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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. . .* * 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 • 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 m 11 mmm 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 ■''. 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. • 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, " -i 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 (Continued on Page Four.)