The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-12-30

imsn0hh aStepNtu Az oPoeA1 va
lage Meeting Wednesday Evening
General Satisfaction.
The matter of lighting the streets oi
z iifatilcboro II apparently settled fof 4
Z term of H. YeaTr. Ai the special VII
I lage meeting IN Festival hall Nednrs'
I ,lay evening. after nearly two hours oi
] debate, Ii Nns voted in order the hail
! ills a. make lNNenr contract with
I the Twin State Gas q Electric company
I for lOniMaii s0,candlvpowcr tungsiens
Go replace the present are lamps The
price Of $50 a year made by Manager
h. N. Adds Of the Twin State com
pany az the eleventh hour for all'nighi
lights Of this type was largely instrn'
mental in preventing vote IN favor
Of u municipal plant.
Al slO Chairman Ernest !. Water.
man of the bailiiis called the meeting
10 order and Clerk William II. Perry
read the warrant. This document stat
ed that the meeting was called To listen
20 report Of the bailiffs In regard 90
the action Of the board upon the vote
taken ai the special village meeting.
Dee. =. when the voters ordered one
wear contract 10 be made with the Twin
State company M the figures ai which
the lighting company offered 20 make a
fiye.year contract. There were also
articles in the warrant 10 see what ac'
iion the voters would take in regard to
installing u municipal plant and TO
provide funds TO build such q plant If
il was voted 10 install one. Through the
failnre Of Chairman Waterman 10 read
Manager Adds : letter making rates
for n l0-year contract debate was con.
iinucd until several speakers displayed
symptoms of lame throats.
The report of the bailiffs and special
citizens committee, consisting OF Col.
i. @. Estey and Horton y. Walker,
which was asked for nj the meeting
held Dec. was presented Wednesday
evening. II was rs follows:
"Up to the time of the special village
meeting held Dec. . the members of the
committee had hoped that the Twin
State Gas 4 Electric company mi"ht be
persuaded TO concede fair rate for
commercial and residential lighting
The action of the Twin State company
upon their failure to secure a fve.year
contract for the village lighting, and
their unreasonable and arbitrary ad-
vance in the rates for street lighting
over those which had previously been
verbally arranged for and had been in
effect since the expiration of the pre-.
vious contract in August, 1910, con-
vinces us that il is useless for the citi-
zens of this community to expect to re-
ceive from the Twin State company the
rates for electric lighting and power
which were recommended in the Adams
report, and which we believe we are
entitled to receive by reason of the |
splendid hydro-electric power station
at our doors.
at is also plainly evident to us from |
the attitude of the Twin State company |
that they do not propose to give con
to the suggestions made to
them by citizens of Brattleboro in re-
gard to lower lighting rates, We be.
lieve that the statement made by the
manager of the Twin State company,
that they cannot afford to enter into a
one.vear contract because they cannot
buy supplies as cheaply for one year
as for five. is without foundation in
fact We do not know what they
would buy for the village lighting
equipment which could be bought any
cheaper on a five-year contract than
one-year contract,
After careful consideration of the
surrounding the, Lighting
situation il is our firm belief that the
only way in which the citizens of this
community can receive the benefits to
which they are entitled, in the line of
reasonable rates for electric light and
power, as. well as municipal lighting, is
by the installation of municipal
light and power system. We believe
such system can be made profitable
for the village, and we strongly rec
ommend favorable action on this propo-
sition, looking to the installation of
plant. -
With this report was presented a
,unch of statistics relating to the rates
,harged bv municipal plants in Swan
-on. Morrisville and HYDE Park. The
-enort also included the correspond
,nce which has passed between the
win state companv and the bailiffs
vas voted to make a one.vear contract
As CIerk Perry finished reading this
mail sheaf of correspondence Chairman
Waterman referred to a letter which
w w "Iu1 had i'I received from Manager Adds
,bont 40 minntes before the meeting
'a u,rrodl,, be road a mart of it
,h;nb ,gT;nIo. oonta;nad tbe offer of the Twin
W. Snttn oo,,nanv r. furnish 1oO.watt 20.
oeaSI oaaiono,nar noret tnnostans for 400 wear
"a u 1O.vear enntract Evidently the
~ ,nroa "a nf nf y+ha lettnr was lost or X was
,ot ot'1 beard o 'I bv those Interested. for de.
,o ,oto oont;nnad for over an honr and a
,ale if ftar 4he letter ito was was read The let
or ,,,.i was as follows.
20 t.w .,,, wi, +ho nroson+ svs+er
we Will supply, Che plesGh' s!inItoni !iI
IS 1t now Is, TOT lgntlng t.e vinage
treets all mgnt ana every nIgnt on "a
hree-year contract, at Ihese ra1es' AS ~
watt, 4o cp: tungsten lamps, @Is eacn
yer year; 2,Oo9 cp. mig 5 stanuaro are
amps, $io each per year.
ION a nVe-year coHoIacC we oloi