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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES-CALL
VOLUME XI. NUMBER 116.
A STATEMENT FROM
RECEIVER GREENE.
Compairing' Rates on Light
and water.
FIGURES FROM
OTHER CITIES.
Have Beei (la If
tie Receives
SHOWING HR MIES.
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Every Brunswick Should Read
the State and Compare the
Figures.
Report of W. 8. Greene, Receive?
Brunswiok Light and Water Cos.
To the Committee of Bondholders’
Baltimore, Md.
Brunswick, Ga., Deo. 31.1900.
Gentleman •
Replying to your inquiry as to rates
obarged by this Company to the City
of Brunswiok for Water, Gas and
Eleotrioity supplied by this Company
to said City, and a comparison of rates
in other cities aod towns in the stats
of Georgia, I beg to say that a proper
comparison ean only be made as be
tween private corporation?, as where
there ia municipal ownership the city
Of ooorae supplies itself. 1 have pro
oured books of rates aod rules from
aeveral cities and from them have
gathered material for comparison, and
which I herewith submit:
lat. Brunswiok, Ga.—For fire protec
tion, eaob hydrant yearly $50.00
Flushing sewer aod other purpose?,
for a daily consumption of from 1000
to 30,000 gals, per 1000 gals 10
This Company puts in ail corporation
cooks at mains, lays all service pipes
to sidewalk and puts in stop cock free
Of cost to consumer.
The City has a Waring system ot
sanitary sewerage with sixty four
automatic flush tanks, formerly set to
flush three times in twenty four hours,
each tank holds 150 gallons, and the
46 require 10,613,000 gallons per year.
For this I made them a rjte of 100. per
1,000 gallons, but it was rejeoted and
the water has never been paid for and
la still being supplied under protest,
and ie still being used.
Q There are also two water carts for
street sprinkling using 3,831.260 gal
lons per year, and this is on same
footing as the sewerage w&ter. Tbe
monthly amount now charged the city
is abont $1,000.00 or $12,000.00 per year
or $1,33 per oapita, I heard Col.
Goodyear in a speech at the City Hall,
in speaking about the health of the
City, say it was due to tbe magnificent
aawei-ags system, \vhioh of c urse
would be useless without this Compa
ny’s water to flush it.
Tbla City is supplied with gas for 146
street lamps, each lamp consu mi ng 1400
feat of gas monthly or 16.800 feet
yearly, at a charge of $ 1.19 per 1,000
feet, or ye arlv per lamp $20.00
It is also supplied with 47 electrio
aro lamps each yearly SB4 00.
2nd. Atlanta Water Works.— Thie
being municipal ownership, there is no
charge for water used by the City;
hence I gave rates to oonsumerr, and
wbiob are usually higher than rates to
cities in ease of private corporation, as
retail is to wholessle:
Atlanta charges per 1,000 gallons daily
up to 75,000 daily for each 1,000
gallons 10
For 150,000 gallons daily 08
For 1,050,000 “ “ 06
In addition to these chargee, each
property owner pays a water tax to
meet interest on the bonds and to pro
vide a sinking fund, and this is ths
case with all municipal ownerships.
All connections, eto., to sidewalks
are free.
3rd. Tbomasville Waterworks.—Mu
nicipal Ownership. For each I,ooo_
gallons, 0 15
Water tax in addition. All connec
tions, etc., to sidewalk, charged for.
4th. Wayoross Waterworks—Munici
pal Ownership. For each 1,000 gal*
ions, 0 20
Water tax tu addition. Consumer
pays rental for meter. Fire hydrants
estimated yearly 45 00
Connections, etc., to sidewalk,
charged for,
sth. Augusta Waterworks—Munici
pal Ownership. For eaob 1,000 gal
lons . t 0 10
Consumer pays for meter. Water tax
in addition. Connections, etc., charged
for
6th. Columbus, Ga.—Private Owner
ship. For each 1,000 gallons per
day, up to 20.000 gallons 0 10
Over 20,000 gallons per day, for each
1,000 0 08
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Connections to sidewalk free.
100 Fire Hydrants, since 1882, each
at 75 00
40 Fire Hydrants in annex this year,
each at 40 00
7tb, Birmingham (Ala.) Waterworks,
Private Ownership.—For 1,000 gal
lons or less, daily 0 30
For 35,000 gallons, or less, daily. 0 .10
i For 40,00 gallons, or lees, daily.. 0
For 60,000 gallons, dally 8
Connections to sidewalk obarged
for. Consumer pays meter rental.
For each Fire Hydrant, yearly. 60 00
Sth. Goldsboro (N. C.) Waterworks.
For 100 to 1,000 gallons, daily.. 40
For 10,000 gallons, daily 20
For over 10,000 gallons, daily. 15
Each Are hydrant, per annum. 40 00
9tbb. Jacksonville (Fla.) Waterworks.
