Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 July 1899 — Page 4

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Friday, July 7, 1899.

SHOULD CITY 111 V KLKCTKIC 1'I.ANT? The Independent, always in the lead, has given the people the benefit of its usual sagacity in discussing city affairs and it has with its usual courage taken up the question of municipal ownership of the electric light plant, now of such great interest, and given it fair and full consideration. The editorial printed in our columns yesterday has attracted wide attention among our citizens and has served to bring out many expressions as to the desirability and feasibility of the city doing its own public and commercial lighting. The general view is as we stated yesterday that if the city can acquire the present plant at a sufficiently low figure and can then operate it so as to give a first-class light at a less cost than can be contracted for with a private owner, the plan is a good one, but if this cannot be done with a reasonable degree of certainty, then it is prudent to let the private owners carry all the risk of fire, accidents and management. And in this connection it was pointed out by a leading citizen that in this era of invention and progress it is quite possible that some system may be installed whereby better lights than are now given by the electric system may be had at a much less cost than the present rates for electric lights, and the plant thus lose its commercial business and incur heavy loss which the city would have to suffer if it should be the owner. We have made some inquiry as to the financial aspect of the matter. The appraised value for taxation in Plymouth is slightly less than $!,- 300,000, and thus the .constitutional limit of indebtedness is less than $36,000, being 2 per cent. The pres

ent indebtedness is about 15,000 or a little over that, leaving a magin of about $10,000 that can yet be assumed. Less than $8,000 cash is on hand and the money is practically all in until taxis fall due next spring. And out of this, maturing bonds and interest, about $2,000, must be paid, leaving less than 6,000 for all expenses for the fiscal year ending next April which is not enough. Money will have to be borrowed, in all likelihood before the end of the year and common business prudence suggests that there may be some emergency such as an accident to the water works, a judgment for damages, etc., and with this in view the city should retain a margin of safety of at least 34,000 for possible exigencies. Taking this out of 810,-

000 that might now be borrowed

only $6,000 is left for the purchase

of the lighting plant, and if that

amount is exhausted for the purpose

nothing whatever is left for other improvements such as paving, wa.er works improvements, etc. The price named to the city by the present owners of the plant is understood to be in the neighborhood of 15,000 and it is also understood that in the protracted litigation the plant has run down and will require an additional outlay of perhaps S5,ooo to make it serviceable.

In this view of the case it is evident that the proposed purchase is not possible for, of the 20,000 required, the city has the power to obtain no more than 6,000 and it has no power to incur any indebtedness for the balance. A good lawyer was asked as to this phase and said that if the figures herein given are any where near correct as they appear to be, the city cannot possibly make the investment now ; that when the water works and school house bonds are paid off, or nearly so, will be as soon as the thing can be accomplished. A variety of opinions haye been expressed upon other aspects of the proposition. One well informed gentleman spoke substantially as follows: The city is only a business corporation organized to economize the taxes ; that is, its duties are to keep the tax rate as low as possible by honestly and intelligently managing the expenditures. This cannot be accomplished as a rule by trying experiments in government. The municipal ownership of public franchises is successful in a few advanced European cities where taxes are high, salaries are low, and rotation in office does not prevail. In this country a few cities have succeeded for short periods of time but the constant changes in management as a result of frequent elections and consequent changes in policy, the impossibility of retaining

expert employes because of the bet

ter salaries and opportunities for promotion offered them in private enterprises, and the temptation to

dishonest practices due to the politi

cal system, all and many other causes operate to make the city management of purely business enterprises much more expensive than private management. This is experience, he observed, and seemed reasonable. He professed to be selfish enough to prefer that other cities than the one where he pays taxes should try experiments. Another citizen called attention to the water works as showing the result of city ownership. This, he said, does not require the technical knowledge and skill nor even the business management that an electric lighting buisness makes necessary, but with honest officials and fair business ability our water is expensive, the plant is badly in need of expensive betterments, the old wooden mains must shortly be replaced, and the amount of water that can be served is very limited, although there is a perpetual supply from the wells. He attributes this condition to the fact that a council cannot administer a business as successfully as a single interted corporation or person and argues from it that the assumption by the city of the electric light business would give inferior lights and increased expense. Other objections have been raised but we have given enough to indicate the trend public opinion is taking under the discussion. Taxpayers who r.t the beginning felt favorable to the plan seem to be losing their confidence as they give it thought. The members of the council who will have to assume the resposibility

