The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-26
L. Scott Party Get
=" 10 Plums at the
Caucus.
...u Last Even'ng-sco'' "e-
A Hun nc nomination by n Vote
e' !, sea 20 G0-Oiher News

-, the discuseloh VI Wv
ssstiou commenced. =. v
Tho caucus organized with M'chaei
luz chairman; j. Fl. Hicok, sec e.
t t, and G. W. Emery ana H. D. ho'' E
iDg, tellers' n. c.o,,on moved that :
c.o,t address the caucus ana give s
,o0s why he favors.smunicipa' light
iea'' N, Scott gave the history OF seven
'n., naat Of electric.lighting as it AFFECT
' J, .ho village Ct Hancock. Attwo three
\. .'mas in that period be!declared thecoun-
I'm "oo m favor of investigating the mat
=. -, 81 the village taking the lighting into
=. own hands. A year ago, he SAID tue
,;,,oe now 80 famous, consisting OF
w,;cbt Ruppe and himself, was appoint
"A A meeting could snot be gotten OF
Al. committee; here Scott got little in
s.r,ost and cried, "God knows that
,riod 70 get that committee to meet.
A, that time MIR. Scott gathered figures
,.om several towns which he proceeded
ooa n thecaucus. He stated that he |
Ala NOT consider them by any means con-
.usve evidence that the village should
nut in plant, but evidence that there Is
.,ouob in the question to investigate.
Here are the figures MIR. Scott read:
Monroe. lighted by company, arc
lights, So 70; incandescent,a in stores, 90
o.nts. residences, 81 to 16 cent?; meter
rate 10 cents per 1000 volts; steam
power.
AuSable, lighted by a company, arc
,amns. S6, incandescent. so cents; resi-
dences % to 16 cents; meter. 10 cents
per 1000 volts.
Bic Rapids, arcs. 81 80; in stores. $3;
incandescent, so cents; residences, 20
cents; plant making money; run by vii
lage.
Niles. plant run by city; incandes cents,
lat so cents, 10 at 80 cents each, 30 at
81, and 10 cents each for additional one;
arcs in stores, 20.
Coldwater, plant run by city; street
arcs, S.; in stores, 50; incandescents, 5O
cents 40 to Is cents. thus 40 cents each;
meter, 10 cents per 1000 volts. Plant
has been run three yeare. Extensions
have been paid for out OF profits and
$4,000 is on hand to meet bonds. Steam
power.
East Towas, incaudescents, 80 cents
residences 12h cents; steam power.
Dowogiac, plant run by city; incandes
cents, so cents; residences, 80 TOGO cents
expenses, 50, 900 per year.
Lowell. city plant, incandescents, A.
cents; meter, 10 cents per 1 900 volts.
Cadillac, arcs, 81; incandescents, q
cents; residences, 20 cents; steam power
run by company.
Allegau, arcs, S.; incandescents, D
cents; residences, liz cents.
Traverse City, run by company; arcs
street, So.
In speaking OF the Ontonagou a SEQ
tism came out, "Would you call Chr
tanity failure il church burned up
st Louis, Mich, run by company arc
81; incandascents. so cents; residence
81; Tor 100 lights.
DIR. J. z. Scallon was the next speake
He attacked the figures given by NJ
Scott saying that the conditions und
which the plants represented by there q
not appear. He spoke OF electric hit
aluxury and denied the right OF a mu
icipalt to 20 into the business Of fuI
ishing it to the residents. He said on
other hand a water system was a nee
sity.
The village" said the speaker, IN
no more business to mortgage the pro
erty OF taxpayers to go into the elect
light business than to go into the Or
business" He called attention TO
Tact that the village is already burden
with load OF bonds and declared thai
ismore important to look alter the
and some other things, than to incu
new Indebtedness, the outcome at viii
he was firmly Of the belief, would be b
DR.. Scallon called attention to the
that no sinking fund was yet establish
to take care Of the village bonds.
was making the ZANE point ar to
township, when Scott made one with
crowd by a contradiction Of the last.
The doctor eulog'sed Scott In an
tended manner, which pleased the GRO
out when he remarked take Scott on
the crowd and what name have yo'
coniure WITH" it did not 60 down
well.
telling point in the doctors lsp'
which, however, he did not make
~ plain, was his reading Of the aver
''H cost per month per lieht to- those NJ
'''' the meter rate. The figures ran fro
s'r eents perlight 10 81 cents. a
The subsequent outcome OF the ca,
wss appassnt Nv the action Of the or
during the Scott and Scallon speeche