The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-04
.l0-YR. CONTRACT
. TO LIGHT STREETS
HAS BEEN SIGNED

been under consideration for some time
Prior meetings TO the number of two
saw the council returning the tentative
document to the committee with in
structions to alter. Last night the sug'
gested changes had been made at q
conference of the committee Manager
c. +. Millar of the lighting company and
City Attorney Il. l.. Scott. With the
assistance of the latter, the document
was put into shape at the last session
of the council.
The contract is exhaustive as to de-
tail and is conceded to cover every point
of contention that may possibly arise.
The sum to be paid by the city for
the lighting is approximately $4,000 !
year and the Consolidated Co. is straight
way TO install new system of 200 c. p.
series tungsten incandescent lamps that
will replace in large measure the arc
| lights now in use. 1t is dated from
! Nov. |, when the former contract en-
/ pired. The names of the lighting com
! mittee were attached to the document
last night and the contract in the pres
ence of the city clerk, who has duly
recorded the contract.
Aside from the fact that several points
of legality came up in the discussion
of the rehabilitated draft, the contract
was viewed with satisfaction by every
member of the board. ExMayor Har-
yey Hersey dropped in while the clerk
was reading the draft and it is need
less to say that the venerable ex-mayor
was one of the interested listeners. As
he afterwards explained, he was moved
to attend the meeting because he be-
lieved the council proposed to bind the
city to a ten-year contract with no pro.
visions for changes or Improvements in
the manner of lighting. At the close OF
the reading, Mr. Jersey addressed the
council in his customary vigorous Ian
guage and closed by voicing his salts
faction over the contract.
In the course of his remarks, ex-May-
or Hersey pointed out the wonderful
strides which are being made in cleo
trical science and he predicted day
when wireless message could circle
the globe eight times before man
could pronounce the word electricity"
Mr.. Jersey also referred to the in
evitable waste of light and looked for
ward to time when economy could
record the conservation of light as one
VI nti SIEdJtob nv
speaker held the close attention of the /
men around the table.
1t was Alderman Ward who moved
that the contract be dated from Nov. ],
1912. He was seconded by Alderman
Patterson, and the latter soon after
wards moved that the contract as drawn
up and amended be approved for sigma
ture. His motion WIS carried unani-
mously.
Prices of the Lights.
The contract is dated 70 operate from
Nov. l. 1912, to ten years from the
lay unless sooner terminated as per the
terms and conditions therein after con
tanned. The Consolidated Co. furnishes
20 or more arc electric lights as may
be designated for the sum of SOL per
year per lamp, the lamps to be known
Is six and six-tenths ampere alternat-
ng enclosed are lights; 200 c. p. tung-
stem series incandescent lamps to the
number of 100 or more as the council
shall designate for the sum of S4s per !
amp per year; 60 C. p. tungsten series
ncandescent lamps to the number of I
20 or more as shall be designated for ,
he sum of $3.50 per lamp per year. /
90 c. p. tungsten series incandescent !
amps to the number of two or more I
IS shall be designated at cost of $1,000 !
'er year per lamp. J
The above prices are based on ten I
ear contract, which if terminated soon |
r, compel the city to pay on grad )
lated scale according to the number of {
ears already in use. The lighting COM =
ANY is to furnish and maintain all !
pplianee, care for the lamps, repair and Q
aint all fixtures when necessary. Priv {
eges for erection and maintenance are E
iven the company by the city. c
May Retain Some Arc Lights. t
Barre may retain twenty or more OF =
he arc lights now existing, all Others I
o be replaced by 200 c. p. tungsten :
cries incandescent lamps by June |, y
D that the completed system may be
! good working condition. On the or Y
er of the council, the arcs retained
lay be changed for the 200 c. p. lights =
the location makes it appear de- a
BILE. A description of all lamps to be !, =
sed and the current required for their !
peration is set forth, the company u
yreeing to furnish what shall be known u
Y the subscribed scale as No. | stand p
I'd. Lights shall be operated continu =
lsly from dusk until daylight Car. az
,ns shall be of the best quality now in ;,
Sc and should they be improved upon, y
lie city shall benefit by the improve .
ent. Lamps shall be of the best quail. v y
Y, free from lettering. burn uniformly, "
Id replaced when they become inopera. "
We. u'
Company Must Inspect Vigorously. C,
As TO apparatus, it shall be thorough. b
installed and so placed and cared la
r as NOT TO exnose publie or Dron. n,