The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-14
THE DAILY EVENING TE1FGRAPH Pin ApELPHA FR1DAY DECE

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These SontEsctS n we're given out without loyItips
eontTsots save those In tbe year issI FOR coal oil tue
me M ss Aps bee. done By tnS OrshisT 70 his
Of sts 7ss 81 was owing to the hlga prices Of coal
81 the Tr1S rus IN sRar the the % Pebc lamps
%Ss % Of & the from
year u the coal used in 1865 had te well carbon
ton in good gas had been equal to their sVorsgs i The
gas asG been sP0 5SHSy PoOS being
feet conld not have resolved themselves into tar neph
s % ps5S sRa y Ni
iSson Of the coal he total loss the waste Of these
wonld have been no loss on that year, the figures
price Of coal the demand for labor aSd
the loss sustained in lighting the public lamps, is
The facts established by the of Lamps
weeks we're zig an hour later and pat out hour
on IN %GsS & tSsS Sey
to have betn by reason of short supply of gas aud
SS Gns put e hs5 SS tS
%oGG os Of hPUsSdd ds
1t Is feature against the mansgement that they
nRss s R@
iGr % gss but sSId az tse whSs sm9G9iPg to S3
WA Mith proLer energy in the administration Of aars
II has beer proved By the testimony of Mr.. Howell
superintendent of public lamps that the meter lamp at
Fifth and cherry streets was permitted to burn for
the hsa
T a on the s0S & assa % s Ss
waste to II, but It would enable the trustees
10 Sn fi basis as
the n wSS 1ay Of Es gas suc
from its want Of illuminating power, yet she is
a%o Nc 81 She The 81
supply Of gas for burners consuming six feet per
what she paid for more than she received 1t is hard
If the loss thus sustained by the city be added the
h % S 10 aen s nG IN 9Sn re- WE
q course the trustees are not respooslbeD faint
sS may be formed of the tax she pays for
:. The manner in which the books and accounts
common one and the system would prove very unsatis
orr tho to TE@te % e, bTmSS house The
limited character Under the method now praotised
leaves eysryt6ns in OOEded condition. So far @ as
If the system Of Keeping accounts introduced by
cashiers was the same and no better than
puzzled TO get It's 1anes condtO4 Alter
tr;iing their proper and preceding officer without
t6siT number fna It out. These took
shTs
msnt and retention Of it HsSns t IT. the laws which will
snd We al produosd
r TSm9q TSm9qntips tp the sum Of 'N, ''s sl,2ss7OO
per cent. per annum, 10000
m, A total of s1,85I,7OO
Agg.S ~ tU ;{S9S 5SoSsFy l. 1866 siss.22ssS9 sis.2s9
For Germantown up to January l, 1856, $3.50
Added since, 2,4OO
For Manayunk up to January /, 1866, $1,000
Added since, 2,lOO
e, yss!s ai;sH?as Chr. g:.s =, to ,.ae.', '
AS far back 1858, the then Chief Engineer ohm o.
Es and OF Ss the tSs of %
Chief Engineer Stewart his report for 1854,
ssam no to aSs Ss the s sh G
a 0
ase The dissstrous effects Of STowdIng the Re;
loved by an interior coke while mains have been laid
SsGs It's to BsIg hc
When gas is and there is pressure for it in
supply and is hours without it, is proved and is
equal to the demand This shows not only a want of
capacity in them, but also want of capacity in their
sheuld heye been foreseen and carefully guarded
ers in waste Of COAL the City from want Of light at the
most important season from the benefits to be de-
In pecem9SeT, 1854; Councils made an appropriation
Works. Instead Of the immediate application Of this
fund to ts legitimate purpose nearly Of it
small works at a. ayunk, and that when it
known that the holder at Ninth and Diamond station
he'd been constructed for the of receiving and
distributing gas throughout this northern sec ion,
and from which they had eventually to supply Ger
mantown,
The new retort house should have been built year
or two agoi not only 1t, but what OF more
all its distributing and connecting mains.
The works are unequal to the labor now impose |
upon them in certain conditions Of the weather. III
the s subject to such contingencies what wi
the future encounter What forethought has been
hibited here, the want of which may at any moment
subject the city to total darkness for is established
by the testimony of Mr. Elliott that in night the
while the capacity of the works is not more than
S,6C0 200 cubic feet in twenty four hours. The
mttee submit to the consideration Of the Board and
the Ohief Engineer the following propositions:
What benefit to the consumers or to the city for O
full supply Of will be the retort house being
built at Poirt Breeze, even If at this time nshedY
Supposing 1t finished with pipes into the present holder
at Point Breeze coald that tact add any avaia-
BILE or distributing capacity Why was not the
the advantage of whole glaring capacity and weight
and why the one half of it cut awayp Is the
city of the holder at that point together with its
duct mains to MeSket and Mi1iin streets stations,
than suficiL the conveyan Of gas ade by
the present worAST supposng the new retort house,
built with all ITS appendages at the point with its
Quoting main to the distributing holder on Market
city and citizens would all this outlay In cash be-
there not sufficient storage room to receive the yield
of the old retortsl
Leakage aud WdSte,-In the annual report for 1865
page the loss which is put down to hs alone
amounts to the enormous quantity Of l2 49549 cub