The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-17
FILE PETITION
FOR NEW PLAN
TO LIGHT CITY
rhirty-five Property Owners
Start Program of Works
! Board to Insure Ornament
! al System.

"A petition for the installation Of an
ornamental lighting system. wires to
be placed in conduits, for the business
Dection of Main street and the north
bnd business district was presented to
The board of public works this morn
ing. The board ordered a resolution
10 be prepared.
A few weeks ago the board let a
contract for new street lighting
system, but refused to provide any
kind of an ornamental system for the
pended from trolley poles by brackets.
unless a petition of affected property
owners was filed. Just before the con-
tract was let the board decided not to
Install the proposed bracket system
and to provide only corner lamps for
the business districts pending the de-
cision of property owners in these
districts whether they should petition
for the ornamental-conduit system,
which procedure the board demanded
before it would consider the question.
To Order Improvement.
Now that this question has been
brought before the board in manner
it deems to be legal it will be con-
provement will be ordered. Then, in
the event the resolution is success
fully demonstrated against, the board
will refer the matter to council, which
has the authority to order the improve.
ment over the remonstrance If the
resolution is not successfully remon-
strated against the board will pro-
coed to advertise for bids on the i'm,
provement. let the contract and order
the work to proceed.
The petition presented to the board
today was signed by thirty-five prop.
erty owners, some of them resident
property owners. No general canvass
of property owners to secure sigma
lures to the petition was attempted by
the Commercial club committee, for
only ono petitioner would have been
required to bring the matter before
the board. The prompt response OF
those who we're approached with the
petition, however, shows that the pro
tect is popular with the business men
Waive Remonstrance.
The petition asks for an ornamental
the bridge to Thirteenth street; on
Eighth street from Main to North and
South A streets and from d street tC
E street; on Fort Wayne avenue from
Seventh street to Eighth street and or
North E street from Eighth street tc
Tenth street.
The petitioners agree to waive all
rights and privileges to demonstrate
and contract to meet the payments
assessed against them, but not to ex
coed the extra cost over and above the
cost of installing bracket system
exclusive of the cost of lamps
The petition is signed by the follow
ing: Henry Goldfinger, w. H. Romey
Dickinson Trust company, G. H. Knoll
lenberg, T. H. Hill, G. H. Eggemeyer
John A. Evans, Peter Husson, Heller
NJ. Miller. NJ. c. Henley, r. H. Randle
z. NJ. Campfield. Farmers Trust com
pany, G.. A. Campfield, Richmond
Realty company, Second Nationa
bank, Neff & Nusbaum company, S. E
Swayne, Adam H. Bartel company
Jones Hardware company. J. w
Grubbs company, Miller Brothers com
pany. H. V. McLeland, I. r. Howard &
company, J. ]. Harrington, Starr Piano
company, J. H. Potts, A. L. Bramkamp
w. d. Foulke, First National bank
Minck Brewing company, Edward
Roser and G.. T. Price