The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-12-21
CITY REGULATES
ELECTRIC WIRES
ORDINANCE NECESSITATES CHANGE
New Law Will Require Reconstruction of
Many Lines in City Limits PurchaS-
erS Find Defect in Bonds.


presented to them at the meeting of
the council last week by the electrical
workers of the city, the Board of
Aldermen at Monday nights meeting
put on final passage an ordinance, the
clauses of which effect a material
change in the construction of electrical
wires in the city within the next 80
days. The most important sections of
the ordinance read as follows:
Section l. No commission, officer,
agent, or employe of the City of Hood
River, nor shall any person, partner
ship, or corporation whomsoever,
(a) nun, place, erect or maintain. in
the said City of Hood River, any wire
or cable used to conduct or carry cleo
tricity on any pole Tor on any cross
arm, bracket, or other appliance at
tached to such pole) within distance
of Is inches from the center line of
said pole; provided, that where it is
necessary to change the direction of
the pole wire at an angle of more than
10 degrees, the said pole wire may be
strung not less than l3 inches from the
center line of said pole; and provided
further, that the foregoing provisions
of this paragraph (2l shall be held not
to apply to such wires or cables in
cases on poles, nor to bride" or
Jumper" wires on any pole which are
attached to or connected with the
signal wires of the same pole, nor
to any "aerial' cable, as between such
cable and any pole on which 1t origi.
mates or terminates, nor to wires run
from Circuit" wires to arc lamps
placed upon or suspended from any
bracket attached to poles, nor to any
wire or cable where the same is at
tached to the top of the pole, as be-
tween it and the said pole, nor to wires
or cables strung within fifteen 05l
inches from the center line of any pole
and within four feet from the top
thereof in instances where there are no
wires or cables on the opposite side of
the said pole, nor to multiple cables
running vertically upon the pole to the
top thereof in instances where there
are no wires or cables within a dis
tance of l3 inches from the center line
of such pole. The wire or cable run
IL or Is inches from the center line OF
the pole shall be known as the pole
wire.
(e) Run, place. erect or maintain in
said City of Hood River, any guy"
wire or guy" cable attached to any
pole or appliance to which is attached
any wire or cable used to carry or CON
duct electricity without causing said
tguy" wire or guy" cable to be kept
effectively insulated at all times at a
/ distance OF not il. than six feet nor
more than eight feet (measured along
the line of said wire or cable) from
upper end thereof.
(f) Run, place, erect. or maintain,
in said City of Hood River, vertically
on any pole any wire or cable used to
carry or conduct electricity without
causing such wire or cable to be at all
times encased in a casing of wooden
material not less than quarters
of an inch in thickness Tor a distance
of four feet from the point of crossing
any wire or cable carrying or conduct
ing electricity at any time provided,
however, that the provisions of this
paragraph (D shall not apply to wile
run from circuit wires to are lamps
placed upon poles, nor to crossing wire
where none of such wires carries more
than $50 volts Of electricity, nor to any
vertical wire which is more than l3
inches from center line of pole.
ID Run, erect, place, or maintain
in said City of Hood River, any wire
or cable carrying or conducting cleo
tricity on any cross-arm unless there
is clear space of not less than II
inches between each end of said cross
arm and the nearest wire to such end,
or run, erect, place or mainti In in said
City of Hood River any pole to which
are attached two separate lines of
wires crossing each other at right
angles, unless such pole is equipped
with double cross-arms. Provided,
however, that the foregoing provisions
of this paragraph shall not apply to
poles or cross-arms in cases where
such poles and cross arms are used eX-
clusively for telephone and telegraph
wires.
Section Amy person, persons, CO
partnership, association or corporation,
or any member, officer, or managing
agent, of any corporation, association,
or co-partnership. violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance, upon con-
viction thereof, shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding two hundred dollars,
or Imprisonment not exceeding one
hundred days, or by both such fine or
Imprisonment Provided. no violation
of any Of the provisions of this 0rdi-
nance shall be held to alise or exist by
reason of the temporary location of
any wire or pole or cable or cross-arm
so
! placed or erected
The provisions of the new ordinance
will effect to great extent the Pacific
Power 4 Light Co, which will have to
make numerous changes in its wiring.
The Hydro Electric Co. will be slightly
effected 1t will find it necessary to
order new cross-arma to comply with
the city ordinance.
A letter was received from Mrs.
+. G. Hansberry, of Seaside, through
her agent, ?. d. Tweedy, asking for a
settlement of the interest due on de,
ferred payment for Heights lots, which
the city contemplates using in cOnnec-
tion with its municipal water system
The communication was referred tC
the Finance committee with power tC
act, as was communication from l.
A. Henderson, who notified the counci
that he was ready to give bond in the
sum desired by them.
Two electrical workers Of the city
A. l.. Muvaney and F. r. Howard
employees, as it is understood, Of th,
Pacific Power g. Light CO.. asked tina
their names be withdrawn from tn,
recent petition asking a change in thr
construction of wiring of electrica
companies in the city.
Owing to an impossibility to Civ
proper specifications for estimates, a
was stated at the meeting of the couE
ell, fire escapes had not yet been con
structed on any of the two story build
ings of the city. The marshall re
ported that he had seen owners of tn
buildings and that work complyin
with the city's laws would be under