Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
NO RESULT FROM GAS HEARING
CShtsSEis Again Refereed to the City
Council.
CROWLEY SAYS BILL IS TOO HIGH
shows where cut Of at Least Hundred
Thousand Dollars should lie Made
company wOuId stand
on OLD ContrRSt. -....-

That there is little chance for the Omaha
Gas company and the city TO get together
and compromise the bin. OF t272OOo which
the gas, company asks for lighting. the
streets. for a period Of practically five
years. developed Saturday morning at the
conference held In the offices OF Assistant
City Attorney l. j. Dunn.
The bill rendered by the gas company
asks the city TO pay at the rate Of SIS 20
per lamp per year. With interest the
amount totals in the neighborhood Of S272,
COO. Gas Commissioned c. f, Crowley made
a report to the conference. estimating that
the city should pay S24 a lamp per year as
a maximum and $40 lamp per year as a
minimum. The difference between. the gas
commissioners estimate and the bill rem
dered by the comrany-tN TO SIS per lamp
Is so large that there is practically no
chance for a compromise,
After futile attempts between the warning
factions to get together It was decided to
present the gas company's bill to the com
mittee OF the whole OF the city council
Monday afternoon.
The conference was attended by Council
men Sheldon and BerkR, Assistant City
/ Attorney l. J. Dunn, Gas Commissioner
/ Dr. c. F. Crowley, Frank Hamilton, prosi
/ dent OF the Omaha Gas company; G. w
| Clabaugh. vice president Of the gas com
pany:. J. A. Perry, superintendent Of the
| gas company, and Attorneys w. J. Connel
and william Herdman, counsel for the ga
company.
go Hangs On Two Paints.
Contention on the gas company's bill
hangs on two points. The statement sub
mitted to the city asks that the lighting b.
paid for on a basis Of the consumption o
five cubic feet of gas per hour, whicl
means 5000 cubic feet year. At the rat
of S125 a thousand this item totals S26
year. In addition, a maintenance charge o
S7.2O per lamp is asked and a royalty Of
a lamp on each one in use, which bring
,the total to $500 tt
,- On one point the city officials and ga
representatives agree, and that is the main
tenance item. ,DH. Crowley does not con
test this charge, but he cuts large slices of
the amount for gas and the royalty items.
DR.. Crowley suggests that the city pa
the gas company 81 a year for the use o
each light and allow the $40 maintenance
the latter item to include all cost OF up
keep. .. .l
But he cannot see the payment OF the :
royalty nor the compgny's estimate of fiv
cubic feet per hour. As q maximum DI
Crowley estimates that four cubic fee
I would be a generous allotment and tina
three might be about right He also cut
the SL2 asked thousand cubic feet to 81
That the gas company has little hope
OF settling on a basis of $3.50 is certain
O. w. Ciabaugh, Vice president of the ga
company stated after the. conference. tina
1.-The company would be willing to aocep
S3srs lamp, which was. the amount of tn
contract eprioe five years ago. This. con
tract was afterward declared invalid an,
for, five years the company has been fur
plshing gas lighting to the city without
contract r.va5t rss ...vt.