Municipal Ownership —For 300 to
375 gallons per day, per 1,000 1 6
For 375 to 750 gallons p?r day, per
1,000 15
For 750 to I,ROO gals, per day, per
1,000 10
1,500 to 7 500 gallons per day, per
1,000 9
Over 7,500 gallons per day, per
BRUNSWICK, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3 1901.
1,000 05
Water tax in addition.
10th. Alexandria (Va.) Waterworks.
Private Ownership.— For 200 gallons
or less, per day, per 1,000.: 50
For 200 to 300 gallons or less, per
day, per 1,000 40
For 800 to 1,000 gallons or less, per
day, per 1,000 35
For 1,000 to 2,000 gallons or less, per
day per 1,000 30
For 2,000 to 10,000 galloos or less,
per day, per 1,000 20
After 10,000 gallons, no rate less
than 10
Connections to sidewalk obarged for.
11th. Charleston, S. C. Water Works
Private corporation. Average
daily consumption of 500 gallons
per day per 1,000 gals 60c
Average daily consumption of 500
to 2,000 per 1,090 gallons 50c
Average dally consumption of 2,000
to 5,000 per 1,000 gallons 40c
Average dally consump’ion of 5.000
to 10.000 gallons, per I,ooogals 30c
Over 10,000 gallons 250
Connections to sidewalk charged for;
consumer pays for meter.
Fire protection by the mile of water
main at $333.33 per mile with 20 hy-
drants to each mile of main.
Gas. Now as to the comparison of gas
charges, I have no statistics on hand,
bnt the sharge of this company of $1.19
per 1,000 feci is believed to be as low as
In any other city not giving -‘one dol
lar gas” and this compaLy holds
that its aharges are below any city Id
the south in its rates to a municipality.
I put in a meter on a street gas lamp
and it is lit and put out by our lamp
lighter as the oity’s lamps are, aud I
find it consumes about 1.600 feet In the
winter months and 1,200 in the summer
months, an average of 1,400 icet per
month for the year.
Electricity. This company charges for
electric city lighting as follows;
Each arc lamp, 2000 candle power,
burning all night and every night, the
sum of $7,00 per month each, or, SB4 00
per year, and asserts the fact that it is
less that nine tenths of the cities in the
south charge, and lees than any oharge
under like conditions, with ooal at
$3.40 per ton.
Now to give comparison of eleetio
light charges:
Brunswick, population 9,000 scedule
all night and every night yearly $ 84,00
Atlanta, populutiou 100.000 all
night schedule 85.00
Macon, population 28,000 schedule
all night 85.00
LsGrange, population 4,000 sched
ule all night 90,00
Rome, population 1.200 schedule
all night 96,00
Columbus, popula'ioa 19,000
schedule moooPeht 85,00
Montgomery, Ala, population
ledu e ill night 108,00
Se rna Ala., population 12000
ichedu e moonlight 120,00
St. Smith, Ark., population .6.000
scedule until 1 a. m, 100.00
Helena, Ark., population 17,000
scedule moonlight 120.00
Pine Bluff, Ark., population
15,000 scedule sll night 100 00
1 bavo a book giving prices of elec
tric lights In 1,243 cities and towns,
arranged alphabetically, and I have
taken those that approach to onr popus
latlon or nearest in location in the
south, and using 2000 C. P. Lamps,
From the foregoing it will be seen
that tbe Bruns wick Light & Water
Company charges about the same as to
water in some instances, much less in
others and more in no place except
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Ali Officers GHosm For
tie Year 1901.
(JIS BUSINESS IK!
Mr. Constance Miller Elected a
Member of the Board to Suc
ceed Mr. H. H. Raymond.
The county eomm'ssioncrs held an
interesting me ting Tuesday and the
following is the official report of the
same.
REGULAR MEETING,
Brunswick, Ga., Jan. 1, 1901.
Present—C. D, Ogr. T. Newman,
Davis Dubberly, W. R. Townsend J.
B. Wrght.
Minutes of last meeting read and
adopted.
Resigoation of H. H. Raymond re
ceived and accepted.
Upon motion C. D. JOgg was elected
chairman for the enf uing two years.
Upon motion Constance Miller was
elected a member of the board to fill
the vacancy caused by the reglgnatlon
ol H. H. Raymond .
UpoD motion A. L. Franklin was
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elected county attorney for the year
1901, salary to remain ae formerly.
Upon motion Dr. G. V. Cates was
elected county physician, at a salary of
S3O per month, time to expire at the
discretion of the board:
Upon motion W. TANARUS, Owens, Steve
Gorton and Mitchell Blunt were elected
superirftendert, day guard, night guard,
respectfully, of the couoty convicts.
