The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-28
Clizbe Gives Facts.

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Clizbe Gives Facts.
The water works proposition
in Plymouth, and its present con-
diticn, and proposed Improvement
is such long story" said Mr..
Clizbe, that l really don't know
where to begin. | believe that it
will be OF no use to GO back be-
lore the report of the water works
situation, which | published in
all OF the Plymouth papers, and
which no doubt was read by
every one of you, if not it is not
my fault. This report covered the
situation, up to a short while ago
showed the present expense of
running the plant, how the water
was wasted, and how a change
was long past due and necessary.
Now then, in regard TO my cleo
ton to the city council. / realize
that ! was elected by the business
men of the. city. In making my
campaign | said that if elected
| would be for Plymouth first,
and always. | am still OF that
frame of mind, and will continue
just as long as | am councilman
OF Plymouth, and to the best of
MY ability. / believe that the
city council has not gone into
this Improvement Of the water
works blindly, instead the mat
ter was thoroughly studied out !;
every detail was investigated;
every item OF expense and receipt
was examined and digested,-and
it became more apparent that an
Improvement OF the plant was
necessary, for financial reasons
for the city of Plymouth. After
our examination, the report was
published in the papers. Not
WISHING to rest entirely upon our
own figures, we hired an expert.
NJ. Blonc of Chicago, who made
an investigation and report,
which bore up our own figures,
and somewhat reduced them, this
report was also published in the
papers. In regard to the Snoe-
berger allegation which has been
inSinuated, / will state that / now
think just as much of Mr.. Snoe-
berger, as | did last year, no more
and no less. The affair of grant
ing Snoeberger the electric light
franchise is a bygone-we had
no hand in that, and the discus
Sion of it would be a waste of
time. | did testify that | could
not use electrical power at the
prices quoted by Snoeberger with
economy. Certainly not. 1t would
be impossible for Snoeberger to
make me an attractive price for
power, or make an attractive
price to MIR. Cleveland of the
basket factory, or Mr.. Thayer of
the Novelty factory. The reasons
are these-Mr. Cleveland has re-
fuse to burn, SO also has Thayer,
this would exclude the use of
electical power by them. AS for
my factory, | must have steam
for heating purposes. Only very
little more is required for power.
| believe that this explains why
electical power could not be used
economically in any of the Ply
mouth factories. But the water
works proposition is a different
situation. AT present, according
to a statement of Engineer J. G.
Leonard, published Tin the Tri-
bune) on April 8, the running ex
penses of the water works plant
are $350.65 per month, of which
the items are coal, engineers sal
airy, supt.'s salary. oil, packing
and waste etc. Now then a few
weeks ago Mr.. Snoeberger pre-
scented to the city council, a bid
for pumping the water for the
city, at a cost of $115 per month.
This looked good to us,-a saving
of 1926 month I'M pumping the
city water, or $1,000 per year. We
investigated the situation. believ-
ing that we could do it for less.
We communicated with electrical
water pumping manufacturers, in
regard to the cost of operation of
such pumps etc. A letter from the
Demming Co., of Chicago quotes
price of suitable triplex cleo