Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-04
PRESENT RATES ARE RE-ESTAB'
LISHED FOR LIGHT AND GAS
By NEW ENACTMENT.
NOTICE OF NEW RATES
COMING CAUSES ACTION
City Notified by Iowa Railway and
Light Company That It Intended to
Put Higher Rates in Effect by May
Utilities Company Probably Will
Take Action to Enjoin City.

Notified that the Iowa Railway and
effect new and advanced rates for cleo
trio light and gas by May /, the city
council at a called meeting Wednes-
day afternoon, passed ordinances re.
establishing the present rates for gas
and electric current for lights. and
added a penalty to each for violation.
The ordinances are copies of the rate
clauses Of the original ordinances, the
tive-year periods during which those
rates were effective having expired
Sept. /, 1917 and Jan. l. 1918.
The ordinance becomes effective ten
days from passage. which will be April
IA. The city now expects that the
public utilities company will so into
court in an effort to have the city en-
joined from enforcing the ordinances.
If that step is taken, as it probably
will be it will be the first move in what
probably will be lively legal contest
over the rates for service. The penalty
clause added to the ordinances pro-
vides for a fine of 800 for violation.
The electric power ordinance rates
run for twenty five years from the
date of the original ordinance, and are
not affected by the present contro-
versy.
Summary Of Ordinances.
The new gas ordinance fixes the
rates at 81 per 1000 cubic feet, with
the proviso that an additional 10 cents
per 1000 cubic feet may be charged
customers who do not pay their bills
within ten days after presentation.
The electric ordinance for residences
fixes II cents per kilowatt hour per
fifty watt lamp for the first one half
kilowatt hour per month per lamp, and
I cents per each kilowatt hour per
month in excess of one-half kilowatt
hour and up to one, and one-half kilo-
watt hours per month per lamp and >
cents per kilowatt hour for all con-
sumption in excess of one and one-h
kilowatt hours per month per lamp.
A discount Of 10 per cent for payment
within ten days Of the date of render
ing the bill is provided for.
The rate for commercial lighting Is
the same with the exception that the
- cents rate runs up to one kilowatt,
ana Tue 1 cent IdtS Al OilC " eAIA y"
kilowatts and the cent rate for all
consumption in excess Of three kilo-
watts per lamp per month. A discount
of 10 per cent is provided for prompt
payment, and for installation in excess
OF twenty FIVE lamps and consumption
in excess of four kilowatts per month
per lamp an additional 20 per cent
discount is fixed.
Questions are Not Answered..
A list of questions prepared for the
city and submitted to the Iowa Rail-
way and Light Company at Cedar
Rapids weer not answered. These
questions had to do with the
price paid for the local plant, the price
at which it was turned into the Iowa
Railway and Light Company, and 9TH
er interrogations bearing on the ques-
ton of the amount Of the investment
in the local property. Vice President
John A. Reed replied that the city
could ascertain the answers to these
questions by an engineers appraisal OF
the property. The city was then mott
fed that the company would put new
rates into effect with the issuance OF
the bills for the April accounts. To
forestall this move the city council at
once passed the ordinances e-estab-
fishing the old rates.