Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-26
PASADENA TO VOTE
WATER BONDS TODAY
MAYOR AND LIGHTING MAN
AGER EXCHANGE WORDS
Pasadena's Chief Executive Refuses
to Make Advance Report and
Denies Charge That Other
interests Are Involved

PASADENA, Jan. 25.--Watts and
water got mixed up this afternoon,
when both sides practically closed the
campaign of water education, leaving
the balance of the work to be directed
toward getting the voters to go to the
polls Wednesday. The watts came in
because District Manager E. H. Multi
gan of the Southern California Edison
company openly charged that the cir
cular sent out during the water cam
paign by the municipal electric light
plant looks to him like the first gun
of a campaign for more electric light
bonds
In discussing this phase of the mat
ter this evening Mayor Farley said that
there is absolutely no thought or need
of another bond issue for the electric
Farley, Manager Mulligan seems to
know all about it and you might ask
him.
Mulligan also charges that the mu-
nicipal plant is not paying; that is,
not making enough to retire its bonds
and pay for depreciation, and that the
productive powers of the plant are less
than they were, basing his statements
on recent reports and the electric light
circular sent to voters. Manager
Koiner of the municipal light plant is
out of the city tonight, but is expected
to make q warm retort upon his return.
The three most important develop
ments in the water bond fight today
came about through a letter received
by Mayor Farley from City Attorney
Hewitt of Los Angeles, the mayors
own reply to Kernaghans charge of
bad faith, and statement from Engi-
neer Scattergood advising the people
to vote the water bonds, because he
regards the plants as being sold at
bargain price. City Attorney Hewitt
states that Pasadena could not hope
to get a share of owens river water
without a distributing system of her
own. The water side makes this
it's strongest argument in closing the
campaign, claiming this is a clincher
for voting bonds for the already in
stalled distributing system rather than
put down another system to tear up
all the streets.
In rather long letter in answer to
George r. Kernaghan, Mayor Farley
says that he is mayor and does not pro-
pose to have Kernaghan dictate to him;
that he (Earley) was not obligated in
the least to show Kernaghan the water
report in advance of its presentation to
the council; that Kernaghan favors
buying Owens river water over buying
the local plants, while a majority of
the citizens favor first purchasing the
local plants, and that he the mayor
had at first intended to ignore .Kerna-
CHAN, but had finally listened to the
requests of friends to make formal
answer.
In discussing the letter this evening
Kernaghan said that he would make
no further reply, resting content with
his first letter and letting the people
choose between his first and only letter
and the mayors reply. He also stated
that he thinks the affair has gone far
enough and that he does not favor the
saying of harsh things in the heat of
campaign.
Both sides are claiming the election
of tomorrow and both sides will have
workers at each one of the seventeen
polling places. 1t will take a two-thirds
majority to carry the bonds and it is
expected that 1000 votes will be polled.