The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-08-14
How Long Brntus, How
Long?

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: Long?
Must High Point Be Compelled to Sub
! init Longer to Such a Lighting Ser
vice---Gets WOrse---Time 10 d
! Something.
Two weeks ago The Review hae
occasion to call attention to the poor
light service being handled out" by
the N. C. Public Service Co., distri-
butors here of the juice of the
Southern Power Co. Mayor Tate
also took the matter up with the
company but if any relief has been
promised, Git certainly hasn't been
demonstrated, } we are not aware of
lit, The lights at times work exactly
like the rear end of a lightning bug.
which flashes forth light intermit-
tently or about as fast as it breathes,
bat the lightning bug keeps up the
same sharp light all the time where
as the electric lights here shine forth
in various degrees of "brilliancy."
Sometimes you can barely see red
spot in the globes, at another time
about one third the voltage is mani
fest and at other times the average
is about reached, a big contrast to
the service given the first year this
company dealt out light juice" to
this progressive city. Three times
the past ten days have we been in a
moving picture show and the cur
rent was so low that it would hardly
pull the music box, much less the
strong light to show up the pictures,
and at times went completely out.
Said the proprietor we are getting
just about one-fourth the current
we need and have reason to expect;
1t looks like we could recover for
the damage sustained in loss of
patronage and will be compelled to
seek relief" Sunday night while
the ministers were preaching in the
various churches of the city the
lights began to flicker and finally
went out leaving the CONGREGATION
in darkness. These are only a few
Of the annoying incidents concern
ing the incandescent system. The
arc light system is also badly off, |
going out almost at will, and many
of the lights flicker and give poor
service great deal of the time
The time has come for action, if
the N: c. Public Service Company
is not going to furnish us the service
we are entitled to, then it is up to
the city to revoke their franchise or
lake over the arc light system and
proceed to own and operate the
electric lights of High Point, both
and arc lights. 1t will
cost something to get the equipment
out 1t will bea good investment.
4 the N. c. Public Service Co. can
make money, (and they are not out
or their healthy on the arc lights,
Why can't the city do so? This cues.
ion cannot be successfully answer
"a. The whole truth of the matter
S that High Point played thunder
"neD she ever consented to sell the
arc light system to the Public Ser.
'lce 20. and depended on this COM
)any for service for the incandes-
'ent system, and to cap the climax
allowed the company to put gas in
he stores and houses in direct COM
petition to the electric lights, the
'nly source of revenue the city has
o pay for the arc light system.
We have said so before and we
tick to it, that~High Point is gradu
lily being drawn into the spiders
web and before long will wake up to {
ne fact that both of her feet are so
ntangled in the meshes that there {
$ practically no escape.
we are aware of the fact that 9
ONE people will not look at it in
his light just now but the time will
ONE just as sure as the sun rises
nd sets. ~~. ~-.-..- .~..:.5,
High Point is now engaged int
gl1tlng monopoly as far as she-is I
oncerned, in fact the whole State. !
aroused, and it is only another +
ase IN point where the hooks" Q
ave been applied but she had r
etter look closer 10 home also and [
&c that our progressive city Is rot q
unnecessarily in its for. i
lard march.
We welcome legitimate enter |
rises, glad to have them, but this =
oeS not mean that we mi st turn
yer the keys, unfdsten the safety b
alves and run our good ship upon v
he rocks. Corporations are out for G
loney and they would not invest al
1elr money without they saw a W
BOD thing and thew are benefttedl