The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-02-10
tITY WOULDN'T GIVE
FRANCHISE REQUESTED
&FOWER COMPANY WOULDN'T
3 TAKE WHAT CITY OFFERED.
City Wanted Maximum Rate Fixed,
: and on This Rock Franchise
- Went to Pieces


Splitting on the rock Of a maximum
rate. the franchise submitted and re-
quested by the Southern Power COM
pany was dashed to pieces at meet
of city council on Tuesday night
aich lasted for more than three hours
City: council wanted tine Power com
pany with the restrictions which
council decided should be placed in
the franchise before it was granted.
When told this by Mayor Langford,
MIR. Taylor, representing the COM
.,ss=y ~ used the following bit of poetry,
Ech will no doubt be found some
Here in the classics possibly in
omer or Virgil or Dante or Milton,
maybe in Shakespeare:
Eother, may I go out to. swim?
Yes, my darling daughter;
Hang your clothes on hickory limb,
But don't go near the water"
RTne Power company asked a fran
Use for sixty years, and suggested
the franchise which it submitted
lat it be prohibited from furnishing
bower in less quantities than one hum
Sred horsepower, in order to elianln-
competition with the city lighting
pts. Council decided that it would
uire "a maximum rate, to be agreed
IN by council and the representa-
es of THE Power company; that it
suld require that all plants or sta
ks--sor the distribution of power
Sfthin the limits of the town of New
perry be placed within the city limits,
Ind that it would prohibit the sale of
Ewer to any individual or corporation
cAe purpose of resale and distrl-
bn so long as the city plant IS IN
jon blythe city.
Banouo's Ghost.
liking through the meeting of
neil was a, ghost, which, like the
eous one of Banquo's, would not
Er, il the shape of franchise,
s >ch has never been utilized, grant
ld 70 Henry L. Parr and Frank R.
Hunter, last year, under which the
rr9n+ees are given almost unlimited
privileges in the matter of running
tresat cars, furnishing light and heat
=. the form of gas or electricity, etc.
md wessrs. Parr and Sigh have more
han two years yet to comply with the
ferms of the franchise, that work
lhall be begun in good faith" 1t was
bed that even if council could pro-
il ths. redistribution Of power by
ase buying it in one-hundred horse
yer from the Southern Power COM
" and selling to others, by retns-
to grant franchise to those de-
ng to buy the power and retail It,
it would have no control over
hrs. Parr and Hunter in this par
or over those to whom
Psrr and Hunter might sell,
b1ncil wanted to throw blank
= protection around the shiverlng
of the city's lighting plant rates,
though council had already de
b upon a maximum rate. Alder
Farhardt took a consistent posi-
IN this matter, urging that,
ce council had decided ii favor of
maximum? rate requirement, tH2t
Mthe gates should be thrown open,
+ae fra1,c:.:ea give the right to sell
Wes in any quantity.
: Wouldn't Accept Maximum Rate.
y seemed that council and the rep
zentatjves of the company might
togather on tha location O; the
tions and the matter of sale for re-
4 bution-Nr. Taylor saying that
company would agree to locate its
tons within the city limits, and
build consent to the resale and dis
Hbution proviso ir the franchise, but
hcompany, through its representa-
h6aid that it would not be will
disturb the equilibrium of a
en- which it had taken years Of
kiv and work and millions Of money
oc~fpct in order to make an eXcep-