Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-10

| burned up everything, with very MUCH
less gas.
DR.. Taylor-How about the City
/ Hall?
Mr.. Heard can tell more about
/ that. | think the county pays us ST.
( 600 a year.
DR.. Taylor-How much would the
crematory probably cost?
Mr.. Heard-As a guess, l would say
it might be about $500 per year. But
that is only guess. 1t might be more,
and it might not run as much as that.
Mr.. Heard here read a letter from
the President of the Philadelphia Nat
ural Gas Company, doing business IN
Pittsburg, in which the writer said
their rates We're 25c. gross, 10 per cent.
off for payment within fifteen days.
The Company was selling gas to manu-
facturers at 15c., on condition that the
supply could be shut off at any time
upon reasonable notice.
Commenting upon this letter, Mr..
Heard called attention to the fact that
the Philadelphia Companys rate was
just fifty per cent higher than the rate
in this city, and Pittsburg had
A GOOD SUPPLY OF GAS
as a result. cat 15c. the Philadelphia
Company's business would have been
dead and the Company in the hands Of
the Sheriff three years ago, and they
would not be laying a million dollar
pipe line to Tyler county, either
Mr.. Butts said something about the
future enactment of the law 10 pre-
vent gas from being taken out of the
State, when Mr.. Heard said:
you should remember that all the
gas YOU burn here comes from Penn
sylvania. | don't see why we can't
come to an agreement, gentlemen. The
people are with us. I'll admit that we
have some enemies, but the people who
pay us the most money are our strong
est friends, while as for our enemies,
they remind me of the old story, that
the beneficiary is always the grumbler.
/ 1t isn't the benefits Of the past they
are thankful for but they are looking
forward with expectancy TO benefits yet
to come That is the history Of the
human race 1t is the non-gas con-
/ sumer who is holding out for free gas.
/ The man who buys it and pays for it
and who wants it, is perfectly willing
/ to pay more money for It. | tell you
what I'll do. AS a still further con-
cession, I'll carry the CrematOry free
/ all of next summer, for we viii likely
have enough of gas in hot weather, il
you will then fix price on ii"
Mr.. Bachman-To what date?
Mr.. Butts-Why not let it so over to
the next Council? You've been
GETTING SOMETHING
out of every Council, and you might get
something out of the next one.
Mr.. Heard-Oh, as for that, a man
who is in public life must expect TO be
thumped. They will complain if you
do. and complain if you don't. Reply
ing TO you, Mr.. Bachmann, III say III
carry the crematory free until October
LIST. next Just so we can see the end
of this free gas somewhere. That will
be a steady run for the crematOry for
ten years. There are children going
to school who have been born since we
put free gas in there.
Mr.. Irwin asked if the Company
couldn't continue free g9@. but assume
control of the supply, and reduce 1t
fifty per cent, and there was a long
discussion on this, which ended with
Mr.. Heard offering to make the rate
for gas used by the city sc. This didn't
meet with any more favor than Mr.
Heard's other concessions. Then Capt.
Otto suggested that the Company al
low the city so much free gas, and the
city to pay for all burned over that
amount. He suggested $4,000 worth on
a &c. basis, but Mr.. Heard objected than
that would be a tax of two and quar-
ter per cent. upon their gross receipts.
He finally said:
IF you Will give us a 20c net rate
we will pay you 81. 500 a year in casn
for the right to do business, and make
it a fixed charge on the Company"
This didn't suit any better than any
thing which had gone before and finally
/ Mr.. Heard withdrew all his offers re-
garding the crematOry, except that the
gas should be free until May /, 1896, at
which time there should be a further
/ conference as to the rate the city was
to pay there, and the Committee ad-
journed.
The rate of 20c. gross, ten per cent.
off for payment within ten days, will
( be presented to Council this evening,
and will probably be made the special
order for a special session Tuesday Of
next week.