for the adoption or rejection of the

proposition are following a wise

course in seeking to catch the senti

ment of the people rather than in

attempting to create a feeling one way or another. Upon the whole

the drift seems to be that while municipal ownership of this property may be desirable in the future itis not now feasible or prudent.

with money of his own, to embark in a business, foreign to his knowledge, all will agree. Much more foolish if he be obliged to borrow money to make the speculation. What is true of the individual is true when applied to our city. Our council will no doubt give this phase of the matter ample consideration.

The Independent publishes in this issue a letter from a tax-payer on the electric light matter. It is terse and to the point and emphasizes many of the points brought out in our editorial of yesterday. This letter confirms us in the opinion that the public desires that the city delay the purchase of the electric plant for a number of years at any rate.

The paving matter and waterworks improvements are demanding our

resources at present ; we cannot af

ford to speculate at the cost of these

other needed improyements. That it is bail enough for an individual,

R.J. McDonald, who promotes outdoor amusements, says the Indianpolis Journal, was in the city Friday to try to organize a street fair to be held in the Circle. A number of members of the Commercial club were consulted and were enthusiastic, but desire more time for investigation. Mr. McDonald will return here later and says if a fair is given it will be on a large seile. Street fair promoters, it is said, have for some time had an eye on Plymouth, and perhaps will give us a whirl in the near future.

J. S. IIKKOKN FOIt I'Ki:snKNT.

Lafayette Man Selected by Music Teacher of Indiana. At the business meeting Friday of the Indiana Music Teachers' convention, in eeseion at South Bend this week, the nominating committee made the following report : President, J . !n Bergen of Lafayette; secretary, W. K. M. Hrowne of Newcastle; treasurer, Miss Lillian (i. Smith of Indianapolis. The vice presi dents at large are to be appointed by the president.

Posey county will present the name of Major G. V. Menzies as a candidate for governor at the next

democratic convention. Major Men

zies has been the recognized leader

of the democratic party in the First district for many years. He is a son-in-law of the late Governor

Hovev. Wm. Goebel, the democratic can

didate for governor of Kentucky, is

3S years old and is a "Pennsylvania

Dutchman." We note, however,

by his ugly speeches to his opponent, Capr. Stone, that he knows how to

swear in Engdish.

The war department has informed

Governor Mount that South Bend

would get one of the four Spanish guns to be sent to Indiana. The others go to Columbus, Evansville and Fort Wayne.

General Otis is going to have

40,000 soldiers in the Philippines as

soon as they can be potten there.

Tax-l'ayer on Kleef rie Lights. To the Editor: Under the proposi

tion now before the city council it will cost the city 2,700 a year to light the streets, all night, being 36 lamps at 75

each, which is as low as any city of this

class is paying so far as I know. The

proposed rates for commercial lighting are also very low compared with the rates prevailing elsewhere. This would indicate that the profits in the business are not inordinate. Private owners of

euch plants, to be successful, must make a profit out of the public contracts as

well as out of the private lighting or else

increase the rates to private consumers.

nd there would be no object in taking

a public contract without a profit. If the city buys the plant and undertakes to do its own lighting it must do so up on the theory that the private consumers will pay all the expenses of the busi

ness and enough more to save the 2,700 now paid yearly or the quarter part of it, else the city ownership would be in vain. The city wculd have to make an investment of 15,000 to 20,000 paying interest thereon, and it is a constant heavy drain to keep 6uch a plant from running down so as to lessen the quality of the light furnished. The private

consumers would have to pay enough

to cover the salaries of skilled men, the fuel, the supplies lonstuntiy required,

