The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-10-23
ARCS ARE CHOSEN
Committees Select Post 20 be Used and
Direct Wisconsin Gas and Electric
Company to submit Detailed PROPOSE
ton for a Ten Year Contract.

Final action IN regard to the decora-
tive light system to be installed IN the
downtown district of the city was
taken at joint meeting of the council
committee on gas and light and the
special lighting committee of The Ke7
nosha Retailers association held at the
Elks club on Friday evening and it is
expected that the council will be in pos
session of all the details connected with
the proposed system at the meeting to
be held on Monday evening.
The joint committee by an unanimous
vote decided to change the plan for
merly made and adopt the luminous ere
system in place of the cluster tungsten
system. This action was taken on the
unanimous report of the committee
which had gone to Green Bay to look
into the two systems of lighting. This
committee held that the luminous arc
system offered nearly four times the
amount Of light furnished by the clus-
ter tungstens at price about the same
and that the system was greatly to be
preferred. The joint committee select
ed a style of post TO be used for Ke-
nosha It is a post twelve feet in
height from the base to the center of
the lamp globe, graceful in design, ar
tistic, but at the same time not Ftfus-
tsy.' It is a standard post that has
been adopted in many cities where the
luminous arcs are in use.
Figures were submitted by the Wis
consin Gas and Electric company or the
system as proposed and these will make
the cost of the lights per front foot
in the. nei gbborhood of 70 cents per
year. The agents of the company were
instructed to send to the committee at
once detailed proposal showing just
what the company proposed TO do and
the cost at which it was to be done.
The cost of the luminous arcs will be
almost exactly the same as that pro
posed for the tungsten clusters, not
withstanding the fact that the light
furnished win be nearly four times AS
great.
The committee voted that any propo-
sition from the company must provide
that the equipment become the property
of the city at the eod of the ten year
period. The company would prefer
to maintain ownership of this equip
ment but the committee declared IN ia
vor of following the original contract
offered by the company which provided
that the equipment be turned over to
the city at the end of the tie nyear con-
ract period.
| With she unanimous action of the
committee the company will at once
place an order for the installing of the
light posts on Wisconsin street from Elk
change to Chicago street and at the
same time equipment will be ordered
to take care Of the other streets named
in the special district. It is expected
that the lights on all streets where a
sufficient number of signers can be Sc
cured will be installed on or before the
! first day of December. Representa-
tives of the manufacturers of the posts
were present at the meeting and they
declared that pests could be shipped to
Kenosha within ten days after the order
is received.
+ On account of the change in the sys-
tenn it viii be necessary to have a new
petition circulated on the several
streets but it is thought certain that
the success of the movement viii in no
way be jeopardized by the change or
dered by the committee and thar all
property owners who favored the orig