Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20

8IEssRs. EDITORS AT the risk Of being
tedious 70 your readers, VIII reply to the
article in your last issue written by some one
over the signature Of ]. g. Evans. Ha is So
aEood at figures generally that ft IS hard
for him to come down 70 "loW prices" His
personalities have nothing to do with this
question, but are only ssdodges7 OF his to
draw attention from the ISSUE Neither his
standing as a banker or uachinisG, nor mine
- a LAWYER a drawn ia question The ~ n,
thing the public want TO know shave the
officers faithfully and economically eXpend-
There are several inaccuracies in Mr..
Evans article viz: There was no drayage
old lamps was not $500, but $50 each; the
price Of the frames 81 90 he never agreed
70 furnish posts and lamp frames at al8y5o-ib
was only posts tne price OF the PttL6burg
posts was $3.50, but they threw on so cents
each In consequence Of the expense of fitting
the lamps to the posts Had Mr. Evans 0T-
he would have found the following 70 be the
trlte account:
Fifty posts at sl4 each ..........- ......s7oo0 90
Bnrnhan, lEl miller Co, dtting lamps 49,
TO posts '-.....'..--.-.. &5s90
Total.................... ....s7s7, 81
Evans bid-5O posts at si9s50 each. 1850
Saving the Corporation. .sls7,6S
And obtaining greatly superior post, which
what is the relative prices Of the Two lamps
and posts;
Cost on 50 posts as above. $751; 3
" OF 50 lamps at SS-..-.......... -.-... z99sg9
Freight on lamps ..-....-.-..... $3.50
sI,205.87
so Evans posts at SIS, s975,O0
50 frames at el...-.--.....-.. 500
Drayage Cprobably) ........- 1000
~ lamps &C soE50'..-s -.-...-s 140sV0 sAso4OsJV
Saving to the Corporation......S I01, Is
In favor Of the new lamps and posts, and
not tncluuing the frames f54sld.
Ifhe did not ask tsan unfair, gougfng and
fi,eI1 ~ ~ 55 sarll Ti7g- aid I1e "a 5Tss
and receive from the Council In January
last, so for two posts, OF SO each and Why
last by the present Council, as his BILL in the
Village Recorders ofies VIII BhoW3 II IN
June last he was willing to make them as
cheap as any other person. why did he not
say so to Mr.. WELLS In july a1ter. ME-
Evans admits by his own showing that had
we taken him at his ofter OF $3.50 ne you'd
have made a clear profit OF e5s00 on eaon
post Does he think the Corporation is g ut
subject OF ptunqer IN this way ana Lla6 an
od1cer is only elected to give fayorites STAT
Tyhe cost OF sganapgr is not in this question.
only need say that the old lamps are un-
dOub1edly the best Of their kind but the
frames Of these are Of tin, while the new are
larger. He seems to think that post Is g
postp no matter of what 1t is made.aD Does not
MI. Evans extensive experiences teascn MIN
that castings made mom pure pig ron -
better than those made 1rom pot metal and
lamps made from malieable iron better than
those from tin 2
/ did not charge him with tan unfair,
gOuEing price, Sc" I only gave him the
/ privilege Of choosing between two propo-
aitfons, viz: EITHER he asked q price ne
could fairly do them for, or an UNFAIR
I nouging price, 65C.iF he has seen proper &c
I take the latter proposition, and be must not
complain IL he passes Judgment on himself:
/ My patronage Of sfhoTne mechanics 1eo.s I
may not extend beyond the barber and
wood-saWyer," but see no obiectton to ena-
/ ployinE either OF them, provided honestly
/ pay them their wages when their work ia
done. he seems 70 complain because the
I Council did not patrouize his atshOp."
/ Again he shows failure ofmemoTys which
/ It would be charitable to attribute 20 old
age He says I began this conbroye1 sys-
I Surely he has not forgotten that he wrote
long personal article, which / ana otherf
saw, but which the editors of this paper, in
! their local column OF the issue Of Nov q
\ declined to publish, but did state the cause
I Of complaint in the article. To this editorial
] comment on that article a reply was made
| in the next issue, censurlng no one and
/ commenting on no one. The files OF th1i
/ paper viii show WHO began this c0ntroVer
I sy, and he should have examined them be
I fore he made so rash q statement.
]. d VAN DE1LAcys