the improvements on the plant from year to year, the interest on the

indebtedness, an annual payment on

the principal, and the 2,700 now paid

by the city for public lighting, which by

the way is for lighti :g only until midnight. The expense for running such a plant is always greater under city ownership than to private owners. In

addition to this, the city would have to assume all risks by fire, accident, mismanagement, and possibly loss of private consumers due to the introduction

of improved or cheaper lights. Is it good business to undertake all this? The writer is one who thinks not. He does not believe that the tax-payers are

ready to assume the risk of an increased

tax, or that the consumers of electric

lights can be relied upon to pay an increased rate, and one or the other would be inevitaole. Nor does he believe that the public can afford for so small a possible saving to assume all risks inci

dent to eo large a business.

Tax-payeh.

Kleef ric I.iKhtiiiK. Mr. Editor: It hardly seema possible that the whole blaze of electric lighting, first arc then incandescent has spread over all the earth within the last twenty years, JJetter than most public improvements it appears to have come to fair perfection in this brief time. Eike many other towns Plymouth is in full radiance without any previous use of gas. In reference to its continuance as an indispensable public service after the expiration of the present franchise the proposition of our townsman, M. W. Simons, would seem to be acceptable to the city almost without revision. If contract be made soon, giving time for complete preparation the service would pass under expert careful management, without experiment, solicitude or unceitainty. I believe that the council should make agreement with Mr. Simons to the satisfaction of all concerned. One of Many Citizens.

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No Field For It

In speaking of the failure of the North Manchester Leader, a publication that was started at that place two years ago and has had a hard struggle for an existence ever 6ince, the Journal comraeDts as follows: "There are always people who will urge somebody else to go into business, but experience has shown that these people very often have no patronage to give to sustain the enterprise. The dry goods man may not care how many printing ollices there are, but he does not want any more dry goods stores. The groceryman is satisfied to see more dry goods houses started, but he does not want any more groceries. The printer may be pleased to see every other kind of business multiplied, but he does not want any more printing otilced, and so it goes all through the list. It is jast as sensible a proposition to start two or three more stores here in any line of business as it is to 6tart another newspaper, and it is a fact that a man can "bust up" in the newspaper business just as well as in anything else. We do not mean to infer that Mr. McKee has "busted up," for such is not the case. He has simply recognized the inevitable fact that there is no field for the paper here and has had the good sense to cease its publication rather than to hang on to a losing business until eucii a condition might arise."

City ami Kural lr. The city dailies often poke fun ot the country press for the trivial matters that often appear in the local columns bat if the country editor printed onehalf the bosh that appears in the city papers he would be run out of town on a rail. No matters so sacred but are ridiculed, no family so secluded but that their private matters are brought out before the public and dilated upon, no man so honorable but what if it suits the idea of the publisher his name is madea by word, and no man so indecent but that he is made a paragon of virtue if the best good of the papers demands it. Let the city press reform and then it will be proper for them to criticise the rural press and not until then. Vicksburg Commercial.

Fell fron Iii Halooii. Prof. Philipps, the aeronaut, who was to make the ascension here July 3 and 4, fell from his balloon at Culver Sunday, breaking his leg and throwing his wrists out of joint. It seems that as the balloon started to ascend, he was thrown toward the Colonade hotel and coming in contact with the eaves of the hotel he was knocked from the trapo8e, falling a distance of fully forty feet. The excitement ot the crowd was intense, as all thought the accident would necessarily be fatal. The professor was taken to the South Bend hospital for treatment.

Obituary. John Harris died Sunday at 2 p. m. at the heme of Wm. Harris 5 miles northeast of town. He has been a suf ferer from consumption for many months and everything that could be done was of no avail, as the dread disease had firm hold of him. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, G2 years ago. The funeral was held at the Maple Grove church Monday. Services by Kev. Ilailsback and interment at the Nihart grave-yard. He leaves a daughter, two brothers and one sister.

