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* —7— • ■ — 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. ’ "TT 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. Phone 4945