The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-06-17
STILL ANOTHER.
a Correspondent Endorses what Has Been
Said Of Electric Lights.

Said Of Electric Lights.
EDITOR EVENING HERALD 81 cannot re-
sst the temptation to ask for small space in
your valuable paper to say that as an
humble taxpayer, having no stock or other
interest in any electric light company, or
anything else other than my own little home
for which I paid my hard-eaned money!
/ most heartily endorse all that has been
written by your correspondents ON the cleo
tric light question, with the exception of
what Lawyer Burke wrote last night For
heavens sake tell your correspondents not
to mind his bluff about meeting them i'm the
Council chamber to have the subject thor
oughly ventilated Stop such nonsense. If
the lawyer is bursting with oratory, let him
hire hall. I think he has cheek enough TO
bar an competitors when he makes such %
suggestion after the manner in which he
addressed Council and abused the members
the last time he appea~ed before them.
am willing to stake my little home that all
that has been printed ON the subject during
this week, does not amount to half or even
one quarter of what he has been allowed to
state before Council and now he wants am
other whack at it If 1 could pre-
side at meeting of Council for one
night when the lawyer would tap himself
[ would not be as lenieut with him as Presi-
dent St1ughn and others have been. l
would give him the definition of courtesy
right from the shoulder and if he didn't like
it he could do the next best thing. Stop all
this tomfoolery and let the Councilmeu get
down to business. If these new electric
light people are sincere let them as your last
correspondent said, give the bond the Council
demands, as they promised to do, and other
wise back up their big predictions with good
faith. If these people won't do this, then
let Council do as they would in other cases
under similar circumstances. 1t looks TO me
as if the whole thing is a great big bluff and
/ honestly believe that the threats TO sue the
borough for damages for the alteration Of
the grade on Centre street is only a
part Of a whipper-in scheme. 1t is certainly
amusing to contemplate the audacity of
some people. At the Centre street end of the
property the owner kicks like a steer because
the Borough Council will not cast aside COM
mon sense and accept what he wishes to
make a grade. At the Oak street end of the
same property you find the owner gobbling
up about twenty feet Of the Oak street width
and a good slice Of the alley. Now, Mr..
Editor, where in the name of Dayey Jones
can you find a trace of fairness or good faith
in such actions? Is it any wonder that when
talking about the new electric light project
SO many people ask, "What shall the harvest
beY' When a man is only too ready autago
uize the borough IN such affairs / think it il
time for Council to call a halt and make hin
understand that if he wants any privileges
he must put himself in position to ask fo
them, and that he need not expect any unit
he does so. l have heard the question asked
ha rod r.
put up a bond any more than other com
pauics ?" / am no lawyer but l think l can
answer the question to the satisfaction Of
any reasonable man. In the first place, the
Councils have heen too blamed soft hearted
in the past They have been taking the
glowing words of people for their bonds. In
the second place, the new electric light people
have already backed down in more than one
respect from their original proposition
They have refused to give Council
the bond it asked, they have admitted
that they cannot give better stree
light, and they have had six weeks time and
failed to get a foundation stone laid. In the
third place, take the head of the movement
How many of his brilliant schemes has he
carried to completion2 Where is his beauti-
ful town in the Catawissa Valley? Where is
his extensive property in New York? Where
/ is that big store a la Wanamaker that he
promised the town few years ago? Where
is the big storage house for which he made
| the slate and bOny coal foundation walls
near the Lehigh railroads And yet there
are some people who profess surprise because
others doubt the glowing promises made
about the new electric light! 1t makes me
tired AJAX.
Shenandoah, Pa, June II, 1897