The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-10-11
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Foster Makes Reply.

for street lighting expired and an
other portion of these contracts dc
not expire until 1917, and it was
deemed advisable by the city com
missioners to enter into a new con
tract with the Ardmore Ice, Light
& Power company for lighting their
streets by which they would get
better results for less money, owing
to new developments in electric light
ing.
The writer was sent for and went
over these matters with the city
commissioners and made a PROPOSE
! ton for lighting the streets of Ard
more in a different manner (Which
could not be foreseen fourteen years
ago. and after going thoroughly into
the matter, the city commissioners
entered into a contract with the
Ardmore Ice, Light & Power COM
pany on the 29th day of September
1914, which contract has been pub
lished in the daily paper of this city
for several days, and should be ia
miliar to the people and which
contract before it becomes active
must be ratified by vote of the peo-
pie and election, for which purpose
has been called to be hel on Tues
day, the 18th day of October, 1914.
During the consideration of this
new proposed contract the CONNER
cial club appointed a committee to
investigate the comparative rates Paid
elsewhere for like service which COM
mittee Ito the best information Of
the writer was to confer with :he
city commissioners and perhaps The
manager of the Ardmore Ice, Light
& Power company, to ascertain the
best and cheapest method for light
ing the streets of Ardmore.
The manager of the Ardmore Ice,
Light & Power company during the
past five weeks, has been asked num-
erous times to attend meetings of the
city commissioners being informed
that the committee of the Commercial
club would be present to 90 over
these matters and at each time re-
quested, the manager was present
and at no time met or conversed
with any of the members appointed
by the commercial club, and on
September 30 the mayor with the
authority of the city commissioners,
entered into the street lighting con-
tract which has been published for
some days past in The Daily Ard
moreite.
1t was not our intention to enter
into-in fact, it was our intention
not to take part in any contro-
versy that might arise over this street
lighting contract, but today (Satur-
day, October 100, we have been
shown a copy of the report which
the committee appointed by the
Commercial club will publish in this
Sunday mornings paper, and in JUS
tice to ourselves and, we feel in
justice to the taxpayers of Ardmore,
that further conditions should have
been considered in this report from
the Commercial club, as the report
published by the committee is mis-
leading. Their report which may be
seen elsewhere in this paper, shows
that El Reno paid $50 per month
for arc lamps, but it does not
show that these arc lamps are oper-
ated on a moonlight schedule, which
means Onefourth of the time each
month the lights may be turned out
And Temple, Texas, pays $6.45 per
month with fuel at $3.50 per ton;
against fuel at Ardmore at S2.27R
per ton. Hugo Is tabulated at $495I
per month for arc lamps in the re-
port of the committee, when in fact
Hugo is paying $6.95, as the writer
is interested in the Hugo plant and
has absolute knowledge of the Hugo
contract and in addition thereto
the writer called the manager Sat
urday morning, oct. 10, 1914, who
also corroborated this statement;
Cleburne, Texas. also has a moon
light schedule with fuel oil at S1.05
per barrel; Lawton, Oklahoma, also
has a moonlight schedule. McAles- |
ter paying 1925 per ton for the
same quality of fuel coal as Ardmore
must pay s2.271a per ton; Ada, Ok
lahoma, Paris, Texas, and Sapulpa, |
Oklahoma, might have been men,
toned as operating on a moonlight
schedule, with Sapulpa gas not to
exceed 1Oc; Chickasha, Oklahoma is
largely operated by water power,
which of course makes almost no
luel bill.
This committee failed to mention
Shawnee, Oklahoma, with 500 arc
lights on moonlight schedule; Guthrie
arc at $500 with twice as large a
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