Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-12
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ice was rendered the City at 8:15
Friday morning Jan. 18th, 1924.
Leaving the City without lights or
power for ten hours.
81 asked Mr.. Ewing Local Mana
ger of the Lighting Company why
he did not start the steam plant and
supply the City from this source,
and he replied that he did not deem
it necessary. j asked permission
from him to make thorough ex-
animation of the plant here as to
its ability to be brought into the
service on short notice, and the re-
quest was readily granted. This in
vestigation revealed that two of the
three boilers are temporarily out of
order as the result of water freez-
ing in them Tie third boiler No. /
as designated by the Light Com
pany appeared to be in good condi-
ton, but as it was impossible to de-
eide if this plant could be operated
at short notice l requested Mr.. Ew-
ing to fire up this boiler and carry
the load with it for a period of ten
minutes. This he refused to do
During the month of September
1928 we had a large number of in
terruptions of service and Mr.. L. L.
Ferree the Manager of the head Of
flee at Albany stated that this plant
would be kept in condition to fire
up at once and that the Company
would not allow service to be dis.
continued for over two hours. This
has not been complied with"
Among other things brought out
during the discussion of the diff
culties experienced because of inter
rupted hydro-electric service, it was
brought out that upon one occa-
sion a connection steam pipe had
been installed between the boilers
of the municipal water plant and the
turbines Of the electric generators,
and that this pipe still remains in
position. Steam could be furnished
nection after approximately 80 min
utes work necessary in the removal
of certain distractions placed there
in, Engineer Wheatley informed
council upon specific request, anu
one or more of the aldermen sug
gested that the lighting company
might desire to arrange a standby
service with the city such as was
furnished the city plant by the light
ing company.
Il was not desired, however, tt
take on this added boiler load at
the water plant, the chief purpose
being to have adequate and unin-
telrupted service guaranteed Amer
icus light and power consumers. Il
was stated by more than one alder
man during the discussions that
some arrangement might be reached
whereby the Lighting company would |
light fires under the boilers in the
steam plant here whenever the by
dro-electric power fails for any rea
son over specified time and in this |
connection, it was aggesAsaa =; Cor
dele light and power conSV iers BIZ |
invited to cooperate with Amerirus
in bringing about solution of tht
existing difficulty.
Finally, it was agreed to refer
the entire matter to the Lighting i
committee, of which Alderman j.
w. Harris is chairman, the Other
members being j. w. Hightower and
w. E. Mitchell. This committee,
with City Attorney w. T. Lane add
ed was instructed to secure state
ments from individuals and indus
tries where inconvenience had been
caused or loss sustained because of
interrupted power or lighting serv-
ice, and to ask all citizens to aid
in getting such. statements. These
statements when consolidated, are
to be presented before the Railroad
commission of Georgia in connec-
ton with petition asking relief
from existing conditions here and
in Cordele. City Engineer Wheat
ley was also instructed to cooperate
with this committee and to keep
careful check upon every Interrupt
ton in power or lighting servic>
through the installation of automa
tic mechanical devices in his office
that will register even momentary
Interruptions in the flow of cur
rent and to furnish council with
complete itemized reports of sucl
Interruptions each month.