Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-14

price, S1,056 per city block, $15,S4O TOT
the fifteen blocks last ordered. Some
body has told Councilman Good that
the granitoid people will sue and obtain
a royalty anyway, but the mayor OF
Fond du Lac says: 1--WE laid about ono
and one-half miles of this pavement last
year and the Rudolph S. Blome Com
pany, of Chicago, threatened us with
suit last year. We, however, care
fully investigated the matter, and de-
cided that their patent, if they had one,
did not apply to the pavement that we
had under construction. AS yet we
have not been sued. This year we are
laying about six miles of the same kind
of pavement, and we We're threatened
with a suit. We. however, proceeded
and did not pay any attention to 1T. AS
yet we have not been sued" There rs
no difference in pavements here and at
Fond du Lac, but vast difference in
mayors and in price.
Somebody must have b1undered ter
ribly when NcCarten was put on the
ticket. A man with a will of his own,
and a conscience, is SO apt to prove
troublesome.
George Herman may or may not be in
the right as to the wisdom of buying
a pressure tank, and the question will
be put up to Professor Marston, but
evidently George is not willing to be-
ieve all the tank statesmen tell him.
The mayor wants a bond for $4,000,
that the holder of a new franchise will
put reduced rates into effect within
thirty DAYS, or else a bond for $4,000
that he will build a new plant. Now, If
it should transpire that Darling is as
ISOLATED with Pratt in getting a new
franchise for Jones & Hovey, no new
set of interurban builders could put up
bond to sell service within thirty
days. because they could not buy Jones
& Hovey, and the $4,000 bond is made
excessively high so as to freeze them
out of building a rival plant
Three hours We're devoted to a eau
Gus on public utility franchise matters,
but still no news as to what rates the
new man will propose on gas and cleo
trio lights. What is the matter with
his rates anyhow? Wont they look well
in print?
We are told that the mayor has
forced the new man to agree to extend
the street car lines to the city park in
1910, that in 1912 he must extend from
the soldiers home gate and around
past the Ingledue farm of 120 acres on
Main street The line to the fair
grounds can wait until 1914, and the
Fifth ward will come last in 1915. No
one should have serious objection TO
developing the Ingledue farm, for that
| is desirable territory to develop, but
why omit a bond of say 100000 for
performance. In case the franchise
goes to Jones & Hovey we ought to
have this much of a guarantee any
way. but, of course if the cost of street
car extension is to come out of electric
Light and gas consumers, then the street
car extensions perhaps do not need so
many guarantees. When Colonel Pratt
was here for Jones & Hovey he told US
| that the gas plant here ought to sell
45, 900 600 cubic feet of gas every year.
A difference of 10 cents thousand
cubic feet would yield the company
$4,000 per year extra. A difference OF
| / cent per kilowatt on electric light
rates would amount to $4,000 of $4,000
per year, and these two items alone
are enough to pay the cost of extending
a street car line one mile per year and
) could easily keep up with the mayors
schedule. Is this the game. or elst
why not discuss the rates?
: Another phase of the question thai
does not look good is this. If the mayor
&c o+.ap,n.iDo "a "tote fair in nraSent.
ing his conditions to rival companies
why is it that he announces that hi:
: Mr.. Darling can comply with ever,
one of the mayors conditions witt
the possible exception of the 2 per cen
tax. and that he is going to Chicago
TO put this up before his people? Nh
a Darling Is informed Of conditions Il
be met before the public is aware wha
these conditions are to he, and befor
the rival company has any idea wha
n is to be demanded. Why were not MI
:. Mcbride and his associates given tn
h same inside track? If the mayor i
$ really trying to benefit the town by
4 reduction of rates for public utilities
he can get these reductions with
q wide-open field rather than thru
: shut-out game. If we had four com
:. panies, instead of two, trying to get il
n on the franchise. the chances are tn
\. people would get a rate nearer wha
It they are demanding If the deal
:. FRAMED up so that only one man ca.
d be a bidder, the game looks more Xix
d freeze out.
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