The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-12-14
FINE FIXTURES
REMAIN UNUSED
Long Line of Houses Equipped for
Electricity Are Lighted by the
Faithful Oil Lamp.
HASTE MADE IN SUMMER
PROVES OF NO AVAIL
Now Man Who Brought About
the Situation Passes Along to a
Higher Responsibility Leaving
Mourning Housewives.

Out on Mob Hill boulevard, which
is the new and stylish name for the
old South Mob Hill road, better
known to old timers as the Wide
Hollow road, there is a row Of
houses containing as fine an assort-
ment Of electric light fixtures as
one would want to see anywhere.
Some of the houses are bungalows
after the latest pattern; others are
remodeled farm houses. All are
comfortable homes. Their owners
are persons of taste and discrimina-
ton, as was shown when they came
to pick out electroliers for their
h uses. Some of the people are
wealthy and din't think a hundred
dollars or better too much to spend
on Quitting for the light.
In some of the homes these fix
fixtures have been in place three
months. Yet at each home of art
glass dome and beaten brass cleo
calls each week, dispensing the re-
liable coal oil which will burn in
most any old kind of lamp
Began in September.
Feeling that with city water, city
lights, telephone and street car SER
vice, they could have all the adj
vantages of a city home with the ad-
ditional profit of bearing orchard
producing to the tune of several hun
dred dollars per acre, these subur-
banites laid the matter before the
superintendent of the Pacific Light
& Power company. That was some
time in September. The company
agreed to extend it's line if ten peo-
pie would agree to use the lights.
Twelve promptly signed up. An en-
ploye of the company went out, in
tervewed the subscribers and told
them to go ahead with their fixtures.
He talked about the delivery of the
current in couple of weeks.
People made haste with their
equipment in order to be ready when
the illumination arrived. Houses
were wired, and bulbs ordered. But
nothing happened. Impatient in
quiry at the power company's office
developed the fact that new poles
would have to be set to carry the
wire from Johnson's corner. Another
pause. Then one day a man was
seen taking measurements on the
road. The report got abroad that
the measuring might have something
to do with the setting of the poles
poles have yet sprouted.
Blame Strike.
Then the electrical workers went
on strike, and though the power
company said to the public that the
strike would make little difference
with it's work. it said to the people
who wanted electricity and couldn't
get it, that it made all the difference
in the world. The hope was held out,
! however, that the power might ar
rive about the middle of November.
Now, superintendent Way, who
has been making the promises, an
nounces that he is going to move
up to a higher position, and the
would-be-lit by electricity people are
wondering if they are going to be
left in the lurch. If it takes as long
to galvanize into action his successor
as it has done Supt. Way, they say
they will receive the coveted ilum-
nation some time next summer when
the days are so long that the Yaki-
ma sun is plenty good enough to &C
to bed by.
1t has been good thing, though
for the electrical SUNNY people, and
the ranchers may possibly get some
satisfaction out of the shades ant
globes as ornaments to their homes
even though they still sit in outer
darkness