestrians or vehi-
Giles.
Praises -pss Moinss Plan.
Mr.. Olson could not say enough good
words for the Des Moines plan of COM