The Yale expositor., 1899-04-07
The Light and Water Commissioners
made the following report:

The Light and Water Commissioners
made the following report:
Yale, March 28th, 1899.
To the President and Council of the
Village of Yale.
Your Light and Water Board would
respectfully report that after due and
careful consideration and investigation
of the cost of running the electric light
and water works plant of the village
and of the benefits that the people re-
ceive from the said plant in the way of
well lighted streets and from the fire
protection that we now enjoy, we
have come to the conclusion that the
people of the village should pay about
the cost of said street lighting and fire
protection and that your honorable
body should appropriate from the con-
tingent fund of the village such sums
as each arc light and hydrant is worth,
such sum to be placed to the credit of
the light and water fund so as to show
the actual earnings of the plant, and
we believe from the experience of the
past four months that we are safe in
saving that if the electric light and
water works plant is allowed the pay
it should have from the village for the
street lighting and fire protection, that
the plant will more than pay all run
ming expenses this its first and hardest
wear. and we also think that if the peo-
pie will take hold of the lights and
water as we expect they will during the
coming summer that the plant will by
next year not only pay all running ex-
penSeS but also the interest on the pub
lie debt.
In our investigation as TO the cost of
running the arc lamps we found that
in other villages they were paying from
500 to So q year for each arc lamp and
we also found other villages that were
paying from $50 to $50 a year each for
common incandescent lamps that are
no better than our oil lamps were for
street lighting purposes, and we would
remind your honorable body that two
years ago you were ready TO grant a
franchise to a private corporation to
allow them to put in an electric light
system in the village and was ready to
give them $4,000 year for each arc
lamp that the village used. We
would also call your attention to the
fact that an examination of the village
books shows that the village was rails
ing by taxation and expanding from
800 to $500 a year for the old oil lamps
that were always very unsatisfactory,
and can not in any way be compared
with the present system of street
lighting.
In regard to the MIGRANTS we found
that other villages were paying from
$50 to 500 a year for each hydrant for
fire protection and we also found by
enduring of the insurance agents, that
the rates on insurance were reduced,
on account of the water works, from
Is to 30 per cent, according to the class
of buildings insured. We would call
your attention to the NJ. +. church fire.
There was building with its contents
that is worth at the lowest estimate
$500. covered by $1,000 insurance,
which, had it not been for the water
works would have burned to the ground
and probably burned some of the ad-
joining property with it; but as it was
the water works put out the fire and
saved the Nj. +. church people $4,000
and the insurance companies $1,000
and should be given credit for it.
Therefor be it resolved, That we re-
quest the Common Council to appro-
pirate from the Contingent fund $48
a year for each arc light used for street
lighting purposes, and $25 a year for
each hydrant used for fire protection,
and to pay it monthly to the secretary
of the Light and Water Board, the
same as other light and water funds
are paid and placed to the credit of the
Light and Water fund.
All of which is respectfully submit
ted. f. II. BEECHER,
j. Ii. STEVENS,
II. ANDREAE,
Commissioners.
Moved by Ferguson and supported
by Mcintyre that the report of the
Light and Water Board be accepted,
and that the Council will pay the Light
and Water fund each month a sum
equal to $4S year for each arc light
used for street lighting purposes and
1924 year for each hydrant used for
fire northumberland.
The Light and Water Commissioners
made the following report:
Yale, Mich, March %. 1898.
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