Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1907-06-01
FAILURE IN BOSTON.
Municipal Ownership Tr.oI By the
Hub, but FoulL y'..1,.nJ.

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II Was Voted In 1906 Net to Try to
Establish Municipal c : snd Electric
Light Works Because t. lisJ n ld
Already Shown It's lnabr... - Carry
on Public UtiIities-History Of the
| Unsuccessful Attempts.
In 1906 the city council of Boston
voted against attempting municipal gas
and electric lighting ON the .sr1und chat
the city had already proved It's uabl-
| ity in such matters by Il succession of
| failures in various trading cI;c p"iSe5.
In 1897, for instance. B)S m tab
| lishcd municipal printing plant. Five
years later, in 1902. Harvey Chase. an
expert accountant, who was CN ',Hil-
| ing all the city departments for Mayor
| Collins, and Thomas T. Nichols. an cX-
| pert printer, reported That the pant
| had already lost over $4,000 and that
| greater loss was avoided only ly
| charging other departments mo than
| they would have had to pay outside
| printers.
They also reported that Mt the time
| of the investigation the stock room was
crowded with unnecessary paper. inks,
| etc, bought Mt great cNOcus" and liza
| BILE to depreciation by hln Hing or dun
age by fire; that some val'a'lc stock.
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