Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-16
THE LIGHTS PUT OUT
DARKNESS nEIGNs AGAIN TONIGHT
Councilman Calllslcr Point, nu' That
the Company Took iis C1ntrac
with Op.n Eycs.

The streets of Salt Lake viii be- In
darkness again tonight rs they woro
last night wnen the Electric Light
company enforced ils threat 70 SHUT
Oh all public lighis. 81 w tue question
IL who will DO the nls. TO capltulaic,
the cry Council Ot the light company
OF rather lhu company Of darkness, 'or
suoh II has now become. tisHr II o
that the people can stand tho crucial
test longer Than can the clmbiuhtiou
aud unless there be- q weakening OF tnr
spinal column Of somo o. tue city
fathers the fght will 20 or.
The company sets forth that % clr.
MT afford to iurnith lghta at IS 800 pee
month; that u must have from ~ tD Is
moro than that Concerning that
plsint Councilman CsillaJoLchairmau
OF tho committee ON improve.
mont, SAID this afternoon tuni
n wac rather late iu tho day 10 mutr
that gf0wl. Tho com any ls nu EXPO.
Iitnccu one. ~ nsH been No busiutHH
here from the Hfsf, 4 ku.W just what
overything iu So limo will Ulsi. 10 know
that yrrFH.U. 40 that tluo % mnHr
o. hid ~ 800 paf hight Irf month. Ih.
bll was HuCuI ted nnu CIutfhc' Tor
QUO year On ,TrI into, Tie company
tried very bard to have tho clutRu
tLtou'td Tor tIttU yiurl iust.AI ~ one.
II expected competition iHtrl
aud htt lhut competition came,
10 fdii ptu vail Then CONE
petition, by some hook or cfUuk, woe
tutl fd. The rate war ended and pricuf
went skywatI likf political .Ckc'.
They arc s,ill in the c'HuIsfnf beyond
tue reach of moot people.
The myslliylnT query To- proIouudou
BY CluuCImaH Cail'7tuJ "lf tue cUiu-
tany know II was s.Eg ir,poutOu,
Why DID ~ with is eyes VIII, OIuu
unl with the experience 90
the past, enter iuIU con.
cfact win tho city i.f Year, Il
vas deer us Of extending the limo o.
tbtUe ycnu. IL did not vast tO do title
Tor iup." Now tucru is 400 Danger %
a mpolltiou; the riyal company anu 10
has mad Au uuderst n mil.
catisns ato not mslUuulng the people
ate also beginning to understand.
Mr. Cullistvr uls1 gave some iniuI.
eating figures complied uy tho expert
electrician &. r. Mex ~, VINO recent.
~ went uHst Mt the Instance OF
Mayor Gl8ndiuning 10 iuvrstI.
gate electric lighting. According
90 Mr. Mickey, tho old rate
Of $3.50 per mpUtn glU2 ror year o.
not particularly eG0fuiihnI when local
conditions are Clu- dvfUj. However,
light can be furnished, he says, ct "a
pfunt Tor iets than that. Salt Lake
has 276 lights, run according 10 moon.
light schedule, which IL nearly Que.
third lees tunn the ell night ettvicr.
Ottawa, when hts $50 lights Tor u
Hmilar service pays isl pBr year;
London, Ontario, 2lG lights, Sos;
Guelph, with about the same number,
$50.
For an all night service Cincinnati,
with a5i light, pays g. Bu; Omaha
2O2 llshis, SEQ; Kansas City, IA
nshlr, $1,000; Pittsburgh, about the
same uumuuf 800, All the.r lights arc
furnished by private companies. 10
the oVoutthat the municipalities OW n.
ing their own llghtllg sybtrm. Mr.
Nick ~ nRutrs that tho coat could he
reduced shout Uur fourth, A rlaut iu
CITY Creek canyon c ulu be- ufrcio ty
the cty,sUyr Mr.. Mickey, about lUr
following cost pOlrr, uurH HHu Hm b..
three hundred lamp syEeu, sil 900,
wntrr power anu plant sl3 .u; iltaI,
$50 200. The system, 10 b. i.Tgh,r eftl.
mated, could be maiutnluuu 600 ~ o..
give the cry an all night service NJ 10
cost Of $500 instead OF partial uI.ht
service iut El-6 While The company
now domauls.