The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-24
This VIII be Net Price for
Consumers
WILL DISCARD THE DUMMY
President Jemlson of the Birmingham
Railway, Light and Power Com
pany Says 1t viii Soon Be
Dispensed With.

The Birmingham Railway. Light and
Power company has reduced the price of
it's Illuminating gas from $l.4O gross or
S1.26 net to s1.10 gross or s1.0O net per
thousand feet. The reduction will be
effective October l.
This is in accordance with the action
of the board of directors held yesterday
morning. A year ago the price was re-
duced from $1.65 gross to sl.4O gross and
as was the case then. this further re-
duction is made pursuance of a promise
on the part of the company that as the
business increased the consumers would
have the benefit of one dollar gas. The
price net means the price to those who
pay their bills on or before the 10th of
each month. The net price of gas for
cooking purposes has been s1.0O for some
time past
The board of directors also decided to
discontinue the sale of street car books
at $500 per hundred. In view Of the free
transfer system inaugurated last Satur-
day the management reached the concln-
sion that the company could not afford
to carry passengers for less than cents.
President Jemlson Talks.
After the meeting of the board Presi-
dent. Jemison said: THE company is
pushing its gas business and this reduce
ton from s126 to s1.O0 WILL 1t is believed.
be appreciated by the public and result in
more general increase. We have ex-
pended $780, 900 In betterments to our gas
Of inc
and in order to make this investment pay
we must obtain many new customers.
with regard to our street car busi-
ness" continued Mr.. Jemlson. "the trans
fers have not been in use long enough
for us to know just how they will oper-
ate as revenue producers, but the ex-
perience of companies in other cities will
doubtless be our experience. In Washing
ton 30 per cent of the passengers use
transfers, and in Nashville 40 per cent.
About 80 per cent of our patrons will
probably use transfers."
s1,5oo,o0o In Improvements.
The Birmingham Railway, Light and
Power company started out a year ago
to expend s1,50o,OOO on improvements and
extensions, and much of the work map
ped out then has been completed. The
East Lake line has been practically finish
ed. The Bessemer line has been double
tracked from Birmingham to tho old fair
grounds, distance of four miles, and
new double tracked line from the fair
grounds to Ensley, q distance of two
miles, has been constructed, giving new
route from this city to Ensley. This
Ensley line was to have been opened on
the first Of August, but when August
came 1t was found that more power than
the power plant was furnishing was
needed to run the cars at high speed
and the management decided not to at
tempt to operate the line until the new
engines were installed. All the engines
and machinery for doubling the capacity
of the power house have been delivered
to the company and they are being set
up as rapidly as possible. Mr.. Jemison
said the company hoped to dispense with
the dummy between here and the fair
grounds and operate cars on the new
Ensley route by the first of November