Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 254, 11 September 1916 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 11, 1916

MISS D0N0H0E STRICKEN DEAD IN EATON HOME

EATON, 0., Sept. 11. Seized by a heart attack, superinduced by an illBees caused by asthma, Miss Mary Donohoe, 71, fell to the ground late Saturday afternoon and died at her home on Main street where she was born and spent her entire life. She , was found by Louis Yeager, clerk in the Lake drug store, who had rooms In the Donohoe home. Another matter of singular note is the fact that just ten years ago the 12th of this month Miss Donohoe's mother, wife of the late Joseph Donohoe, suffered a similar attack and died in the yard at the home. Miss Donohoe is reputed to have been one of the county's wealthiest women. She was a sister of the late Mrs. V. W. Lake. Her closest surviving relative is a niece, Mrs. E. C. Campbell. Funeral service will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home, conducted by Rev. Henry Crampton. Burial in Mound Hill cemetery.

ASCENDS HIGH CUPOLA

While nervous pedestrians marveled at the apparent peace of mind in which John Patten, a painter, engaged in painting the cupola of the old Garfield building on North Eighth street Saturday, worked with all the ease and assurance of a youngster whitewashing an alley fence. The high school building cupola is considered by painters the next to the hardest proposition in the city. The court house cupola is voted as the most difficult.

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Continued From Page One. by the city), and, last Saturday, a valuation of $450,000 was established for the company's gas property. These valuations total, $625,000. The Commission permitted the company to float an $875,000 bond Issue. Saturday the commission, in its seventy percent gas rate increase order, blandly remarks: "The right of the people are not affected by over-capitalization, unless it reaches a point where the fixed charges are such as to break down the service." In Water Works Case. For years prior to the creation of the state commission the Richmond City Water Works company was a very profitable concern. It even gave the civil city and the school city its wate" without charge. . Since the commission has been operative this company has been busily engaged in securing increased rates and with results highly satisfactory to the company. The civil and school cities now pay for their water, the water bill of the small consumer, under an order effective the first of last month, has been increased from an average of $4 a year to a minimum of $6 a year through the estblishment of a minimum charge of 50 cents a month. The manufacturers have been unfairly taxed by the establishment of a sprinkler 6ystem charge. When the manufacturers appeared before the commission they were insulted by the chair-

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man, Judge Duncan, who questioned their right to enter a protest. Forces City to Pay. The price the state commission required the city to pay to make is possible for the municipal electric plant eventually establishing the lowest possible electric service schedule would be ridiculous if it was not so serious. The city plant desired to lower its electric rate but its privately owned competitor could not stand a further rate reduction and its interests were protected by the commission. The city officials then realized that if lower electric rates were to be provided Richmond people the electric plant of the Light, Heat & Power company would have to be purchased by the city. After the commission established the valuation of the privately owned electric plant to be $175,000 the city was notified that it would have to pay a purchase price of $212,000 for this property. When the city made this payment the enthusiastic delight of the officials of the Light, Heat & Power company of getting rid of their "white elephant" at such a high figure knew no bounds. If a Public Utilities Commission had not been created by the 1913 legislature the city would have secured, next year, a monopoly of the electric service business without one cent of cost by refusing to renew the Light, Heat & Power company's electric service franchise, which would have expired in 1917. Franchise Surrendered. In entering the natural gas field in this city, about five years ago, the Light. Heat & Power company assumed a franchise which provided that the minimum charge was not to exceed 4j cents. This franchise extended over a long period, probably longer than there will be a supply of natural gas. With the approval of the commission the Light, Heat & Power company wisely surrendered its franchise as it had the right to do under the pcblio service commission law, and began operating under a permit. The wisdom of this action is indicated by the commission's order of last Saturday, increasing the minimum charge from 40 to 70 cents. County Loses Rights. Several years ago a traction company desired the use of the National road through Wayne county. This privelege was given the company in consideration of the company accepting a franchise which provided a reasonable schedule of fares between various points on the company's line within Wayne county. That schedule of rates no longer exists. It was chucked into the discard by the state commission, which has authorized an increased schedule of fares. Therefore the only return the Wayne county taxpayers secured from the valuable right they transferred to the traction company has now been taken away from these taxpayers. Forces Higher Rates. Richmond and Wayne county people have truly benefited from this state commission, which was to "protect" them from greed and encroachments of public utility corporations. . Richmond alone has been compelled to pay over $200,000 to public utilities because of this commission and its citizens are now paying higher gas and water rates than they did before the commission was established, and the patrons of the traction company are paying a higher fare. Bavis Issues Statement. Commenting on the gas rate ruling

just promulgated by the state commission President Bavis of the board, of public works made the following statement today: Gives City "Raw Deal." "To say that this decision is the rawest deal ever handed out by any commission anywhere would not be far from the truth. "What is to be done? If the balance of the administration feels as I feel we will fight this case to the last ditch. "The increase ordered is without justification, even accepting the appraised value at $450,000 of the gas property of the Light, Heat & Power company which would require an annual revenue of $150,500 to meet cost of operations, depreciation, taxes and seven percent profits. "The commission states that the earnings of the company for the year ending December 31, 1915, was $125,605.15, which would leave a deficiency of $25,000. Small Consumer Suffers . "If 40 cents a thousand cubic feet gas will yield $125,505.15 as it did in 1915, why do they need a 30 cents increase to make up a $25,000 deficiency? On the basis of consumption for 1915, ninety-five percent of this revenue was provided by those that use 5,000 feet or less per month. It is on the same small consumers that the burden of this increase will fall. "Those that use 1,000 cubic feet per month must meet a 75 per cent increase; for 2,000 feet, 50 percent; for 3,000 feet, 35 percent; 4,000 feet, 20 percent, and the average increase is 45 percent, from 1,000 up to 4,000 feet. "These same small consumers paid $119,229.89 out of the total revenue of $125,505.15 in 1915, being 95 percent of the total amount, and, consequently, will pay 95 percent of this new increase, which, under the lowest average of increases, could not be less than $53,653.45 to make up a $25,000 deficiency." ' City is Completely Ignored. "The objections and protests of the city to the including of the artificial gas plant into the valuation Is absolutely ignored and $55,971.00, representing the value of this plant, upon which the consumers of natural gas have to pay 9 percent, of $5,037.40 per year, 13 included in the 'used and useful' valuation of the company's property required to supply natural gas. "The effort of the city administration to protect the citizens of Richmond from this injustice is covered by a paragraph of thirteen lines contained in the commission's order of Saturday, which could have been expressed in four words. 'The people be damned.' "To express this sentiment In their

own language the commissioners say: 'The burden is on the petitioner (light, Heat & Power company) to establish

that the proposed increase is just and reasonable.' "It must be comforting to the tax

payers of the " state to contemplate what- they are getting In return for maintaining such an organization. "I have reached the conclusion that

no hope for protection is to be found in the publio service commission of Indiana."

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