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Bates <s: Company of Manchester. The Electricity Works, for a variety 

 of reasons not connected with the present management, have proved a 

 stone of stumbling to the feet of the Municipality. They are the Achilles 

 heel of the municipal organism, and up to now their exigencies have 

 retarded the usefulness of the Council as a purely municipal agency. It 

 may be that it would have been more prudent for the Council to have 

 stuck to oil lamps, if only for the reason that Aulus Gellius bought his 

 books — because they were cheap. Per contra, Xew Amsterdam is the best 

 lit town in the West indies, and its Municipality the only one that 

 furnishes its own electric light. 



