Arizona republican., 1912-12-23

 FORM SUPERIOR
For Government of Cities Says Mayor Vincent of Hutchinson, Kansas, Who Is Interested In This City.

The struggle in Phoenix for d com mission form of government for tn" city is attracting the attention of cities of similar size all over the country. Mayor Flank Vincent of Hutchinson, Kansas. city that has commission form of government, is among those interested in Phoenix as the following letter to Mayor 1 Christy of this city well shows. There are however other things in the let 1 ter that are of interest to Phoenic- l ians aside from the commission i form
 Mayor Vincent is consistent read 1 CT of The Republican and pays es- l pecial attention to the city ordinances l knowing what are the needs of a
 growing city in the way of legisla-
 ton
 Hutchinson, Kans., Dec IT, 1912 1 Hon. Lloyd B. Christy,
 Phoenix, Arizona
 Dear Mr. Christy-I thank you
 for your favor of Dec 12th. enclos-
 ing financial statement of your bank,
 to the comptroller on the 2Gth Of November. I want to congratulate you on the fine statement that you
 make
 T take the Phoenix, Aiizona Re publican, and have been very much interested in reading the progress
 you have been making on your com
 mission form Of government. I was
 sorry to see certain law questions
 raised that might prohibit you from
 adopting the commission form, but | that your people had already adopt
 cd it.
 T have held the office of mayor | both undo the council form and
 commission form and in my judg- | ment there is no comparison between the two; the commission form is so 1 far ahead of the council form.
 am also interested in reading the or 1 chances that you have passed from time to time and l beg to say that | they are quite similar to the ordi l nances we have covering the same propositions. 1 think the most ag- | gravating matter that has come up 1 before me the past two years, has been to get ordinances passed prWo- l perly regulating electric wiring and
 other fire precautions. l think per l haps Hutchinson uses more electric l lights, or as much as any city of its size in the United States. We 1 have very cheap rate which is supplied by the Electric Light com i pany of this city We pay only 5c 1 9 Kflowatt for domestic lighting and
 as low as 3c for commercial use or l illuminated advertisements We pay
 $I5 per year on a flat rate for our
 arc lights. We are now preparing
 to put in what is known as the
 White Way" The Electric Light | company of this city have made us
 the following proposition on the pro | posed White Way" It will extend
 nine blocks on Main street
 They will put in five ornamental 1 posts per block on each side of the 1 street, making ten posts to the block | they will install thereon five Tung 1 sten lamps one of which will be 100 ] watt which is to burn all night; the i other four will be 60 watt and will | burn until midnight. They to fur nish everything necessary and install l the system and to maintain same | hereafter and the cost to the city will be $40 per post per annum or | s400 per block It will cost them
 some S15,0OO to put in the system. 1 We consider that they have made us
 q very liberal proposition
 T simply mention these matters
 thinking perhaps it might be of in- terest to you, should similar mat
 ters ever come up in your city,
 Tt might serve to give you some
 idea of what other cities are charg- l ed.
 With kind regards, l am. Very l Truly Yours,
 1 FRANK VINCENT