South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-09
LIGHT CONTRACT
IS RATIFIED At
COUNCIL SESSION

BY a vote or seven TO three which
| has become proverbiei in dealing
with the municipal lighting question
! that has been before the common
I council for the past several weeks.
I that body ratified the contract be-
4 tween the Indiana * Michigan Elec-
| trio Co, and the board Of public
/ works at it's session Monday night
\ This fixes the rate for city light for
/ the next 10 years, the city to pay
| the lighting company approximately
/ $4,000 q year, unless that rate is
| changed by the state public utilities
! commission.
The contract was not ratified, how
\ ever. without another fight, though
! the gallery was less packed with lis
/ teners than at the two previous ses-
sions at which the question came up
/ The dissentiOn came when the maicr
| ity report from the committee of the
! whole was submitted for adoption,
I Councilman Fink submitting a minor
2 ily report in which II was recon-
Enended that the ordinance do not
pass.
Fink, and Councilmen Rice and
! Buechner spoke in favor of the minor
\ ity report, their contentious being
1ombatted from the floor by Pres
| Howard and Councilmen Hagerty
/ Mccullough and Haas. The argu-
/ ment on both sides was the same as
( heard at the previous meetings. and
! the vote stood the same, Rice, Fink
I and Buechner standing out against
! ehe adoption of the contract.
Was Ordinance Night.
/ Monday night was real ordinance
/ night with the members OF the coun-
/ Gil, but all other ordinances went
! through without combet [, and the pro-
| cess was less cumbersome. In con-
/ sequence Lafayette st. from Monroe
st. TO Riverside drive; St. Louis st.
/ from South Bend av to Colby St, and
/ Riverside drive from Marion st. to
/ ANGELA av.. have been formally
| transferred to the jurisdiction OF the
park commission to become part
/ of the city's driveway and boulevard
/ system, and $2,765 have been trans
! ferred from the general fund to the
! park fund for use in their improve
| ment.
An ordinance introduced by Coun-
Gilman Rice and finally passed under
| a suspension Of the rules, transfers
! $40, 900 from the general fund to the
/ borrowed by the general fund March
] /, 1910, when it was found that the
| waterwOrks had money in the bank
/ drawing two per cent while the city
was borrowing money at four per
cent. This was not considered good
| business by City Controller Joyce,
| who advised the loan from the water
/ department fund. the recommended
! ton going with the ordinance that
| the time has now come when the
water board needs the money itself,
| hence the repayment
Then came an ordinance on recon-
mendation of 90 merchants requiring
movers of household goods for hire,
/ to report to the city clerk each Mon
| day the names of all parties whose
/ goods they have moved during the
| previous week, giving the address
! from which and to which the moving
/ took place. A penalty of $40 is i'm
! posed for failure TO report. The or
! dinance went 10 the committee of the
whole. The apparent purpose is TO
/ enable merchants to keep track of
their debtors as they move from
| place to place throughout the city. or
if they leave town, where their goods
are shipped to.
An ordinance was also passed by
! first and second reading and went to
| the committee of the whole, trans
| ferring all moneys TO the general
! fund of the city as paid to the treas
| urer for damages to the property of
/ the Sanders-Egbert Co, and Joseph
i
| opening of Union ST. The property
for the opening of this street was
condemned in accordance with a
resolution passed in 1910, but an
! agreement was entered into between
| the above parties and the board of
public works, July 81, 1913, by which
| the damages need not he paid until
July 1. 1917, hence the ordinance
providing for the use of the money
by placing it in the general fund until
that time.
The question of an increase Of sal
airy for the city firemen came before
the council anG went to the commit
tee of the whole. with the invitation
that the board of public safety attend
the hearing.
w. w. Eldridge. DR.. Charles r.
Vickery. Myron Campbell. w L.
Kiser. George Ford. Mrs. *. c. De
Rhodes and Mrs c. NJ. IJaeske. a
committee representing the Melting
Pot division of the Commercial Ath-
letic club. appeared before the cOun-
I ell asking for change of name Of
several streets to honor several South
I Bend pioneers.
In a lengthy petition, citing rea-
sons for their recommendations and
/ eulogizing the names they would COM
memOrate. they asked that the name
of South st. be changed to Brownfield
| Leland av TO BorrOughs av.; First st.
70 Badin av.: Second st. 20 DeSeille
/ av.: Third st. to Petit av.: Fourth
I st. to Madeline av.: Fifth st. TO
I ChandOnia av.; Sixth st. TO Kenzie
I av. Seventh ST. to LaClaire av; and
/ Eighth st. TO Brunette av.
Brunette. LeClaire and Kenzie were
I early fur traders at the post Of South
Bend. the latter being the founder
7 Of Chicago.
Charles ChandOnia was soldier in
/ the war OF 1912. and an early pioneer.
Madeline was a daughter of the
! Miami chief, Topanabe, and though
an Indian. became the wife OF Joseph
! Bertrand, the founder of Bertrand,
Mich.
The committee also asked that
Chief Topanabe be hOnOred by nam
/ ing the artificial lake a Pottawato-
mic park after him. and suggested
that the woods at the park be named
/ "Pokagan woods"
Fl. Badin. F'r. DeSeille and F'r.
Petit. were missionary priests in the