Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-02-03
CONTRACT IS SIGNED
Lighting Agreement Involves Ex-
penditure Of $50,
place All lncandescent and Arc Lamps
Substance Of the Document.


changes in drafts for 1O-year contract
for street lighting as authorized by vote
of the village, the Twin State Gas and
Electric company and the board of VII
lage bailiffs have agreed upon contract
as stated in The Phoenix last week, and
this week the company's president affixed
his signature, the contract being sent to
New York for that purpose after being
signed by the bailiffs. The contract in
wolves an expenditure of about $4,000 in
the next 10 years. The 115 incandescent
lamps and the so arc lamps now in use
will be replaced with S0-candle- power
tungstens of which $50 or more will be
required. The company expects to have
the change made within the next few
weeks.
stripped of some of its legal verbiage,
the contract is as follows:
The company agrees to furnish, erect,
maintain and operate $50 tungsten series
incandescent lamps of 100 watts and 80
mean horizontal candle power each with
all the ordinary wooden poles, overhead
wires and fixtures required on the streets
of the village during a period of 10 years
beginning March /. 1911.
The company further agrees to furnish
erect maintain and operate any addi-
tional number of lamps, above the $50
lamps. that the baiiffs may order In
writing, at any time during the first nine
years of the period covered by this con-
tract
The company agrees to erect all of the
lamps at the points designated by the
baiiffs, and to relocate any lamps If so
required.
The company agrees to support each OF
the lamps by a horizontal iron fixture at
least four feet long that the lamp is
such distance above the street as the
baiffs shall designate, except as to
lamps for which the village provides poles
or fixtures; and to provide all new street
lamp fixtures with a new porcelain-lined
radial wave reflector of not less than Il
inches diameter The company agrees
to replace all of the present incandescent
street lamp refectors with new porcelain
lined radial reflectors at the rate of at
least so each year from the date hereof
If the village provides special poles or
fixtures for any of said lamps, then the
company will mount such lamps with
, sockets and radial wave reflectors on
| such poles or fixtures and will connect its
overhead circuits with the lamps so
mounted or with any underground wires
| that the village may run to these lamps.
No circuit connected to underground
/ wires shall be operated at more than
/ 1000 total volts.
| The company agrees to operate each of
the lamps with at least 100 true watts be-
| tween its terminals, during every night
| of each year from sunset to within 80
| minutes of sunrise, or from dusk to day
| light may be specified by the balitfs
! The company agrees to replace each
| lamp as soon as it fails to give as much
as 70 mean horizontal candle power
| without reflector.
| The company agrees to run each OF
its series circuits carrying any of the
lamps to the exterior wall of such mInHf,
! cipal or other building in the village a!
the bailiffs may indicate, so that the
bailiffs may connect each circuit with
| recording ampere meter within the build
| ing. The company shall not be helC
! liable for any damage to persons or prop.
erty occurring within such building by
reason of the wires or apparatus benl
installed in such building. No person
shall have access to the apparatus unless
authorized by the bailiffs.
The company agrees that the village
shall have full right a any time withou
notice to the company to make tests o
the lamps and the circuits and that tn,
village may remove any of the lamps a
any time for the purpose of having then
tested.
Not later than Feb Is. 1911, the com
pany will give the village notice in writ
ing of the amperes Of electric curren
with which the lamps are to be operated
and furnish the village with a sample o
the lamps If the company at any TIM
decides to change the amperes witt
give the village written notice of tn
amperes to be adopted at least 80 day
before the change
Lamps and re1ectors are to be KEEP
clean by the company and the compan
is to inspect all lamps at least once eacl
week
All poles wires and apparatus erecte
or used by the company for the supply o
operation of the lamps, except poles q
= underground wires that may he erecte
r by the village, are to be maintained b
= the company in good and safe condition
The company agrees to indemnify, de
' fend and eNonerate the village from an
against all claims for damages, costs G
Y expenses for injury to persons or proper
$ ty, except as hereinbefore provided {
, for the infringement of patent rights
n connected with the construction or us
= of the poles or apparatus erected or use
V by the company for the purpose of tn
= contract except poles or undergroun
wires that may be erected by the villag
T. 1t is mutually agreed that while the vi
d lage has the right to erect special pol,
J. or fixtures or to run underground wire
for some of the lamps it Is under I
obligation to furnish or erect any pole
l. fixtures or wires.
= If the company faithfully performs a
; of its obligations the village agrees
> accept and pay for the lamps to II
> number of at least $50 and for any add
t tional number that the village NAV ord,
u in writing, at the rate of 500 each p,
year in equal sums, under the followir
- conditions
If any one of the lamps fails to bun
at any time that 1t Is required to bur
a rebate of five tenths cent per hour
such failure to burn shall be deducte
after the company has been notified
such failure.
II any one Of the lamps is operate
with less than 100 true watts betwee
Its terminals, rebate of two one-hur
dredths cent per hour for each watt tn,
Is lacking shall be deducted.
IT, however. any one of the lamps
operated with less than so watts no con
pensation shall be paid for such lam
during the time it Is so operated.
If any one of the lamps gives less tina
70 mean horizontal candle power withol
a reflector with the amperes OF II
street circuit, and II the village give
the company written notice that sue
candle power Is below 70, then a rebat
of three tenths cent per hour shall /
deducted during the time 1t is so operat
ed after such notice.
The foregoing provisions as to rebate
do not imply a right on the part OF tn
company to neglect to operate any on
of the lamps or to operate any lamp wit
less than 100 watts between its terminals
or to operate any lamp that gives les
than ~ mean horizonal candle powt
| when used without reflector
If the village removes any lamp from
circuit for the purpose of testing 1t. no II
bate shall be made during a period of fly
hours after the village gives the compan
written notice of It's removal. and unles
such lamp Is returned to the compan
| the village shall furnish n new lamn {