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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1907
Page
6
Walter W. Burgess compares American telephone systems favorably with European models. He praises US private operators for speed, efficiency, modernization, and better treatment of workers while noting Europe’s slower, state run, less flexible approaches and rigid rules.
Colorado City rejected a municipal lighting bond. Wildisville Illinois voters defeated a proposed electric plant bond. South Sharon Pennsylvania also refused bonds for an electric plant. Lake Forest Indiana voted down buying waterworks. The Dittsburghan Tendright area backed municipal waterworks defeat. Strawberry Count Iowa rejected a municipal power plant after expert review and favored a franchise. Muncie Indiana abandons municipal ownership as plant machinery sold. Bryan Ohio voters defeated a 40000 bond for water and lighting plant improvements. Doverly Ohio says selling the plant seeks better service. Rutherford New Jersey rejects involvement in fighting business. Overall, voters push back on municipal ownership of utilities amid service and cost concerns.
Valley City North Dakota votes nearly three to one to sell its city electric lighting plant. Citizens cite rising costs and declining service, noting previous failed sale bids and growing preference for private or external power. In nearby Souderton Pennsylvania, Sanderton borough debates abandoning its plant to buy electricity from West Telford Electric at a lower price.
An aldermanic committee's adverse verdict cites Bellefontaine lighting plant at 73000 dollars, municipal bonded debt of 322000, and a 4 percent tax rate. The city owns waterworks gas and electric plants, funds improvements, and pays high salaries to officials. The report warns that other cities let plants deteriorate until bond values exceed property value.
An editorial from the Minneapolis Tribune condemns municipal ownership as a hidden wasteful practice. It argues that cities mask extravagance by shifting costs to taxpayers through debt and general revenue, citing British provincial cities as a cautionary example of growing debt leading toward bankruptcy.
The superintendent of a city owned electric plant describes how board overrule, bureaucratic delays, and flawed policies led to poor maintenance and higher costs. He notes dirty boilers, failed meters, unmetered water, long supplier delays, and overextended shifts, then cites improved rates after adjusting control back to the plant.
An editorial in the Buffalo Twins argues that municipal ownership mirrors republican self government, noting that communities should run transportation for citizens and equating it to state provision of daily needs. It criticizes the notion that self government requires privatizing essential services.
On the disnession of his accomplice Willa Wilvex former superintendent of the municipal electric light plant of Columbus Ohio he has been arrested on charge of putting through seven by us vouchers which are said to net the conspirators 4080 dollars.
Lincoln Nebraska faces scrutiny over the city street light system cost. Reports show higher annual costs than private suppliers in neighboring towns. Officials debate depreciation, interest, and total construction costs while mayor and professors publish conflicting figures. Municipal ownership debates intensify amid estimates.
An editorial in Fire and Water Engineering reports London’s new county council hesitates to sell or lease Thames steamboats, plans four and a half months’ summer operation, and trims wages and fares. It also opposes municipal power plants, urges charging for free municipal water, and highlights taxpayer costs for water to sprinkle streets and protect nonpaying tenants.
The Crawfornsvile municipal electric light plant reports a net profit of 0.727 dollars but trustees have approved a two percent wage advance for staff. Analysts note profits are calculated before interest and depreciation, estimated at about $10,000 annually.
The municipal electric lighting plant of Nidghtstown Indiana needs extensive repairs and proposes issuing 10000 dollars in bonds. The city council argues rates for electric service must rise to keep the plant self sustaining after the vote.
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