The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-04-11
WATER BOARD GIVES
FURTHER INFORMATION
More Arguments Presented in Favor of Pat
ronizing City Water and
Light Plants.

light plant, the minimum on cleo
trio lights for domestic purposes in
Marietta, was lie. This Board felt
that a just and reasonable rate
would be lee, and we so advertised.
The Kennesaw Paper Company has
tried to cut rates on water, and
have lost practically all of their
consumers for domestic purposes,
because of"the' quality if nothing
else They have even cut rates on
lights, but the city plant is on a
good paying basis and the service by
the city has been superior both in
street lighting and for domestic
purposes.
The Kennesaw Paper Company
prior to the erection of the city
plant, charged the city $4O5, per
monh for less than 100 lights. The
city plant is furnishing over zoe
lights besides the white way on the
public square, for $500, per month,
and giving much better service.
The facts show list that the mum
icipal plant has given much better
service and much better quality of
water than was given by the Ken
nesaw Paper Company when it had
a monopoly, and that without any
increased cost to the city or the
consumers.
,. That the municipal lighting
system furnishes more than twice as
many street lights and at a greatly
reduced cost; and much better ser
vice and domestic service in the
homes of the citizens at reduced
cost and better service than was
given by the Kennesaw Paper Com
pany
Both city plants are on a paying
basis and will continue to grow if
the citizens continue to patronize
the plants which they own them
selves. The effort of the Kennesaw
Paper Company to cut rates on
lights in the city of Marietta, is
plain cut-throat business. The
kennesaw Paper Company was Of
fered more for is mains and system
exclusive of source and supply, in
the city of Marietta, than it cost
them to build it, or than it would
have cost to duplicate it new, al
houGh these pipes had been in the
ground for over fourteen years.
They refused to take the money. The
kennesaw Paper Company was Of
fered in cold cash, as much for their
pole line in the city of Marietta, as
it cost the Board of Water and
Lights to build the entire pole line
and city lighting system, every
thing new and first class. This in
face of the fact that the pole lines
and fixtures of the Kennesaw Pap
er Company were in such a shape
of deterioration that their original
value was reduced more than 30 per
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were unsafe and are now unsafe and
a menace to life and property.
The Kennesaw Paper Company
was treated fairly, but the owners
of this company evidently felt that
they had the vested rights of kings
and could make free-born citizens
and voters of Marietta bow their
knee to this foreign corporation
that had been bleeding them for
years, and rendering insufficient ser
vice.
Now here are a few plain facts, to
which we respectfully invite atten- |
ton Of every citizen Of Marietta.
The Board Of Waterworks and ,
Lights of the city of Marietta does
not intend to cut rates on either
water or lights. The present rates /
are as low as is consistent with prop !
er business methods. We are fur I
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