The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-22
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
NUMBER TIT.

sSIns lights; aps ss save .s. ifs gys yssE at each schramn, superintendent of the de- 1 partment of accounts and finances.
 The question was put to q vote. All voted in favor of the electric lights, A l resolution was then drawn directing the gas company to tear. out tts lamps
 suSe Worth of move. It protested. but MT Macvicar the Srdnsnss ,, or wsn GU. Sss
 The company has not agreed to the osdinsnrs otf ns ar3csn 6rt o ,s no longer fattng
 MT. Macvicar next took up the waterworks question, Des Moines is paying more for water, Mr: Macvtcar
 ssd Msss inan of aay se ci ssaspp ma riTss The coriipaiy was requested to lower It's rates. but refused. MT. Macvicar snd @ sss ossSai.s n ns Hn osainanoe sasGaIs as
 sssed rssusn the ssan ratss but the
 injunction restraining the city from enforcing the ordinance. and the case the nGw Tstes n m spss per pires in two years however, and even t sss esy S1ss % not n ss Is. case n ss asked for. 50 MT. Maevicar is not ParticSiariy savage has been the company. This corporation claims t has psTpetrai saa fraTSsiss TSs under snnssnss the franchise has expired and the case is now pending in the unitsd nu,s states pany has made. He has granted. no request of the o9mpsny n. ne @ Pas ssnsyei- gSii- houses that the company Is unable 10 borrow single dollar of money Its plant is running down. It's ears are neSV iieve the situation. % se 4 ss5o.ooS9 bridseI has just been built across the Des Moines river connecting what 1t konwn' Moines. % The street railway company, hauled rails and trolley poles 10 the bridge and prepared to lay tracks trolley if It pofss Ss pansS i'm n t crete before MT. Macyicar was aware of its intention. When he did learn
 f fo the tRs sr,sse hs snd ali hoies n with toment.. He. then issued ap order the sH,ISing gfassiai f9rsman on to the Srdss The company had no recourse. ,,,... this, that brought the COWpany tO. 1tS knees in plea for peace. Less than month ago 1t waved the white flag and through the Greater Des Moines committee. asked for arbitratlon; Ihs ts contention that it holds a perpetual franchise. 1t has agreed to settle With the city on the terms of the Chicago ordinance which gives the city 65 per cent Of the net revenues and which provides that the system shall be con- tFolled by a board of supervising en- gineers one to be appointed by the eompany. one by the city. and a third to mutually agreed upon The terms of settlement are now being reduced to writing. on the profit sharing 2ssis. suit of tho work of one man with council not controlled by pQplitics lr is simply business---such as any man would seek for himself.
 Mir. Macvicar has thoroughly reor- ganized the street department and has seen that every. man employed therein is capable of giving a fuiikdays work in return for tho pay he receives. There are no political htrelings the pay roll He has inspected every job. or paving done during the veal, ane has on numerous occasions stopped work in accordance with. specifcAaions.s He has broken up the asphalt paving eonn- pine by substttuting erscsoted blocks In the bnsineas risfriets and on one occasion ahipRe6 hack 4t Minneapolis Eearfoads 6f blocks for sing which were not up to specfacatfpns 1nssfacts he has seen that all work in his de- partmehf was worth the money hefore 1t was paid Tor. v@i f f