Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-01
Bar Harbor Light Complaint

Bar HarbOr Light Complaint
| The customary notice according to law
has been served on the Bar Harbor and
Union River Power Co., informing tina,
corporation that a complaint has been
| filed with the Public Utilities Commission
| by j. L. Ketterlinus of Philadelphia and
others that the charge for electric lights
by the company in the town Of Eden is
unjust. unreasonable and unjustly dis
| criminatory." The complaint is as fol-
| lows:
That the rates for electric lights pro-
duced, transmitted, delivered and fur
nished to the patrons of said company
and the charges of said service In the
said town OF Eden are unjust, and un-
reasonable and unjustly discrimina tory,
They are unjust and unreasonable be-
cause the minimum rate for electric lights
charged and collected by said public utili-
ty is 10 cents per kilowatt hour, less 10
per cent, and that they are unjustly dis
crlminatory in that the sum charged and
collected for electric lights for lighting
purposes by said public utility of a part
of the users is II cents per kilowatt
hour, less 10 per cent, and a part of
said users of electric lights for lighting
purposes the sum charged and collected
by said public utility is % cents per kiio-
watt hour.
That the rates, tolls, charges and
schedules of said public utilities for light
ing purposes are unreasonable and I'M
vice is inadequate.
That he Do
Power Company charges for electric
lights furnished to its customers. in said
Eden, at the following rates:
Yearly Lighting.
(a) For electric lights furnished in any
quantity UP to and including Is kilowatts
per month, Is cents per kilowatt hour.
CD For electric lights furnished in
quantities from % kilowatt hours to so
kilowatt hours inclusive, per month, 10
per cent discount.
Co For electric lights furnished in guam
titles from so kilowatt hours to rs kilo-
watt hours inclusive, per month, Is per
cent. discount.
(dD For electric lights furnished in guam
titles from rs kilowatt hours upward, per
month, 20 per cent discount.
Summer Lighting.
(e) For electric lights furnished in any
quantity up and including 1893 kilowatt
hours per month, % cents per kilowatt
hour.
CD For electric light furnished in guam
titles from 400 kilowatt hours upward, per
month, Is per cent discount
Subject to discount of five per cent
for payment within a certain period
All of which rates, and charges your
compliments say are unreasonable and
unjustly discriminatory as between the
yearly lighting rates and that they are
unreasonable and unjust taking into due
consideration the fair value of all the
property of the respondent company and
are therefore unlawful
That the compliments say that a fair
value of the respondent company's prop
erty is not in excess of 81. 3O0, 600; that its
revenue. after deducting all operating ex-
penses and other expenses, including de-
precautions, taxes, etc, and interest on
the bonded Indebtedness, is sS9615o, at
the close of the year ending June So 1915; |
that at the beginning of the said year it |
had balance of $45,257.33 as accumulat-
ed income. |
And your compliments believe and have |
iedSoH W DeileVe tndl SAID company is |
paying six per cent. interest on $500, 600
worth Of preferred stock. to the holders
of said stock, or $1S00O that said 5000, 900 |
worth of stock is not represented by any
property value, and if so represented, is
represented by much smaller property
value than the par value Of said stock.
The complaint is signed by j. L. ket-
terlinus, Edgar Scott, Clement B. Muv-
bold. Marsargie Wright and Edward De-
Nerrell. all of Philadelphia, A. D. Addi-
son Of Washington, D. c. John C. Living
ston and Edith G. Bowdoin of New York,
L. Hall Mccormick of Chicago. Frank
Ellis of Cleveland. Ohio, and j. p Bass
Of Bangor, and the following residents of
Bar Harbor:
b. w. Marshall. confectionery; Fred A.
Gonya. druggist; r. g. Higgins, physi-
clan; J. Franklin Anthony. c2retaker; c.
A. keucher. druggist; H. S. Mason, Cloth
er; Fl. c. Bradley, photographer; E. w.
Douglass, baker: James w. Silk, plumber;
). A. Sproul, grocer; H. l.. Gordon. drug
5ist; W F. Perlinsky, dry goods dealer;
J. H. Sawyer, jeweler; George NJ
public carriage owner; Jordan g.
Roland, grocer; Arno W. Cleaves, stable
keeper; Percy Kelley. grocer; S. ].
Clement, merchant; II. p. Higgins, dem
list: E, A. Clark, attorney