Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18
MEETING CALLED To AID
PASADENA LIGHT PLANT
Citizens will Assemble Tonight in
Council Room in the
City Hall

PASADENA, June 1S.-A mass meet
ing of citizens will be held in the
council chamber of the city hall to-
night at 7:9O o'clock to perfect plans
for a systematic campaign for Gus
toners for the municipal lighting plant.
No set speeches are scheduled.
Several of the leaders in Pasadena's s
women's clubs are planning to form
civics committee made up of delegates
from all the clubs to take action on
the lighting question and other sub
jects which may come up for consider
alton in the future.
The call for tonight's meeting was
made by the committee of fifteen which
met Wednesday night and which is
made up of representative citizens who
have dropped everything, including
their business, to work for municipal
lighting. The call is as follows:
THE CALL
believing that the greatest success
of the Pasadena city lighting plant is
the common cause of all citizens, and
that it's support is the civic duty of
all; knowing that no private concern
will always maintain rates at which,
as it says, it cannot make money, that
for the perpetuation of a scent light
ing rate the people can look to the
municipality alone, and that for the
establishment and perpetuation of such
rate the city must have the general
support Of the people; the undersigned,
pledging them selves to the earnest and
active support of the municipal plant,
and invoking the patriotism and civic
loyalty of the citizenship of Pasadena,
hereby invite all citizens, who are
willing to join with them in active
and organized work upon behalf of the
municipal plant, to meet with them
in the council chamber in the city hall,
on Saturday, June is, at 1880 o'clock
in the evening"
The call is signed by the following
citizens: George E. Abbott, Ernest N.
Wright, Solon Briggs, Robert S. Allen.
H. G. Cattell, Joseph Israel, George
J. Brenner, Ernest H. May, w. B.
Loughery, Willis I. Morrison, Charles
Grimes, c. w. Rhodes. Ezra S. Scat
tergood, Torrey Everett and Garfield
r. Jones.
WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN
CITY officials declare that beginning
Monday morning a whirlwind cam
paign will be instituted, with the city
solicitors thoroughly organized and as
signed to districts under the leader
ship of volunteer captains.
Reports have come to city officials
that Edison solicitors in some in
stances are offering to rent rooms
where the Iandlady will install cor
poration current, and holding out
promises to others that if they stick
bv the Edison they will eventually be
granted the fiat rates which were
knocked out by the city council last
year.
Superintendent Ballard of Los An
geles has been in the city comforting
with District Agent Mulligan and de-
clares that the municipal plant is los
ing money and predicts that the citi-
Zens will finally Conclude the reason
able thing is for the city to light its
own streets and secure reasonable
rates for commercial lighting by agree
rnent for term of years and not COM
pete for the purely commercial busi-
ness"
NEW SOLICITORS
District Manager Mullgan declares
that the Edison company is still do
ing business" and that it has not put
on any new solicitors, but city officials
have been advised that the company
has transferred a corps of silver
tongued solicitors from Los Angeles to
counteract the work of the city's vol
unteers.
Local Edison employees will attend
the outing of the Southern California