The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-08-19
Main Street Business Man
Admits He Represents
Only Himself in Ornamen-
tai Light Proposition.
CITY STANDS PAT
Approximately 81, 100 Divides
Property Owner and Off
cials -Bavis Demands Au-
thorized Representative.

when e. M. Campdeld, who has
been endeavoring for several days to
reach some satisfactory understand.
ing with Mayor Robbins and members
Of the board OF public works in re.
gard to installing an ornamental
lighting system on Main street from
Four to Eleventh streets. refused to
submit his proposal to the board in
writing President Bavis In turn in.
formed Campfeld that the board
would not place itself on record as to
whether it was opposed to or favored
the plan outlined yesterday by Camp.
field. s... -
Campbell then declared that so far
as he was concerned he would make
no other effort to provide display
lighting system for the business dis
trict Of Main street and President
Bavis told him he was perfectly sat.
isfied to have him cease his activities
along this line.
New Movement Dies.
AS a result of the row between the
board president and Campbell today,
the movement to provide Main street
with an ornamental lighting system
begun two years ago, will require
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Mayor Robbins and President Bavis
emphatically declared today the terms
specified by the administration in re.
gard to installing display lighting sys.
TENS are fnal and irrevocable. These
terms provide that the business men
interested must meet the entire ex.
pense of purchasing and installing the
lamps and standards, the city agree
ing to furnish the current without
charge and to provide for the main
tenance of the lamps.
Campbell informed the board that
he would be willing to undertake to
secure a petition for an ornamental
system in the business district OF
Main street if the city would agree to
purchase two of the four standards
for each intersection, furnish the cur.
rent without charge and maintain the
lamps, the business men to purchase
all the other lamps and standards and
defray the cost of installing the entire
system.
It would cost the city only about
$1,100 more to install the Main street
lighting system under the Campbell
plan than under the administration s
plan.
President Bavis inquired Of Camp
field If there was such small amount
standing between the Main street
merchants and the city In reaching a
working agreement why the mer
chants did not assume the entire in.
stallation cost He said he thought
the terms offered by the city were
more than fair. Mayor Robbins re-
marked that it would cost the city
$500 additional year to illuminate
an ornamental system In the retail
district
When Campheld refused to submit
proposition In writing to the board
Bavis, in hun. asked him who gave
him the authority to appear before the
board as the spokesman OF the Main
street business men.
Campbell stated that he was rep
resenting nobody but himself, but that
he and four other business men whe
appeared before the board yesterday
were interested In having display
lighting for Main street and that Il
they could obtain satisfactory pro
posal from the city they were willing
to attempt to secure q petition fol
such system.
The only proposition on which
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