The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-06
POOR LIGHTS
CAUSE PROTEST
Business Houses Ask CONNER
cial Clubs Assistance.
Mr.. CAMPBELL EXPLAINS
SAYS COMPANY Is FASTENING
TO REMEDY DEFECT.
Mr.. CAMPBELL EXPLAINS

THE ALLEGED detective service Of
the Utah Iisht & Power company
is To Dee Investigated by a commit
tee OF the Commercial club. At "a meet
ing If The board Of governors last even
ing the following petition WAS pre-
scented.
Salt Lake City. Utah. oct. .g 1888.
TO The President and Board OF Govern
ors of the Commercial club:
Dear Sirs-The undersigned mep:bcrs
and merchants of this city respectfully
ask your good offices ana assistance iu 81
matter that is of the utmost Importance
ih me successful transaction Of retail
business
We are wholly dependent upon The Utah
light d Power company for our lighting
service. We pay the maximum price fOr
lhe poorest possible light. 10 is well
, kuoNn TACT that tnis companys plant ls
rnlitei\ lh1de0uate 60 supply the wants
on INC business district of this city. ON O.
0dturda\ rN'uln-. when the lights arr,
most needed. tho voltage iS So defective
lnal "a barely furnishes sufficient IrEt
Tor me proper transaction Of ordinary
business. 90 SAY nothing of brilliantly
hshted stores Tho arc HEhtS keep going
1ut ami tlc incauoeScrnts give q; +ickN
little red flicker unworthy of tho name
tlai an electric lSht implies For this
poor service We pay iuil price.
our repeated complaints appear 90 rD-
ceiNc no attention. AT amy rate tho evil
bias not been rcmcdied and this poor
llchtlnE service iS SO serious that 10 BIAS
/ become wCluiEh uuEcarable.
INC large volume 90 holiday business
that we hope to transact Ev artificial
Z hshuug Dis IN jeopardy unless This COM
panE manages 90 remedy their defective
system w q respectfully ask YOU 10 use
your best efforts To devise q remedy OF
the evil complained Of so that Do may
benefit us during the approaching holiday
osigned) L. q a. Cohn. Walker Bros.
DrN Goods company. per s y. SlelD-
Druehi a. Frankcn. Tho Paris Millinery
company. AdolDh simon. secretary. Pal
ace Meat Market. per n. j. NiDDer- Corn
forth & Pond. keith-O Bricu company. %.
n. Ferguson, secretary; Davis Shoe COM
pany. per b. Davis, j.. IT.. Leys0u COM
paoy. per c. r. PearsalI. The Lace House
company. by y. a. Rausohotf. The King
Hardware d Stove company Galloway.
HoOck d. Francis, j. p. Gardner. by T.. =.
Gardner.
On motion. Governor Wells. who pre-
sided I'm the absence of President =. =.
Holmes and Vice President Joseph A
Silver. appointed the following COM
mittee to investigate the complaint. s.
" Shelp. chairman. F. W Francis. J.
J. Judson, II. N. Dinwoodey and John
r. DOOly- The committee is to meet
Saturday night and report TO the board
of governors Tuesday night
r. s. Campbell. manager Of the Utah
Light q Power company said last
evening that every effort is being made
to reinforce the power at the earliest
possible moment
Nj CampbelPs Explanation.
"The demands Of the service are
growing, he said. "and the company
IN the last two years has spent. di-
rectly and indirectly. over $500 900 I'm
the service. Within the last sixty days
we have added. at a cost OF S150O00
steam plant Of l500-hOrsepOWer capaC-
ity. We are now completing arrange
ments for the addition. at a cost of
over 100000. of 1000 more horse power
from Bear river. This viii be fur
nished by the Bear River Irrigation
company The generating plant is
completed. the material for the trans
mission line is on the ground. and the
line - being put up ut the rate of q
mile a day IT has just reached Brig
ham City and should reach a c0nnec-
ton with our present line IN ogden by
the end Of the month. T. hope that by
Dec. u we can have the use of this
additional power. which VIII be I'm time
for the extraordinary demands of the
holiday season. This viii be an adj
dltion OF 20 per cent. 90 the maximum
mean capacity of our present plant.
The line should have been completed
i'm July, but there were delays i'm se-
curing material We are doing an we
can to give our patrons the best serv-
ice If they viii only be patient a
little while longer we VIII remove the
only cause for complaint which is the
dimness of the lights for a short time
Saturday nights
Cities to Pull Together.
At the meeting OF the board of gov
ernors last night it was decided to
enter into an arrangement with the
commercial bodies of Denver. Salt
Lake. Los Angeles san Francisco.
Portland. Seattle Tacoma. Spokane
and. ogden 90 pull for these cities all
possible national conventions during
1903. This is the year Of the Lewis and
Clarke exposition. Tt is figured that
there are 200 national conventions
which cam De induced TO come west
that year. The idea is 10 form q COM
mittec with one member from each city
TO decide what convention each city is
90 get. and then 20 combine forces t0
set the gathering FOR that city IL is
hoped TO have the first meeting of the
committee i'm Salt Lake.
l. II. FarnsWOrth was elected
member of the board Of governors last
evening ia place of j. j. DAILY who re-
signed on account of ill-health.