Salary to be the same ss formerly ; time
to expire at the discretion of the board.
Upon motion J, M, Mosley was eleetd
janitor of the court house for the ensu
ing year, Salary to be the same as for
merly.
The following resolution was offered
and adopted:
Be it, and it is horeby resolved that
the tax collector be required to make
to this board a monthly statement of
all tax executions turned over lo him or
his deputy for collection, and also a
statement of all executions returned to
him by the sheriff or his deputy as col -
ected.
And to request tbe sheriff to make a
monthly e'/Mment of the cx cations rc -
turned over to him.
The bid of Lott & Lewis for furnish -
ing supplies to the county convicts for
the month ef January accepted, same
being the lowest bid.
Board adjourned to meet on Monday,
Jan. 7, 1901.
A. O. Townsend,
Clerk.
Jacksonville, Fla,, which is municipal
and has its tax to be added to its oharge.
Tbe gas charge is very low and its
electrio charge is the lowest of any
piaoe under like conditions. It also
does more for its customers in tbe w.y
of free oonneotions for water, except
Atlanta, Columbus and Jacksonville,
wbicb also gives free connection, tbe
other eight oities out of eleven quoted
charging heavily for such connection.
Respectfully submitted,
W, 8. Greenn,
Receiver.
DEATH OF MR. GEORGE WILDER,
Passed Away Monday Nigh f , After a
Lingering Illness.
After a lingering illnes?, Mr. George
Oaosr Wilder passed peacefully to hie
rest at 9:46 o’olook Monday night.
At 2 :30 o’clock, Tuesday, the funeral
services, wluob were held at fb- f-rrv'v
residence, 1203 Prince etreer, were
conducted by Rev, Rainey, pf the
Episc’pal church. A funeral anthem
was beautifully sung by the Madams
Stacy and Mr, Lamanoe, with a sweet
aod soothing organ acoompaDiment by
Mrs. Bays. }
The large assembly of friends, and
the profusion of rare and lovely flow
ers, wbioh covered the casket, testified
to the high esteem in which the de
ceased was held by the community.
The pall-bearers were Mr. A. C.
Banks, Mr. Wm. Baker, Mr. Aleck
Peters, Mr. Wm. Nightengale, Mr. H.
M King and Mr. N. Emanuel.
The services were concluded at Oak
Grove cemetery, where the interment
was made,
Mr. Wilder’s native p ace was Clin
ton, Mass., where he was born May 2d,
1844. His early life was spent in Hol
listoo, Maes., whe.e be received a good
mercantile eduoation. At the age of
eighteen, when volunteers were called
for, be enlisted as private in the 15th
Massachusetts regiment, but rapidly
rose to the rank of Ist Lieutenant and
Adjutant, which rank he held when
the war ended, thus giving four years
of his early manhood to the service of
bis oouotry.
Io 1871, Mr. Wilder came to Bruns
wiok, where be and his family have
sinoe resided most of the time. He
was for many years associated with
the firm of Cook Bros,, and has always
been identified with the lumber Inter
ests of Brunswick.
In obaraoter, he was extremely gen
erous and sympathetic, genial and
happy with his friends, a devoted hus
band Indulgent parent,
He leaves a wife and one son, A.
Fred. Wilder and family, and many
friends to mourn his loss.
FUNERAL OF MR. O’CONNOR.
His Remains Tenderly Laid to Rest in
Oak Grove Cemetery.
The remains of Mr. Thos, O’Connor,
whose sad death occurred on last Sun
day were tenderly laid to rest on Tues
day, lu Oak Grove cemetery,
The remains were followed to their
last resting place by a large number of
sorrowing friends. The following gen
tleman acted as pall bearers:
Messrs, A. V. Wood, 11. Terras, A,
E. Wenz, H. F. duBB-non, W. E. Kay.
The seryici s were conducted from St.
Xaviei’s Catholic church, Father P. J.
Luckie, officiating. The choir wa9
composed of Mr. C, L. Candler. Mr. R.
E. Lamance, Miss Nellie Co'esberry and
Mrs Hugh Porter, Mrs Baya, organ ist
NO T A CANDIDAEE.
Mr. Robert Leviaon Not to Offer For
Marshal Again,
The Times-Cali said some dajs ago
that Mr. Robert Levison would be a
candidate for chief of police but thi
was a mistake. Mr. Levison purchased
a business some time ago and as soon
as bis suceeisor is elected be will
pr mp'ly re lire from bis present place
Mr, Levison has served tbeoity eigbi
years tnd has made an exoellent o®
cer. He goes out ovrrying with hio.
the good wishes of everybody.
HE GOT THREE MILLION
THEN LEFT HIS WIFE.
Papers Served on Actor
Hutching Yesterday.
