The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-29
DOLLAR GAS.
Some Towns Where Such Rate
Is In Force.
Why Topeka Should Be Given
Equal Advantages.
A POPULAR X A Il +
Sure to Make the Article It.
self Popular.
Facts and Figures With Few
Fancies For the Reader.
A POPULAR RAT L
what about that dollar gas?

What about that dollar gas?
The gas company of Topeka has not
yet announced its promised reductions
from the exorbitant rates still pald pS
the people OF this city That the com
pany itself has known for long Whlle
that the rates are excessive, IS SHOWN
by their agreement over year ago 10
reduce the gas rates as soon as cerlalH
improvements were made
Four months beyond the years time
asked for making these improvements
have gone by and still Topeka is with
out s.. 90 gas Recent expressions made
by city authorities have shown that $l.OO
gas was the understanding the rate
would be.
In his written communication to the
council a wear ago last February, the
president of the gas company SAID, re-
ferring to the improvements, when these
are completed the price OF gas Will be
so reduced that neither the council nor
the people viii have cause to complain
Il the gas company will make pop
ular rate for its product it will pop
1lIarize gas and it will go into the
houses of hundreds of families who are
now kept from using this great article
Tor light and fuel because the price
makes it prohibitive-
With gas at S1.OO the majority Of the
families in the city can afford to use
1t. rather than submit to the dangers
and annoyances of gasoline.
The State Journal refers to the gas
rates in force in Topeka as eXOrbitant
because it has authentic figures from
many cities in different portions of the
United States which show that in the
price the citizens of Topeka pay Ior gas
they are woefully imposed upon.
Of In oitx iC
per thousand feet; where used as fuel
IN gas stoves, the rate is $1.50; and
where used in gas engines, the rate is
S1.S5. These rates are simply beyond
reason.
The city of St. Joseph. Mo. pays $1.Oe
per thousand for light or fuel Why
should Topeka pay $1.65 for light and
$50 for fuel2
The city OF Evansville, Indiana, which
IS somewhat larger than Topeka, pays
81. 90 for gas for light and 80 cents for
gas for fuel purposes. Why should To
peka pay 60 per cent more for gas than
EVansvtlie2
Peoria, Ill, a town about the size of
Topeka, Il. 900. pays S1-oO for gas for
light and only 75 cents per thousand for
fuel. Why should the capital city of
Kansas pay from 90 to 100 per cent more
than Peoria?
Racine. Wis a city of 25,OOO pays
S100 per thousand for fuel and $1-20 per
thousand for light.
Cincinnati, Ohio, has 81. 90 gas and is
figuring on a big reduction.
In St Louis the rate for the larger
consumers for fuel purposes is down to
so cents.
In Terre Haute. Ind, a city of about
10000. the gas rate is 80 cents for light
and from 70 cents to 80 cents for fuel.
In Dubuque, Iowa. 10000 people, the
gas rate for fuel is S1oO.
In GAINESVILLE. Ohio, a city of $4,000,
the gas rate is s1.0O for light or fuel
In Springfield. Ill. a city of $4,000
people, the rate is 81 co for light or fuel.
In Lynn. Mass, a city of $4,000. the
rate is S1-O0 for light or fuel.
In Lowell, Mass, the rate is 90 for
light or fuel.
In Saginaw. Mich. a city of SO 600.
the rate is 100 for fuel
In Dayton. Ohio, city of $4,000, the
rate IS $le0 for light or fuel.
il Columbus. Ohio, the rate is 81 20
for Light or fuel
IN Gand Rapids, Mich, the rate is
SlO0 FOR light fuel.
In Hartford. Conn, the rate is s1OO for
light nd fuel.
In Fort Scott, Kansas, a city less than
haf the size Of Topeka, the rate is sIOO
for fuel In Fort Scott there is some
natural Sas, but none in paying qranli-
ties
In Saginaw. Mich. the rate is s1.OO
for fuel purposes.
In Bloomington. Ill, about half the
size OF Topeka, the rate is 81 90 for fuel
In Bay City, Mich. the rate is sIOO
Tor fuel. Wv
In Atchison, Kansas. half the size of
Topeka. the rate is S1121L for fuel
in Leavenworth, Kansas the rate for
fuel is 81 co.
The rates quoted above are in every
instance for manufactured gas and not
natural gas. In fact in none of the
shove named towns is there any natural
Eas, with the exception of Fort Scott
and three Ohio tOwns-ZanesviIIe
Dayton and Columbus The presence or
= bsence OF natural gas seems to c1It no
1lGure in the price and in fact lower
7ates are charged for manufactured gas
IN some of the cities above named where
no natural gas exists.
In many cities the rate is lust the
same for manufactured gas for either
light or fuel In number of cities
higher rate being asked for light than
Tor fuel