The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-12-30
THE GAS QUESTION.
The Secretary in the Dark Of
the Neon.

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called attention to the fact that the
Gas company was not doing the fair
thing by the people of Logan. More
than halt hundred of the best cit
izeus of the town fled complaints
with us. No one man felt like
fighting corporation. The news
paper is, or ought to be. tho mouth
piece of an honest, intelligent pub
tic sentiment. The gas lamps were
not Int at proper hours. The
amount of illumination rs agreed
upon by the contract with the
Council was not furnished. Many
of our busininess men threw away
their gas burners and substituted
oil lamps. Numbers of gas consum-
ers absolutely repudiated their bills.
The Gas company got, in the judge
ment of this public, to be fraud,
end the Sentinel took up The lssue
and 6an prove every thing it has
charged. The gas in our surround
ing towns costs tho public and con-
sumers less than one ha'f what it
costs US. Tho gas made at the
peni;entiary from coal from the
same mine used by onr Logan COM
pany is reported as costing only 43
cents per thousand, We are charged
two dollars and a half. We have
insisted that this public is entitled
to fair deal. We give an excIu
sive privilege for lighting our streets
for ten years to this company. 1t
does not furnish the illumination in
the burner. required by the con-
tract. The lamps have not been
lit, but the bills come In regularly
Honest men and an intelligent pub
lie don't propose to be imposed up
on. Don't intend to pay for what
they don't got. no matter whether
the failure to get the goods bought.
is Cue to an attempted fraud or lg-
norant and incompetent employees.
In protecting the public against
corporate averice, fraud or incom-
petent service, the Sentinel has. its
duty to perform as has the Court,
and the Sentinel nor Courts nor
town Councils can be bought nor
bullied into subserviency by gas
corporations,
Since the Sentinel has boldly and
defantly protested against the
"mismanagement'' CHATS the mild
est term we have) of the previous
practices of the Gas company, it is
noticeable to our citizens, that the
lamps are lit at proper time and
burn with brighter light.
Having acconplis he'd an approved
purpose, the Sentinel would say no
more about the Gas company-and
Will say no more about it as Tonga s
it does what our citizens think far
and right, only that the Secretary
of the Gas company appears last
week in the Republican Gazette
with a single candle power Card in
vitlng the calcium light of the Sen
tinel. AS we see the Secretary in
our focus, heseems the stupid donk-
ey bearing the burthen the Ga.
company unloaded on him, and
hraylng to the whip and spur of his
Manager. The Secretary. as far
ne know or care to know, is nice
gentleman. The Sentinel in every
mention of him has 80 spoken. He
assumes that because we objected 10
the practices of the Gas company,
the Sentinel was animated by NAL
ice. This is an unmanly, indirect,
cowardly fling, a thrust IN the dark
of the moon, so TO speak. The Sen
tinel does not know the stockhold-
crs of tho Gas company, don't care
to know. 1t does know that the
proprietor of the Sentinel was a
stockholder 10 the extent of one
hundred dollars, an amount he SUBJ
scribed as voluntary gift 10 an IN
corporation that would build gas
works IN Logan. And just here the
Secretary may be answered a CUES.
ton. He says:
"Now, the proprietor the Senti
mel was one of the incorporators of
the Company, and l would like to
have statement of his s'irt~o1.s
reasons for retiring therefrom. Was
not the proprietor Of the Sentinel
sin tie ring" along with a few 9th
ers 2"
We cannot, with our present can
die power illumination see the
point made IN the above TO the pro.
prietor of the Sentinel.
The editor of the Sentinel know
of no ring. He offered his money
as gift. Mcdonald, who built the
gas works, before the Secretary was
discovered, asked that we assign
our stock TO him, which wo did, he
promising to build the works. 1t
was matter of gas works in Logan
the Sentinel was seeking. We we're
ready with our money, our credit to
help the enterprise along. We were
told the way to do was to assign
our stock, which we did. We got
neither money, nor glory, nor gas
for this feat. We got out of the
Gas company because asked to 90
ou:. This is Immaterial to the is