The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-08
REPLY.
Portland Electric Company to
the Consolidated.

Manager broWns So""en'
situation-what Some Portland
Men Have TO Say.
The statement printed in the papers of
last night by Manager Raymond of the
Consolidated Electric Light company to
the effect that his company was not at
all alarmed over the granting of the petit
ton of the Portland Electric Light CON-
pany for tho reason that the Consolidated
could furnish rates on an equality with
those of the Portland Electric Light COM
pany, has aroused great deal OF interest
throughout the city.
Manager George W. Brown Of the Port
land Electric Light company was sen
last night by reporter and asked II be had
seen the statement of the manager OF the
old company.
YES" replied Manager Brown. ~
have seen the statement. The wording,
you notice, is precisely the same. thus
showing that the Consolidated desires to
make plain to every body that 1t has teen
and now is the public benefactor.
Manager Brown believed that further
comment from him would be unneces-
sary, but he suggested that ths reporter
make canvass Of business houses and
compare prices paid with the rates offered
ty his company for lighting the same
places.
One of the first parties seen was George
7. Means, the proprietor of the restaurant
on Exchange street. MIR. Means uses
L-.- tvxn Il ~
lights" stated Mr.. Means, "for which
pay q per month for each light. This Is
too much money. The Portland Electric
Light company can furnish the same
number of lights in this place and the
rate will be $3.50 q year-n saving Of
$S4 So"
Ansel G. Sawyer, the livery stable man
on Federal street, has ten incaudescent
lights, for which he pays $40 per year.
The new company can furnish Mr.. Saw
yer for $72 net and Mr.. Sawyer is Of
course pleased at the amount of money
that he will be able to save on lights here
after.
The proprietors of the United States
hotel, Foss s. O'Connor, have one arc light
ave have had this light here for IL
years." said Mr.. Foss last night "At
first tho Consolidated obliged us to pay a
rate of sl5 per month, but afterwards
they cut down the rate to $l2 per month.
Several years ago we had placed in about
so of the rooms Of the house incandes-
cents, but we found that the expense was
more than we could stand. The new
company will furnish us with an arc
light for SIS, showing that the price
of the Consolidated is about one hundred
Der cent higher than this"
william o. Alden, the owner OF the
Guppy drug store, has about So incandes'
cents He has examined the scheduled
rates of the Portland Electric Light COM
pany and says that he has been paying
about c. 90 per cent more for these lights
than will be charged by the new com
pany.
The Emerson Shoe store has 10 incan-
descents for which it's manager pays SIT. 10
Der month net This price Is a little
more than one hundred per cent more
than the Portland Electric Light com.
pany would charge.
Wendell Kirsch, the proprietor of the
cigar store on. Congress street near Brown,
has eight incandescents for which the
sum of 81 per month is paid for each.
''This is too much to pay" was the re-
mark that greeted the reporter. This
price is about one hundred per cent in
advance of that which would be charged
Mr.. Kirsch by the new company.
Foster, Avery g. Co. now have nine arc
lights which with the incandescents
make. about 200 lights. If supplied by the
new company this firm would save about
$500 per year over the price now being
paid to the Consolidated company, the old
company charging prices that are about
80 per cent higher than those that would
be charged by the new company.
The Douglass Shoe stors has incan des-
cents for which it pays 10 cents per
thousand watts, 30 per cent higher than