Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-02-16
GAS COMPANY MAKES
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENT

The Amarillo Gas Company has
this week finished laying gas mains
on Jackson and Monroe streets, hav-
ing been engaged In this work over
the city during the whole winter.
WIN the coming OF the warm and
spring and summer weather the Gas
company will have adjacent to It's
mains. or will have extended its
mains TO such extent tnat some 1900
additional families may enjoy the
advantages OF gas for cooking and
Illuminating, families that have not
heretofore been in the gas district"
and many of whom have been desir-
Gus OF having this benefit
Having quite fully covered the
city with mains now. the company
Will this year make more earnest eff
forts than ever TO explain to those
not familiar with Il. the manifest
savings of household labor and
drudgery and of expense secured by
the use OF gas in cooking. and the
great safeguard TO the soundness OF
human eyes assured and made GER
tain by the use OF gas as a home illu-
minant. in preference 10 any other
illuminant whatever. Resides its
feature Of being superior, gas has no
rival in Responsiveness for lighting
uses Gas light is free from glare
and from eye-strain talnts and is
free from the ultra violet rays so
common In other illumnants The
high school boys and girls know this.
when they have advanced 10 the
study Of physics and chemistry When
the matter is studied, parents guard
their children from such exposures.
! Eye-strain troubles are cut down
where gas reading lamps are used.
The Gas Company has Installed in
front OF its office on Taylor street.
i00-candle power gas are lamp, ana
the public are respectfully invited
TO view the same and to compare II
with any other lamp or lamps to be
seen on Amarillo's streets.
The Gas Company has this week
also connected mp with gas a very or
namental and practical Buckeye In
lcuhator which Is located In the show
window of Mr.. j. ID Bartlett, at Geo
Polk street. 1t will be more than
worth the while for all the people OF
! Amarillo TO observe the progress OF
The Matching process OF fine brood
OF fine chicks by means Of gas, and
a view OF the incubator may be had
from either inside or outside the
store, by day or night
The much talked Of high cost of
living is something that the Gas
Company Is really helping the people
OF the community 20 combat. despite
the fact that some person or persons
have been saying orally motive not
disclosed) that gas is dear in Amaril-
10 Il Is not so easy 70 locate as
sertions made just orally The Gas
Company says out loud, and in print,
that being the best and most straight
forward way. that Fas rs relatively
cheap in Amarillo and that as com
pared with II, electricity and water
are dear. On this more definite in
formation will be- furnished The
/ Gas Company has never for a single
Iday OF its history assumed the
public be damned policy or attitude
/ In its relations to the public, Cpos-
sibly being restrained therefrom by
"timidity." as might be- inferred t2l
from this article but on the other
hand. II has constantly sought to give
a square deal. and demanded the
same. and when the Gas Company
/ contracted with the city 20 furnish
75-candle power street lights. il fur
nished such lights and collected
monthly after service duly rendered;
but the electric company compels the
good citizens OF Amallo 10 pay a
quarter o. year 10 advance. as
though a municipality ath 10000
600 OF wealth (to as nothing Of be-
ing sensitive as .U meeting 4ts debts
and obligations were NOT good toi
IFS bills. Along about the first OF
January this year -bo Electric Com
pany collected from che city OF Am
arillo the sum OF S-.a'25 for cleo
Itric and water service 20 The city FOR
the months Of January February and
March. Does any city officer draw
his salary one quarter OF year cor
month in advance. or any other
Individual or Institution exact from
the city payment '.r quarter In
advance? Let tha school children
figure out what tis interest amounts
TO on S223125 for quarter OF a
year at the local interest rates Most
Of them can learn The local rates
rom their 'ax-pay.u- parents
Oh. you Wanted Public spirit
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