To I'hhm Through Plymouth. Under the auspices of a New York paper, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Davis will str.rt July 1 from that city in a motor carriage bound for San Francisco. It will be the longest automobile run on record and besides requiring endurance, skill and nerve it will be a test of an American-made self-propelling vehicle over the worst American roads. The schedule of the trip shows that the vehicle will pass through Plymouth about the middle of this month.

The Yamlalla to he Improved. The Logansport Pharos says. The Pennsylvania Company, which now owns and controls the Michigan division ol the Vandalia, has under consideration plans that when completed will bring the road from Terre Haute up to the standard. Many improvements iu the way of new steel, new ties, and ballasting are now under way and the company expeets to make needed improvements in its terminal at South Bend. Sunday Clotting nt Wantaw. A Warsaw correspondent says considerable excitement is being caueed there by an attempt to close all the business houses on Sunday. It was announced last week that an effort would be made to close up everything, but the ouly store closed last Sunday which is usually opened on Sunday was the drug store of J. J, Loutz. The reformers intend to push the movement and the business men will fight it.

Free to Our Keaderp. Every member of The Independent who will pay a year's subscription in advance will receive a copy of The Pilgrim, a handsome, illustrated home magazine, for one year. See a sample copy at this oflice. Also a copy of the Heady Reference and Account book ab olutely free. v wtf

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We have just received our first shipment of Fall Carpets, consisting of Moquets, Welton Velvets, Tapestry and Ingrain. They have all heen bought before the late rise and will be sold at old prices for the time being. We have for a certainty the best selection of patterns ever exhibited by anyone this side of Chicago, coupled with matchless prices. Can furnish Borders with all our 'i goods, such as Velvets, Tapestries and Moquets. We make all our carpets ourselves, either with or without borders, and lay them if desired. We are making great efforts for the Carpet business of Marshall county. See our window display. Klegant line of New Hugs at the old prices no rise in our carpet department for duly. We have the best assortment of Linoleums in the city and know how to lay them. Look us over give us a chance on your carpet purchases this fall. Xew line of White Shirt Waists just received from S. L. Munson, the best waist maker in the United States.

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Ir!s'r v. Yaiiscoiak Ca. The Dresser ve. Vanscoiak trial took place at Bourbon Friday. The attorneys concerned were John W. Parks for the fcrmer party and Martindale & Stevens for the latter. Uriefly, the case presents a complication of circumstances something like this. Mr. OreBeer, now of Shambaugh'sshoe 6tore, but formerly of Warsaw, had a horße 6tolen from him last year He claims to have recognized the animal as identical to the one owned by Mr. Vanscoiak, the liveryman, ot this city. Mr. Vanscoiak obtained the horse from Ira Kyser of Argos, and he came in possession of it by legitimate Ujeansfrom other parties. The eui' is to recover the animal which can be done only by proving its identity. Statu Tax Hoard. The state board of tax commissioners will meet at 10 o'clock on the morning ( f July 10, at Indianapolis, and the session will continue i'or twenty days. It will be devoted to a consideration of the assessmc nts of railroads, telegraph and express companies. The second session will begin July 31, and will continue for the same time. It will be devoted to equalizing real estate appraisements and to beariug appeals from county boards of review. The third session will begin August 23, and will last for ten days. Complaints on the assessment of railroads will be heard at the last session.

Horse 3Ialiioudy Poisoned. Reports coming from the vicinity of Argos convey the intelligence that some one 1 as been poisoning horses. A8her Uoyce, we6t of that town, is reported in particular as unfortunate. He and his son, it is said, have lost four horses within a short time. No reason is given for the unkind work except that some one is seeking to gratify a malicious spirit. Inferences have already been drawn from certain unwary remarks, and the guilty party is thought to be practically "spotted." It is needless to forewarn that the law deals severely with such acts.

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Nntlct to Traveling; lMiltllr. lleginning Monday morning, July 3, 1SW, new train service will be in effect on L. K. & W. railroad. Triin No. 21 will leave Plymouth at 5:45 a. m. daily. Train No. 24 will reach Plymouth at 11:25 p. in., returning. Direct line to Indianapolis. No change of cars. J. M. Daubenspeck, agent.