The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-13
WILL ADVERTISE FOR BIDS
/ City Council Committee VIII Ask for
Bids for Proposed Decorative Lights
to Meet ALI Provisions of the Law
Contract to be Ready Soon

Members Of the special lighting com
mittee of the Kenosha Retailers Assoc
citation, the members of the lighting
committee of the common council and
the officials of the Wisconsin Gas and
Electric Company, including Vice Presi-
dent Way, who is at the head of the
electric service of the company, met in
a three hour session yesterday at which
time final action was taken on the plans
for the decorative lighting. The coun-
ell committed voted unanimously to
advertise for bids for the contract for
the proposed lights, holding that
Nstrict following of the law would make
This necessary. AS part of the cost
Of the lights is to be assessed against
the property owners it is necessary to
take this course. This will delay the
work, of putting in the lights little
and it win not be possible for the coun-
ell to let the contract for the Lights at
the the next regular meeting. The
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company is
the only company that can bid on the
contract. The officials of the company
have not as yet given out their figures
but it is said that they will be close
ITO figures submitted to the committee
some time ago. Mr.. Way discussed the
matter Of the price of the lights with
the committee on Sunday and declared
that the company has figured out as low
"a price as it thought was possible, but
he insisted that any price offered.
would be subject to review by the
TailroaG commission.
The price is slightly in advance of
The price that has been expected, but
at that it is lower than the price
charged for the same lights in Green
bay and the cost to Kenosha merchants
will be less than one-half the cost Of
inferior lights to the merchants of
Racine. The price as indicated by the
lOficials Of the electric company on
SUNDAY would be between sixty and
seventy cents a front foot to the niers
schants with the city paying one-third
Cf the cost of installation and main
Ftenance.
The committee took up the question
Pof the lights to be burned all night on
1.-THE schedule and it was proposed to
stagger" the all night lights on each
Nof the streets, this promising an album
EsSance of light on all parts Of the street
EaE all hours Of the, might The question
Eof the contract will come before the
council probably at the first meeting
i'm December. The ordinance giving the
city the right to~contract for these
lights will probably be passed at the
next meeting of the council and this
will give the council a chance to act
just as soon as The contract has been
properly advertised. Both the council
committee and the committee of the
retailers association believe that it
would be poor policy for the city to
divide the contract permitting one com
pany to install the lights and purchase
electrical energy for them from an
other company. 1t was held that such
"a plan would be the cause of constant
trouble and that a single company
handling the entire contract was great
ly to be preferred The entire expen-
6iture for the lights now planned.
sixty-four in number, viii be less than
$4,000 a year.