Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-17
PAID THUS FAR ON "PLANT.

operation the new system:
PAID THUS FAR ON PLANT"
Boilers setting, Sc................... -, 358 25
Fnoine-rooy0s,, ........., 265 As
Iron tower. 1909 4G
Buchtel College mast................ I4I 81
Binding account. 8S7 u
Changes III Central Engine-House ia 66
Engine bed and 6hafting .......... 1854 O6
Line OF construction. 1913 81
Miscellaneous. ........................ $50 II
Tolal........................ 1905 81
OTHER CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS (unpaid).
On engine room. 81 Is
On OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. II VI
On college maSt......................., Ia
About 400 feet additional wire.... "a 90
Miscellaneous. Observation-Disclosures. n
Total......................... 81 OF
BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY CONTRACT
(UDpaidJ.
1 No. machine. 50. 900 90
s No. :; double NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. GAO 90
galvanized iron hoods ...........- As 90
2 farm supports for lamps ... 210 90
1900 feet copper wire. $40 90
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 3,438 90
Carbons for one year............ $50 90
Total ............................ 3,798 90
Grand total......................... l1,317 IL
Other (slnalD claims may yet remain, but
the above figures very nearly cover the gross
cost.
Several offsets, however, should legiti-
mately be taken from the above, as follows:
Old ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $500 90
Saving in heating city armory...... 1000 90
Three hundred street lamps......... ] 800 90
Total. $500 90
| Deductin3 which from the gross
| amount, S11, 317 ~, we have as
the net cost of the plant. IS, OFT AZ
Concerning the estimated annual cost of
maintaining the system, the following fig
ures, though given in the rough, viii prOba-
bly, approximate the amount:
superintendent at S85 per month 81 ,02O 90
Cost OF carbOns one year............ $50 90
! Fuel, REPAIRS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 200 90
Total annual cost................... 1850 90
| 1t is proper to add that the entire expense
Of the system, and more, had been provided
! for by taxation prior to beginning the work.
| The city now has 500 street lamps. having
added 500 new oil lamps since the gas
war began. The entire cost of lamps, oil
and lighting has averaged 81, 500 a year.
| Electric light viii be cheaper yet. In five
i years the city paid the Akron Gas Compa-
ny S28, 975 for gas and lighting, besides
%. 600 or 81, 600 for repairs, &c.
November 10, 1872, the city council of
Akron passed an ordinance for an alleged ten
years arrangement with the Akron gas
company, putting the price to private con
/ Io
city consumption. Five years later, No
vember 10, 1877, J. Park Alexander of the
| third ward, introduced a resolution to dis
! continue the use of gas and to burn oil in
| the street lamps. This was done for the
! purpose of securing q reduction in the
| prices for gas, on the ground that they were
double what they should be, although the
! gas company meanwhile had reduced the
! rate to private consumers to 50. so per ]. 600
Two days later November 81 1877, the
gas company secured preliminary iniunc-
ton against the city, to prevent carving
out Mir. Aexander's resolution. The case
did not come to trial until the April term Of
the Summit common pleas. Meanwhile,
the city council had passed, on February 3.
1873, an ordinance fixing the price for GAS
at 81, 90 to citizens, and 81 IS to the city.
and the city solicitor had secured counter
injunction, restraining the gas company
from collecting more than these rates. The
common please at the April term dissolved
both OF these injunctions. Appeals were
taken, and in April, 1879, the district court
sustained the common pleas, and there lit
cation ended. There was talk of appealing
to the supreme court, but nothing was ever
done, and it is now claimed in behalf Of tie
city that the gas company paid the costs,
and that now there is no suit on the docket
against the city growing out of this contro-
versy. The right of consumers to