The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-06
Announcement of Scale of Prices Carries Promise to Reduce Cost to Smaller Consumers As Soon As Business Shows Expected Increase.
MINIMUM RATE OF 60 , CENTS TO BIG USERS
Domestic Consumers Con- tinue to Pay Present Rate Unless Their Consumption at Present Rates Entails Expense of More Than $10 Per Month.

The Bridgeport Gas Light company announces reduction in the price, of gas which will not, however, in any. of domestic consumers, to whom the price of gas will remain ST. which is Ten to g cents higher than the price to domestic consumers In most of the cities of Connecticut and Massachu- setts of the size of Bridgeport
 The company offers a sliding scale. which gives no reduction to the per sen using less than $1O month and only five cents reduction on a. thou sand to persons using as much as $15 worth of gas. per month.
 In making it's announcement the company does say, however, that it hopes later to reduce the price to do- mestic consumers to 90 cents per thou sand, by reason of the increased sales which will result. or which it expects to result. from the reduced wholesale rate. To a consumer whose bill is over $500 a month a rate of 60 cents Is made
 The price Of gas in Bridgeport was recently the subject Of litigation be- fore the Public Utilities commission, which did not reduce the rate, but pamy wazran te the conclusion that the rate would so6sf have to be re- duced.
 The company anz leunceraent fol-- lows ITO THE CONSUMERS or THE
 BRdDCEePORT GAS LIGHT CO:
 The Bridgeport Gas Light company is to establish on January list, 1915, a schedule Of rates based on what is considered the most modern gas prac- tice which is absolutely fair and equitapls both to all consumers and the owners Of the company.
 It will be readily seen that while the naapufaetuEdng cost may be near 1y uniform for all gas made, the cost of d7strfbution and selling will not vary in exactly the same proportion as the quantity furnished. For ex- ample it costs the coanpany as much sstcz read the meter a1ad-do fine clerical 2 yorz< for the eorlsIrneg using one hun dred cubic feet per .n16nEh as for fhe AonR usins one th6nsa1ld times as natch. To sell ..fty thousand cubic feet ta tWentyshye eustomers using 2,00o cubic feet each requires 25 me- ters 9 street connectfens, g monthly 1cad work necessary to keep the ae- counts and make the collections To sen 5O,O0O ol1bic feet to a single con sumner, only one connection, one meter, :. one reading and one account is re- fquired As these items are important factors In che total cost Of serving ethe consumer, the company in adopt ling thiss schedule. Is taking account of the decreased proportional cost Of sell ling various quantities to the single Gonsunaer The larger the amounts iased, the less pwoportionally. is this Ecost 70 the company. and the price Charged the consumer should be gov lerned accordfag1y.
 St win be noticed that the schedule is worked out on cumulative basis hso fhaf each consumer pays the same amount for the same quantity of gas Iand the steps in the schedule are fair Iy within the reach Of the moderate l5Isar.
 .-T41e maximum net price to the fsma11est user will be one one dollar 6eD per thousand cubic feet, as at spresent By net price is meant the lprfce If bin is paid by the 10th of the f1nonfh, the gas being billed at $f1O Iper thousand cubic feet, less a dis count of 10 cents per thousand, for Ipron1pt payment. In addition to this discount, further discounts will be aI- flowed for quantities used through a E5ing4e meter in excess of ten thousand I4l9.o0o3 cubic feet per month as fol- lows.