Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-08
A Libel Answered.

Iuo puDllcdtlOn OF llDelOuS attack IN
city newspapers of the 7th instant upon
the President of this company will be
met in the courts, where it will be set
tied, but we deem it duty to the public
to say that the slanderous article re-
ferred to can, in another sense, be an
swered here by the statement that the
only company in this city making gas
containing the elements which, by in
ference, they charge this company with
manufacturing, is the old monopoly Los
Angeles Gas Company. That corpora
ton has, for some time, been attempting
to sell it's plant to this company that we
might put our gas all over the city and
thus absolve them from the few contracts
they have been able to make with con-
sumers, but failing to get their extortion-
ate price, they open with a scurrilous at
tack which squints strongly in the direc-
ton of blackmail.
We have no desire to enter into any
lengthy controversy with a corporation
capable of descending to the nasty and
noisome depths of scurrility and SANDER
reached by our competitors, but take
brief space to say that the Lowe Gas and
Electric Company is not making the
kind of gas referred to, instead, it is
making the least deliterious, most pure,
brilliant and beautiful illuminating gas
ever made upon this Continent (Which
also as a fuel has no competitor), and is
making it from pure oil and water only,
which every child knows contains no
unhealthful elements. This is further
clearly shown in the expert report pub
lished by eminent chemists in this pa
per of recent date, in which they certi
fed to the superior quality of our gas
over that manufactured by the Los An
geles Gas Company.
The rapidity with which this Company
is growing in favor and its product being
taken by all classes OF consumers for
neat, light and power has sent consterna-
ton into the ranks of the old monopoly,
which takes this narrow-minded course
to check our progress, with the same vain
hope they had some weeks since, when
they tried to get us out of the way that
they might return to So per 1000 gas of
half candle power we are supplying.
1t will be well for the old Los Angeles
Gas Company to clearly understand that
we are here to stay, and shall continue
making and supplying superior article
of gas at a fair price, which is all that
fair-minded people ask. Libels and
ISLANDERS have never yet checked any
honest and legitimate enterprise and
they will not check us. We will always
keep our rates as low as consistent with
fair profits, which every consumer knows
is better than getting an inferior quality
of gas, below cost of manufacture, or
even for nothing, for short time.
In this connection we desire to ex.
press our regrets that the City of Los
Angeles has no guardian of the public
health for the sleeping babes in the
cradles of gas consumers, other than the
old monopoly Los Angeles Gas Com
pany, who seem to have forgotten that
their gas has taken life within one year,
and on December 25th, 1887, Mr.. Har-
ness and wife, room %, Stevenson
House, was found unconscious from in
haling their gas and remained so until 8
O'Clock the following afternoon, and
would not have recovered had it not
been for the skill of their physician; and
again on the 10th of May last their
ated while repairing main in front of
the Court House on Spring street and
came near losing their lives-this did
not happen three Thousand miles from
here.
In closing we desire to thank the loyal
friends who have come to US and vel.
come those who are coming, assuring
them that we shall continue to give them
the best article with the best treatment
in spite of lies or liars.
LOWE GAS AND ELECTRIC Co.,
204 South Main Street.