Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-09-18
From Thussdsy's Daily.


 .nr,riutendcnt of the Prescott Flee. iric company of this city, is in trouble m pasadena, where he recently in. tailed a municipal lighting plant. Charges were made that the equipment and construction were not up to the standard and m expert was called in to make q thorough examination. The cxpert's 6 report is very unfavorablc to class. as the following report from los Angeles paper shows;
 Tho present condition of the munic' ipal electric lighting plant has been shown by Ezra r. Scattcrgood, the electrical engineering expert, to be far from the perfect piece of construction work that has been maintained for it hv Superintendent Charles C. Glass, and whether the latter approves of the proposition or not the probabilities are that a third expert engineer will be called in to settle matters of doubt ,hnt now haunt Mayor Farley and members of the city council If n third expert is not called in the city administration will have to choose be tween the representations and recon mcnda,ions of Superintendent Gias' or MT. Scattcrgood, and at the pres cnt writing the latter stanCs in tho better light with the administration officials.
 Engineer Scattcrgood has throwi down the gauntlet squarcly to super in,cndent Glass and the situation n regard to the lighting problem IS no nearly as hnrmonjous as Mayor Earle and some of his closest advisers woul prefer to sec it. Mir. Scattcrgood feel that he has been placed in n false DO stion before the people in regard his review of the lighting plant fc which work he was selected as an e' pcrt. He denies with warmth that ! has attempted in even the remote manner to reflect upon the city's lgl superintendent, and in the presence the mayor and city councilmcn on ia Friday evening he SO informed " Glass.
 IL appears that Scattergood has companicd his recent report with ha and fast figures and facts from wh' there appears to be no escape wn Superintendent Glass has not s'reng .ncd the faith that his official frleh have in him and his work. Sunm izcd. it is stated that the latter fciaI has "gucsscd" at many or conclusions, while Scattergoo'
 submitted reasons and explanations everything he has recommended
 When the city officials were Scck cnlightmcnt on the subject of 'nl' ing and completing the lighting p'' mast of the members were too exp ant that scattereood and Glass we easily and quickly settle differences view. This expectation, however not rewarded, and as matter o' ! it is now being stated that Glass not make the favorable impr'ss'o" wns anticipated.
 Now that it is no longer s' that the. criticisms aimed at th" struction of the municipal hg" plant have some foundatlon' no can come from giving public'ty some of the alleged causes Tor
 n,aint which have been lodged
 tim. to time with the Pasadena spondcnt of the Examiner
 There are more electric lights South Orange Grove avenue
 Colorado street to Columbia street therc are in tho entire Fire Dis'rie wh;cb includes the main por'i" the business section. SoutH " Grove avenue is one of the high' residence sections, where muit'" aires have their palatial mansions
 There are thirty lights on So"' angc Grove avenue ana some '' brackets are said to bo pulling ready. In support of the chare
 poor construction m instance
 fouud at the corner of Fair oak
 nue and Carter street, whero ''
 wire was guycd down so c'oso
 cannot he set out far enough fr'
 butt of the pole to give a"
 strain.
 Wires have been strung U"
 trees, which, on q wet or dewy
 would cause fire. These iron p