The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-27

IN WHICH ne gfOpeS, you eau nave IL
just as economically with gas, even at
the present price. All you have to
do IS to turn your gas burner down to
the volume of his Goa oil lamps, and
you have it, without the c0ncOmitant
grease and smoke and smell.
But to your WLtintGtuBs. 1t is that
the Company must reduce its price OF
gas, and adopt the price and Fegula
tons Of the Cincinnati Gas Company,
or you, and each of you, will gut
using gas. aud burn eoal-oil.
Well, gentlemen, it is with exceed
ing great regret that we part with you
upon this issue, for we can but feel
the parting Is eternal. You will
never get gas In Evansville at Cincin-
natl prices, until the manufacturer
can initiate the brush-maker In the
story, to the extent of stealing at
least half his material; and as we
must, Of course, give you the credit
OF being desperately in earnest IA
your determination not to use gas
until you do, nothing remains
for US but to bid you last and final
farewell. La the pathetic language Of
the Poet:
& "a Fare We well. and though forever.
Stil, forever, fare ye weuP'
Now, Messrs. Editors, we desire to
add a few words to yourselves and
others of our friends, who, though
sometimes complaining, have as yet
made no direct attempt to dictate
what price we shall be permitted to
hchaTge for, our commodity. We are
aware that for some two or three
months our bills have been unusually
large. But this, we submit, is no
more a reason for dem Inding a reduc-
ton In the price Of gas than the fact
that some OF your eustemersT pat
ronized your columns with unaccus-
toned liberality would be FOR their in
sisting upon "a general decrease Of
your charge for advertising. The only
question in either case IS, whether
the price per thousand or per square
is or IS not. "a reasOnab Ole one.
To enable those who may be
I disposed t5 do us justice, land we
| know from actual experiment that
there are such, even though we are a
Gas Company,) TO decide this ques-
ton, SO far as we are concerned, we
will briefly state our case.
In 1866. the City Council, with the
concurrence Of tbe Company, appoint
ed a COMMITTEES Of five of our most
.snbstautiallcitiZens hndlbes busikeAs
men, to arbitrate this and all other
I questions between as aud Hhe city
+ They were Messrs. II. Raleigh, j. $.
Hopkins, W III Walker. H C..
Gwathmey and Judge Iglehart.
Three of these gentlemen are known
to .JBeS thOroukh book Keepers ~ The
| Committee had possession of our
| books during its session, end was, we
assert, Convinced, that up 20 that
time, our entire profit, includingiin-
crease of apparatus and mains, aud
! everything else, amounted to but a
! fraction over. five per cent. peraBnum
upon the capital INVESTED. They
Unanimously reported, among other
things, that while the premium on
bg0ld exceeds p per cent. 50 50isfa
fair price iog gas, the reNenue tax adj
/ ded, but nc charge for meter rent.
| They further reported that the Com
| pany should immediately proceed to
make suita ole provision for an abun-
dant supply OF gas, &c, For the
PURPOSE { Of complying with this
requirement, I'VE made Z an assess
ment upOngsf0ur stockholders of
thirty per cent. on the amount Of
their stock, ahd when a majority OF
them refu ed to submit TO the
Z assess ent We found them purchasers
/ for their shares at par, with whom,
and with the original stockholders,
who consented to take and pay for the
EaugmeGtetD stock, we reorganizad the
Company; aud BY this means, and BY
| mourning a heavy debt beside, we
succeeded last year IN increasing our
apparatus to the amount of over
S35, 900, and in making the capacity
of the works, and the supply of gas,
IN all respects up to the recommenda-
tionsof the committee and the wants
Of the city. isaae4 1sy.A Iaai. .,..'.l .
eNoW.sfor stock holders who had
/ notreceived Eve cents from their IN
yestmepts0 in, five YeaTsg this might
have Been REGARDED as doing t6lerabl y
L well, provided, & we. mean, they had
not the misfortune TO be stockhold-
ers of the Evansville Gas Light Com
/ pany. But being SO, we were not
/ disappointed in receiving curses IN
stead of COMMUNICATION. Like their
JEWS prQtgtypes ia ths wilderness,
/ Wh6 first murmuTed that they, had no
meat, ana stl4eRI mdrmured because
1.-The Lord furnished it in such abund-
ance, that they made. themselves sick
with aeating it, the same men. who
I before made the e greatest uproar
on s accaupt Of the Insufficient
supply yotIogas,1 now denounced as
I as knaves and swlndlers because we
gave Them too much. They would