Milford chronicle., 1891-01-23

ne IcLE did as much as any citizen, wit
pie the exceptisn oftwo, or possibly three
,xt to get the plant started in Milford
Ter We even cautioned our boyish frienC
les against his exaggerating the capac
ng ity Of the electric light, and thereby
causing the public to be disappointed
Iat with the incandescent system; but
Sc our advice was construed as opposi-
n tion, and he went on telling the peo-
ut pie by pantomimic motions Of body
n and insinuatiug language, that ten
il candle lamp would make a room as
as light as day but facts have demon
Il. strated that they don't.
Now we don't pretend to say that
le the writer (whO, should he live among
y the Sioux Indians, would be chris
u tened "Young-man-ashamed-ofhis-
/ namely used exactly those words,
> but he conveyed that meaning. We
4 are now in favor of the electric light !
system of lighting, and was one of
. its promoters. But listen at the fol-
! lowing where he attempts to belittle
a square competitor, and states what
every one who walked the streets of
, Milford then, knows to be untrue;
but hear him:
This town formerly contracted
with lighting company in distant
city, it might be said a foreign cor
poration pOssessingno property here, G
lpaying no taxes and absolutely doing t
nothing to develop or improve the S
town. Simply got all they could s
out of tile town and spent it IN an
other State. They charged the town It
for gasoline lamps of not exceeding g
ten candle power, burning on the \
moonlight schedule of seventeen
nights in the month until twelve 7
O'Clock, thirteen dollars per lamp per =
annum. Everybody knows what
wretched service was rendered, and Ii,
how badly the town needed decent W
illumination. al
Milford was lighted by the Globe &C
Gas Light Co., of Philadelphia. The
lamps were filled with gasoline and
burned from sun down until daylight flo
next morning-in many cases until BIT
8 o'clock next morning. The lights '"'
were far superior to anything Mil
ford ever had before, and much het-
ter than she had during part of last
fall with the electric system-we So
refer to the time when the "injector IN IN.
wouldn't work." when the "pump lea
give enough water because wh
IF sand;" when "the fireman heated phi
ihe boiler so hot that the smoke stack III
vas red hot part of the way up" to
when "the boiler was crusted and to
couldn't keep up steam;" when the biz
Whole thing failed to work and we
lad to do without lights on the
treets altogether; although the tax ole "a
ayers paid for it just the same. He war
ays that that company did nothing ing
D develop the town. Well,we don't four
now about that; they paid out as br3t r32tt
luch money here fer labor as the thiz,
lectric Light Company, we think. bpsl fvgs
he Globe Company took its money the
, Philadelphia, and the Edison Light p,
money goes from Milford the
the Smyrna Bank and from there fathe iS
goes-where Everybody knows and a: !,
at the demand for private lighting pain
,mpelled the town in Difference to r,oT, %S
lblic opinion to put electric lights resPt
the sire ts. " "Young-man- sprea
lame" goes on:
The electric light has changed all
that, and now our streets are well
.hted with sixteen candle power Tn,
hts, burning every night at cost
fifteen dollars per lamp per annum, To
wing at least four times as much Yot
hit as the old gasoline lomps, at TAX
out the same cost. Not only that,
our dwellings, stores, churches,
tells, ETC., are we'll, conveniently rot,
1 cheaply lighted. Does the Chron- reside
e know that Milford has the low eonviC
prices for electric lighting ofany ming. ing.
yn or city in the United States, appeal T
Il such is the fact and the writer law W
'eOdy to substantiate it. tn put ,at ma
lust a paragraph above he admits sion "
t the gasoline lamps, gave ten plain pI9lf'
die power and in this one he says guilty
the sixteen-oandle power lamps age an
e four times as much light as the igss, s,,s 81
oline lamps. Poor fellow. He months
'thelp exaggerating--its the force c5esks S5.s is
habit. Well the Town Council of ever
complaining not long ago about Don
poor illumination of those six may be
l-candle lamps; but they have even i
4 doing better recently. Our esSaa,, spon
nd "Young Man Ashamed OF ard bl,
Name" goes on in his letter and econoH
that private electric works can
un cheaper than those operated
owns. molI wo won't wind him With
crop u
N this again, He winds up as grower
,ws: de1cs
he Chronicle should know that be chill
town raises $4,000, representing make
600 at per cent, if the 100 six nowins 'sAlil
-canule power sCIeeU tiSnUS SeO near FL
half OF this, full adequate value IS employ
Ived. Will the Chronicle eX- body
I about the other halfF p. and an'
e don't question the value re- Ellen