The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-02-08
TO Be INSTALLED BY MAY Is
New Lights Will Mike Kenosha One Of
the Best Lighted Cities in Middle
West-Purrington Brick to be Used
on Exchange st. and Schwan Court.

meeting Of the common council on
Monday evening the city made cen
tract with the Kenosha Electric Rail-
way Company for the installation of
one hundred additional street lamps
and the old plan Of having street
lamp at every street intersection will
soon be realized.
The contract provides for the in
stallation of one hundred lights of 100
watt capacity Of what is known as
the Tungsten series street lamps. They
are TO be installed at the points di-
rected by the city by the 18th of
next May and the city is to pay for
them at a rate of $25 for year. This
cost is to cover the cost of installation
and maintenance. The contract will
run until the expiration Of the regular
lighting contract on August 90, 1914.
The contract was granted to the com
pany without division of the council.
1t was shown that the charge made for
the lights was fair price as compar-
ed with other Wisconsin cities. In Ra-
cine the city is paying $21 a year for
go watt lamp under ten year con-
tract.
Several aldermen who had been in
terested in securing competition for all
municipal contracts had sought to Sc
cure bid for the contract from the
Kenosha Gas and Electric Company,
but this company had refused to COM
pete with the railway company for the
contract. AS there was no other pub
lie utility company that could make
proposition for the lights and as the
aldermen were unanimous in the belief
that the lights should be installed at
the earliest possible time it was de-
cided to accept the contract offered by
the railway company. The work of
installing the lights will be started
Just as soon as the weather will per-
NIT and whea it is completed it is
declared that Kenosha will be one of
the best lighted if not the best lighted
city in the state. The contract for the
new lights is practically the same as
that under which the arch lamps are
being operated. Tt provides for an all
night service and makes the usual pro-
visions for outage.
The contract has clause IN which it
is declared that the contract shall be
subject to all regulations provided for
i'm the public utilities act and if the
city feels that the price asked for the
lights is too high it will be possible to
have an investigation made by the
commission and permit the commission
to determine the price to be paid by
the city. 1t is not thought that on
such short time contract the commits
sion would be willing to make any re
duction in the rate.
The lighting contract was the most
interesting matter to come before the
council. With the opening of the SEES
sion Fred P. Browning of Madison, ap-
peared before the council and made
lengthy talk on the necessity of the
city naming a sealer of weights and
measures. He told of conditions in the
state and in Kenosha and the talk bore
fruit for later in the meeting the coun-
ell paved the way for the appointment
of the new official by fixing the salary
of the Office at 5000 a year. 1t is
probable that the mayor will name
city sealer before the next meeting of
the council.
A petition was sent to the council
asking that the property at the conner
of Garden and Newell street be taken
into the saloon district. Tt was re-
ferred to the committee on licenses
and during the next two weeks the
people in that part of the city will
have q chance to demonstrate against
the granting of the petition.
The ordinance for the annexation of
a portion of the town Of Pleasant
Prairie directly south Of The city was
presented to the council, but no action
was taken on it. The members of the
council believe that i larger piece Of
property should be annexed and to this
end the city attorney was directed to
take the matter up with the property
90, Acr. and see If some provision
could not be made by which the prop
erty could be properly annexed to the
second ward of the city.
The Kenosha Gentlemen s Driving
club was given permission 10 use Dur
kee avenue as a speedway for one
hour on three afternoons of the week
with the understanding that the club
viii provide proper police protection
for the street and not make the use
of it obnoxious to the property owners.
The permit may be revoked at any
time the use of the roadway as
speedway becomes nuisance.
the contract for the dig sewers on
the vest side was formally awarded to