Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
TO SWITCH MORE
LIGHT ON CITY
Council Passes on First Read
ing Third Street Lighting
Measure


Council to-day advanced another
step toward providing lighter and
brighter city by passing upon first
reading Commissioner H. f. Bow
mans ordinance authorizing the clos
ing of the contract between the mu-
nicipality and the Harrisburg Light
and Power company for lighting Third
street from North to Calder with A
Mazda-type single standard electric
lights. The lamps will be ready for
switching into service by the Christ
mas holidays and material for the new
installation is ordered or on the way.
The contract price will be s7.915.
In the 1917 budget Mr.. Bowman
says he will continue the program by
| Incorporating enough money to insure
similar illumination of Federal
Square.
For More Arc Lights
Another ordinance offered by Mr..
Bowman provides for the placing OF
1000 candle power arc lights at the
following points:
Walnut and Aberdeen; Rolleston
and Sycamore; SHELLS and Hetrick;
Nineteenth and Kensington; Twenty
sixth and Greenwood; Nineteenth and
Bellevue; Twentieth and Bellevue;
Zarker, $50 feet east of Nineteenth:
Twelfth and Reilly; Twelfth and
Muench: Schuylkill and jefferson;
Fifth and Mahantongo; Second and
Shamokin; Fourth and Seneca; Fifth
and Woodbine: Penn and PETER, and
James and Calder streets. Sixty
candle power incandescents will be
| located as follows:
Albert alley between Fifteenth and
sixteenth: alley. parallel with Nau-
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and between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. .
Twenty and Berryhill; Helen
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Fourteenth and Howard and Herr and
Currant.
In Bellevue Park
Standards in Bellevue park will be
| lighted as follows: Twenty-first and
Market: Twentieth and Holly; Chest
nut between Twenty first and Twenty
second: Bellevue road between
Twenty and Twenty-second: !:
Bellevue road between Twenty-second
and Twenty-third; Bellevue road and
Pentwater; Oakwood road about 200
feet east of Briarcliff road.
Other new ordinances offered to-day
included:
BY Mr.. Bowman: Authorizing low
ering and changing water pipe in
Swatara street from Twenty first to
a point 525 feet eastward.
BY Mr.. Lynch: Authorizing grading
of Susquehanna Gilac) street from
Emerald to Seneca; placing Bailey
street. from Twelfth to a point los
feet westwardly to the Messiah Res
cue home, on city map.
| All, New Auto For Police!
BY Mayor Meals: Authorizing pur-
chase of light automobile runabout
Tor police department at a cost of
$500. This will be used according to
the mayor as a sort of an emergency
car for the use of the department
The money will be appropriated from
balance remaining from appropriation
allowed for policemen's salaries.
BY Mr.. Gorgas: Authorizing the
sinking fund commissioners to REISSUE
at least $4,000 worth of Improvement
bonds as provided for the paving
OF Front street from Maclay to Divis-
ion street. This is the balance that
has been authorized by the city in
1914 when $4,000 was directed to be
set aside for paving in front of non
assessable properties.
To DiSinfect Sewage
Council passed finally the ordin-
ances appropriating $4,000 to provide
temporary sewage disinfectant plants
to guard towns down the river from
! typhoid contagion. and $1,000 for the
services of an expert engineer to as
slst in preparing plans for a disposal
plant.
The commissioners also granted
Fred c. Seiber permission to relocate
his soap and dye plant, which occu-
pied a site for fifty years in the park
extension zone, to a plot fronting
on Shanois street, between the penn.
sylvania railroad and Paxton creek
Because Councils first November
meeting. Tuesday, November 7 occurs
on election day, Council decided to
meet in regular session on Monday.
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