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raise, of $1,500 in the figure this year ; 
next year it would be something else. 
By throwing down the electric light 
proposition it gave the gas people the 
opportunity to dictate as they see fit. 
Of course the lights are better today 
than they have been in the past; any- 
body expecting to lose their job would 
make their best effort. Last winter 
the town had to threaten to bring 
suit before any attention was given to 
protests, and then the president of the 
company came on from Philadelphia. 
In a few years, Mr. Barbour said in 
closing, the sightseeing busses from 
Boston in passing through Manches- 
ter would announce to their patrons 
“This is Manchester-by-the-Sea, the 
only town in the country lighted by 
gasoline.” 
Chester L. Crafts as a member of 
the committee spoke in favor of elec- 
tric lights. It was his opinion that 
the town would do well to accept the 
offer now, when the streets are open ; 
he thought the electric lights would 
give better lighting and more general 
satisfaction. Despite the few disad- 
vantages, such as lights going out 
once in a while, he felt it would be a 
mistake not to take up with the pro- 
position now. 
Frank P. Knight gave a few figures 
on the present lights. In 1913, he 
said, 1347 lights were reported out, 
and this year, up to Nov. I, there 
have been reported 1294 lights out. 
The figures for this year are, Jan. 
354, Feb. 361, Mar. 119, Apr. 80, 
May 97, June 127, July 63, Aug. 62, 
Sept. 23, Oct. 8. The figures told two 
things very plainly, he said,—that the 
most lights were out in the winter 
months when they were most needed, 
‘and that the service had grown best 
as the year advanced and the com- 
pany knew they must brace up or 
lose the job. 
Charles C. Dodge said that he hal 
found the Welsbach lights were in 
use and giving satisfactory service 10 
such places as Orange, N. J.. New 
Haven, Conn., and in residential Bos- 
ton, such as Ashmont and Milton. 
The lights were alright in Manches- 
ter, too, he added, but we haven't 
had the right gang to take care of 
them. The electric lights in Hamil- 
ton were not in it with the gas lights 
in Manchester he had been told by a 
Hamilton milkman. He admitted that 
statistics sometines told queer stories, 
but he wished to state that the figures 
for number of lights out for the year 
up to Feb. 1, 1914, showed that it was 
only one-half of one percent; and for 
the year previous to that it was less 
than one-quarter of one percent, and 
this is a mighty small percentage 07 
the whole. With electric lights if one 
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is out, all are out. What we wanf, 
said Mr. Dodge, is selectmen with 
back-bone to see that the company 
lives up to their contract. He favor- 
ed holding this whole matter over to 
the March meeting. 
Albert Cunningham hoped that 
when the vote was taken every citi- 
zen will vote and not be “timid.” As 
for him he thought better to leave 
well enough alone. 
Selectman George R. Dean of the 
committee related some of the diffi- 
culty experienced by the board in try- 
ing to get the company to live up to 
their word and give better service. 
The board had done all that any fair- 
minded men could do. The system 
went from bad to worse. He thougnt 
the board had showed they had back- 
bone when they gave the company 
just one week to come to terms or 
the board would institute a_ suit 
against them. We were dealing with 
a company 300 miles away. In refer- 
ring to Hamilton street lights again 
Mr. Dean called attention to the fact 
that Hamilton has 200 lights on 36 
miles of streets, while Manchester has 
about 18 miles of streets and 250 
lights, and in addition we propose to 
have a 60 c. p. light, and the price is 
‘o be about $1,200 under the Wels- 
bach Co. price. 
William J. Johnson thought the 
town ought to think this matter over 
well before changing. 
Town Clerk A. S. Jewett thought 
everybody ought to testify how they 
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