Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-27

Showing Ol lnCItdot OF decrease III
the following items contained in the report
for the fiscal year ending May 81 1908, as
compared with the corresponding items con-
tanned in the report for the fiscal year end
ing May 81, 1902:
Personal account charged
to profit and loss 1896 62 increase
Amount expended on SER
vice and main 667 70 decrease
Amount expended upon
retorts $50 90 decrease
Amount expended for
pipe and fittings 593 81 decrease
(See Note A)-Amount
expended for coal 4,279 16 increase
Amount expended for
lime 2O5 SO increase
Amount expended for
meters 3l5 81 increase
Amount expended for
general expense 3l6 80 increase
See Note C)-Cash re-
ceiyed from sale Of tar 145 ~ increase
Cash received from sale
of lime 40 decrease
(See Note B)-Cash re-
ceiyed from sale of coke 621 Al increase
Cash received from sale
of old iron SO 90 decrease
Gross profit from gas sold
consumers 2,49f - increase
Net earnings upon gas,
etc, sold consumers 4o4 81 decrease
Amount of gas used by
the city n 81 decrease
Net earnings upon gas,
etc., sold consumers
and used by the city 562 A decrease
Amount of gas bills out
standing at end of fis-
cal year 57S "a decrease
Cash received from sale
of gas 3,l3I % increase
Discount allowed gas con-
sumers 1856 80 increase
coke s rs increase
Amount of gas produced
cubic feet) ,622 500 increase
| Amount of gas sold con-
sumers (cubic feet 2,Ob4, 4OO increase
| Amount of gas used by
the city Cubic feet 81, 800 decrease
Amount of gas unac-
counted for (cubic feet $4,000 decrease
NOTE A.-By reason of the strike which
has prevailed throughout the Pennsylvania
coal region the operation of the gas works has
been severely handicapped during, nearly,
the entire present fiscal year, and as a conse-
quence the cost Of producing gas has been
| greatly increased. Those to whom had been
| awarded the contract for supplying the works
with coal during the fiscal year took early adj
vantage of the clause in their contract which
declared that the said contract should be void
| i'm case of strikes, lOckOuts, contingencies OF
| transportation, or other causes beyond their
| control during any portion Of time covered by
the contract, etc., and by their failure to sup
ply the works with the requisite amount OF
coal compelled the committee to buy coal
| when. where and at what price they could
| The result was that the committee had to buy
| coal upon the open market regardless of
| quality and at prices ranging as high as 81 .
| per ton, entailing an increased cost to the
| works Of $4,279.16 for coal during the fiscal
year.
NOTE B.-The receipts from the sale ofcoke
exceed that Of any previous year. The in
crease amounting TO $627.41 is only slight
ly due to the increase in the price, the in
crease from that cause amounting only to
$74.5S.
MORE C.-The increase in the receipts from
the sale of tar, amounting to Sl45.7e, is owing,
in the opinion of the committee, to their policy
of selling that product by contract.
NOTE D.-As the work Of installing the
new gas plant is still in progress, the expend
lures made by the general fund upon that ae-
count have been omitted from the records Of
the gas Office until such time as the work Of
installing the new plant shall have been com
peted. , ~
Examined and found correct,
JOHN T. JOHNSON,
J. Ii. TRIMYER
THOMAS w. CLARK,
w. III. SWEENEY,
WILLIAM DESMOND
Committee On Light.
City Treasurer's Office, Alexandria. Va.
Thomas w Robinson, City Treasurer.
In account with the City Gas Works for the
year ending May 31st, 1908
RECEIPTS.
June /, 1902.-To balance
in Treasury 1867 %
To deposits by Samuel L.
Monroe, Clerk of Gas,
from June list, 1902, 10
May 3lst 1908, inclu-
sive 1917 80
+ sS6.745.SO