A SAD DEATH.
Mrs. H. Myers Passed Away Tuesday
M >rn>ng.
Died, at 3:3d e clock a. m., January
let, 1901, Lula Dart Myers, wife of
Mr. H. Myers, of Tifton, Ga., and old
est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R.
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Dart, of Brunswiok, Ga.
To live a happy, petted girlhood; to
be a well-beloved wife, aDd to die be
fore the cares of life and motherhood
furrowed the brow, and sever the
bounding heart, is the happiest fate
that can befall a woman.
Such has been the lot of Lula. Five*
years ago this Marob, she married the
man of her choioe, and though she
went with him to live at Tifton, in the
lovely little home he provided, her vir
its to her parents have been frequeDt,
aod t-acb return brought to us akuowl
ege of ber happy contentment, and the
certainty that Lula was beloved by her
husband’s large family oirele, as she
had been by her own. When she came
Chela Christmas there was hope of even
greater happiness than the season
usually brings, and when ber little son
was laid in her arms, aud we were as
sured that “all was well,” our con
gratulations were showered on the
proud young parent with little thought
that before three days were done, Lula
would have left this world, and all its
joys and sorrows forever. Yet, suoh
has been the oase—and today we lay
her sweet young body in the grave;
while the grief of ber husband and pa
rents, the sobs of her sisters, and ories
of ber dear little baby, fall on non
bearing ears.
There i*.jjo comfort for ‘hose so
sadly bereft, but to* 'uer, bur pula,
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there should be only joy lo ber new
and perfect life.
No more nervous apprehensions, no
more pain and tears for ber! From
happiness to heavenly bliss, from a
bed of pain to peics unspeakable, Lula
has gone.
Our dear little nervous girlie,
I’aioleßS and quiet now,
With the peace of ao endless restful*
ness
Stamped on her marble brow,
Has gone to ber home in Heaven,
And waving her beautiful hand.
Called to us, “Come! I am waiting,
Safe in this eorrowless land.”
A (.'n’t Fannie Lou.
WORK PROGRESSING.
The force of hands who started to
work grading the right of way for the
ucw Brunswick &, Birmingham railroad
are making rapid headway. They have
graded as far as Howe street from the
fair gtounds,
City council meets in regular session
tonight,
Thi Rill men held a meeting in ttiei*
ar nory last night.
Most of the Jekyl island help arrived
on the steamer from New York Tuesday
H-Tr-tyGlazier in the scenic produc
tion “The Three Muskueteers" follows
Secret Service,
p RICE FIVE CENTS
THE DLL LADY
IS AFTFR HU*
He Is Twenty-foir aid
His fife Sevealy-fire
SHE BECAME JEALOUS.
"And He States He Had. 1
Her But He Has' Ihe
Property |
After chasing Willard Hutehiasea,
the handsome young aotor, club aaaa
and beau ideal of matiaaa girls
around tbe world, attoraeys for at*
eighty year old wife suoooodod ig
getting oiose enough to him la Braat
wiok yesterday to aerve him wfllL
papers requiring him to appear la Now
York at the next term of oourt aod
show cause why be should not anrraa
der about three millionj dollars worth
of New York property to bio wifo,
Hu'obinson is a dashing young aotor
in George Clarkes “When |We Wore
Twenty One Company.” Hn reaebet
Brunswiok yesterday morning aad
shortly after tba morning tollef bad
been made legal papers ao aforesaid
were served oo him. The matter was
kept quiet until last night whoa a
Times-Call man ran across the story
and sought Hutchinson out. Ho wad
on the stage at the Grand at tbe time,
I
rftae oonier of all eyes and especially
admired by many wbu
ued well groomed perioSß^^^^B
Ed. Wolfe arranged a stage
terview with the Times-Call man vraß
caught Hutobiuson as ho waa ooming
off the stage. Ho asked for time te
prepare on interview bat upon beiag
pressed for a statement said in tab*
stance: “Ye* legal papers ware
served oa me today. They warn
served at tbe initanoe of my wile.
Bbe is on tbe shady aide of (evenly.
My wife wants property that (be gave
me to marry ber. There wa* a
straightout trade. I married' ber la
good faitb and got the property ae ber
part of tbe bargain. Il.ved with her
until sbe got so jealous 1 bad to leave
ber. Ob there is no qusstton abaat
my having ths property til right. It
is worth shout three million and lam
going to keep i'. Bbe is my wlft sad
she gave it lo me to marry ber all
righL”
WiHa and Hutchinson is twenty four
years of age and earos about thirty
flv? di’l ars per week. They have gone
through ihe divoroe court* and by
legal right she weara ths rams of Mrs.
Louisa Chamberlain Caldwell Tomp
kins Mtroo Hutchinson, fibs alt* did
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