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IIKAKSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, UA., SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1913.
City of Atlanta is the Latest Enterprise to Give Central Station Electric Current
Complete Approval By Buying It for the New l0,000,000=Gal!on Pump
THE RIVER PUMPING STATION.
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Contract
Dept.
This plant is the home of the new 10,000,000-gallon capacity water pump for which the City of Atlanta Has contracted with the
Georgia Railway and Power Company to supply it with electric power, after carefully considering all other methods.
If any further proof were needed to demonstrate the economy and reliability 01
CENTRAL STATION ELECTRIC CURRENT, after the owners and managers of half a
dozen of Atlanta 3 s big new enterprises had contracted for it upon careful investigation of
ALL methods of supplying power, then that proof is clearly furnished in the action of the
CITY OF ATLANTA last week in rejecting ALL OTHER POWER PROPOSITIONS
and accepting CENTRAL STATION ELECTRIC CURRENT of this company for the
city’s new 10,000,000-gallon capacity water pump at the River Pumping Station.
Every possible effort was made by representatives of other power methods to induce the
city to accept their propositions, including that of the Municipal Ownership advocates who
wanted the city to buy machinery and make its own electricity. Along with these proposals
this company submitted its STANDARD RA TES AND ITS REPUT A TION FOR RELI
ABLE SERVICE.
First, the Water Board, composed of practical business men whose sole purpose is to
secure the best service at the lowest cost for the city, considered all propositions and
ACCEPTED THIS COMPANY’S.
Then the CITY COUNCIL, also composed of business men actuated by the single
motive of buying the best service at the lowest rates, rejected all other proposals and
ACCEPTED THIS COMPANY’S.
Then the ALDERMANIC BOARD AND THE MA YOR, all looking solely for the
city’s best interests, followed the action of the water board and council, rejected all other
methods for supplying power for the city’s new pump and ACCEPTED THIS COMPANY’S.
It was literally the acid test of the economy and reliability of the
Central Station service furnished by the Georgia Railway and Power
Company, and the service and rates stood the test.
The most efficient, the most reliable, the most economical method
of obtaining power and light for factory or building is to contract
with this Company for such service•
Ask for estimates.
Georgia Railway & Power Company
CITY EFFECTS BIG
Centrifugal Pattern Is Bought for
$7,000, as Against $60,000
for Old Type.
Mayor Woodward’s signing of the
contract with the Georgia Railway and
Power Company for electric current
to operate a new 10,000,000-gallon ca
pacity Water pump at the river sta
tion probably marks a new epoch In
the history of Atlanta’s waterworks
department, according to W. Z. Smith,
general manager. A steam pump of
the type in use by the city would
have cost more than f 60,000, but the
contract for the centrifugal pump to
be operated by electricity provides
for an expenditure of only a little
more than $7,000.
The objection of officials of the wa
ter department heretofore to elec
trically driven centrifugal pumps has
been the cost of operation. The cen
trifugal pumps are cheaper and con
venient to house and maintain, but
until the bid of the electric company,
based on ttie new water power rates,
was submitted the officials did not
believe the new plan would be
economic. The rate is 5 1-2 mills per
kilowatt hour.
Work pn the new pump will be
rushed. General Manager Smith said
the crippled condition of two of the
pumps at the river station demanded
ti.at the new one be established as
quickly as possible.—From Tho At
lanta Georgian, April 80.
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