The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1906-12-15
THE ELECTRIC
LIGHT WAR
Continues With Unabated FerOcity.
Alderman II. Y. StilIman Replies
to Manager S. II. Cove.


Mr. Cove has a long letter in the Hall
fax Journal (aS also in the Gazette
News apparently intended as reply to
my letter in your last issue. He may
have convinced his readers that Still
man is very bad man, and that neither
he nor the agent of acetylene' ought
to he allowed to vote, but that is only
another reason why the matter should
be left t. their successors IN the new
council.
He further lutlmatcS that the plant
will not be worth 80 cents on the dol
lar if it cannot get an income from the
city" This shows that l was too mod
crate in my statement that q fve-year
contract would add 5000 to $4,000 to
the value of the plant
Mr.. Cove and every one else knows
that tie plant would be worth more
after getting Il five-year contract; and
vet he says am mot honest" in saving
that Mr.. Schantz would want more
did not say that, because | do not
know how much he wants now He may
feel so sure of getting the tive-year con-
tract that he has already added its value
to his asking price. He will certainly
want then all the property is worth at
that time That is the reason why the
following item appears in the same pa
per under Council Proceedings, Deem
Der 10, 1906"
Moved by Alderman Stil'man, that a
committee be appointed to consider the
advisabiIity of purchasing the electric
light plant now Carried"
He says want Nh Schantz to show
where any other city pays us much as
Daytona.' Wrong again. said Mr..
Schantz should call our attention to any
city paying anything like 6 cents per
hour for a hight In reply he cites ten
places using $50 lights at an average
cost of about >! cents per hour had
never seen memoranda of the lights IN
any of the places mentioned 10y him. ex-
cept jacksonville, or | might have said
We are paying for more are lights than
other cities in the state having from two
to ten times our population. He says,
"even the prices given by Mr. Sullman
are not correct, and states that the
price i'll Columbus, Ohio, is $3.50, and
there is 40 price IN Topeka az it Is
owned by the city. That is why | SAID
1t COST Topeka, Kan, $40" l SAID
nothing about the PRICE don't know
the date of the book he claims to have
shown me and from which he gets his
figures. The Municipal Journal and
Engineer of November I, 1906, says
Columbus has a municipal plant; that
the operating cost" of the are lights
was 80; total, 1915; and that the
price per X W Of incandcscent CONNER
cial lights was ) cents proposed.' 1t
- ii new I)ldll.
| trust did not mislead any of your
readers into believing that the popula-
ton and locations of the cities l men
toned were similar to that of Daytoua
Everyone knows the difference: verv
few know the advantage possessed by
the Daytona plant. In single year it
has made 2542 tons of ice at 4 cost Of
$50 per ton. Your readers who have
been paying for this ice at the rate of
from SO to $50 per ton can see some
thing to offset the greater cost Of fire
wood. The ice question will be up for
consideration shortly
price for IA 10 pay, and on October -
on my motion the council voted to re-
new the contract for the ensuing year at
that rate. The council has not tried
to throw the responsibility on another
council 1t is not willing to pay 1928
4 year for d light until some reason for
the 10 per cent increase has been given
Neither does il insist on i contract for
4 whole year at 800. 1t suggests 4 con
tlnuancc 1T the Old rate for two or three
50 rs 10 give Mr. Cove All op-
pOTtunlty to nominate and elect five
members who viii represent the ma
lorlty' and Will accede to the demands
Of the light company. We do not wish
to destroy the plant by installing other
lights next month"; but we do not intend
that the streets shall remain in dark
ness Mr. Cove has refused our propo-
sitIon and demands 1925 for each Of our
81 arc lights. He now publicly an
n"unces that ii the city lights 60 out
On january it viii be up to the council
and not Mr. Schantz' This IS merely
Z, federation Of what l have said was
his argument for demanding t cents per
hour for 4 light
| viii gladly forgive hlm for All the
naughty things he has SAID about me if
ne will send down TO Us some OF the
nerve tonic or good backbone invig-
orator that he thinks the council needs
and Of which he has evidently taken