THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 35. i| Great Clearance Sale, ii M 14 || COMMENCING £ H Saturday, January 19,1901, WE WILL CLOSE OUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF H M || Ladies and Misses Coats, Capes and Jackets, || REGARDLESS OF COST. *j M It is not our custom to carry over Garments from sea- Ml 114 son to season, thus assuring our patrons of always getting $$ the latest and newest styles. We give our customers this opportunity of securing these wonderful bargains. ' THESE GOODS MUST ALL BE SOLD. w M gM. C. TULIS.II Si Day Sar^T^l JASPER HARRIS' || Nothing M louse... i We are determined to close out our entire stock at once Reg and those desiring to avail ISu themselves of agS ese Wonderful ||| should call at once. EH i Everything Goes j|| at Sacrifice Prices p| ever Such ||j| irgains! |3j Call and see—that's the hhj Pudding of the dish. . . IS j IASPER HARRIS, 1 BJI Opposite Post-Office, Emporium, Pa. raEB /&r— ~ n ir^ ! ft =nEiM^=lE^=n=li^i r QjMi^^a : M EASTMAN'S KODAK 'lf i slno^e ''•• w be a burning proof of the goodness Hi I'll V> \\\ nClfl! ' \r&' { and quality we sell here for little money. Years of business £fgJk k! MBW JJ 112 has convinced us of two things—that we can make the most 1 '-T \ money by being perfectly honest, and that almost every smok- 112 o\J®£ :) '/J ' <er has a different pipe taste. The pipes we have—well, there Mr Jj i| e are long pipes, short pipes and pipes so twisted that/®PMT /V /sfl 11 it would take you a month to unravel them. Prices are varied ji Ml j too —but there are none of them long—none of them twisted, Wmfcmfw rfJi Youcanuarryitin.vouriiandH.onyourshoul- S W3f lU I -J der, in your pocket or oil yourbioyile. 112 (ft fjj] W Yon t h p eTe"Bt! ,e butt,,n ind 1110 Koduk wUI \ HARRY S. LLOYD. ® i _ } _ „ {|J .P.[^>L—i*=.ilr=.i^ tiEF jj§||| "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WEßSTEß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1901. I Letters from the People. I [All communication* under this head must be (accompanied by the writer's name. We will not be held responsible for any expression In this | department-!— HDITOR. I True Figures. I EDITOR PRESS: | So much has been said in the Empo j rium papers relative to the cost of l electric light that we desire to call the j attention of your readers to the cost of electric lighting in some of the princi | pal cities where they use hundreds, and | even thousands, of lights. The figures I are taken from the Philadelphia Record ! of Feb. 11th: ; The following table gives the prices ! for light during the last fiscal year in I! some of the leading cities: No. Hours Per 'amp I City. of lights, burned per year per y'r. I Albany 650 4000 $124.10 ! i Baltimore.... 1391 4000 127.75 I ! Boston 2365 3931 127.75 II Chicago 531 3850 137.50 I : Cincinnati... 3300 4000 84.90 I | Cleveland... 890 3760 87.50 I. Denver 950 4000 124.10 I ! Indianapolis. 1158 4000 85.00 I Jersey City.. 1326 4000 99 00 | i Los Angeles. 823 4000 60 00 !! Louisville... 1523 4000 84.00 I i Milwaukee .. 1412 4000 92.00 II Newark 1689 4000 98.00 j New Haven.. 491 4000 91 25 11 New Orleans. 1626 3850 127 75 1 New York. .. 4392 3850 146.00 | Omaha 334 4000 114.00 j Paterson 740 4000 102.00 j Philadelphia. 7832 4235 111.32 I j Pittsburg 2400 4000 96.00 Providence.. 1870 4000 127.75 Richmond... 533 4000 58 40 Rochester... 2290 4000 91 25 S'n Fr'ncisco 786 3243 127.50 Scran t0n.... 610 4000 73.00 I St. Douis.... 2610 3908 74 95 St. Paul 395 4000 96.00 Syracuse.... 1200 4000 91.25 Toledo 1100 4000 83.00 i Washington . 658 4000 72.00 Worcester. .. 647 3650 116.80 B&r (jive us More Figures. To start with let us say, that in many instances one shows the white feather by not attaching hie name to his articles intended for publication, but we must admit that this question has two sides to it, as well as other questions, and in many ways it is proper to omit the 1 name; for instance, it gives anyone perfect freedom to answer without fear of offending or being partial or impar tial in his views on accountof the prob- i able friendship existing between the opponents. Personalities should be omitted in all cases so far as any un pleasantry is concerned. The writer, as well as many others, i perhaps, has not forgotten the endless display of figures given by those favor ing electric light, and amoug them we will refer to a statement made by Dr. ' Bardwell in the PRESS of Dec. 13, 1900, j in which he shows us figures from five towns where each arc light costs from j $6.50 to $10; six towns that pays all ex- i penses—street lights free; one town more than pays expenses, and four i towns puts from $340 00 to $900.00 in | tueir treasuries. The above towns av- ' erage the size of Emporium. Besides j ! this, other gentlemen have given us ! | scores of reliable figures, showing what I other towns have done by way of put- j ting in and operating electric light i plants on economical plans. This matter of continually asking for | more figures reminds us of PatO'llagen j who made four wishes to be granted by ■ a fairy: Ist: he wished for all the whis- 4 | key in the world: 2d: all the houses iu | the world: 3d: all the land and waters, j Then he was stuck, and after some j hard thinking, he said, "I guess I'll > j take some more whiskey." Therefore j i if it is figures you want, and you are j not yet satisfied, please sit down and J enumerate these: 97{-385160 (^'g 1 i IfcWgßßgmifj. An Appreciated (lift. On Tuesday Air. W. L. Sykes of Gale ton, in behalf of the Emporium Lumber Co., presented the Hospital with a check of SIOO. The gift will be greatly appreciated. Mr. Sykes is vice-presi dent of the Hospital and takes a great interest in its work.—Austin Republi- i can. SERIOUS WRECK. : One Man Killed and Twenty Cars Demolished. Yesterday morning about three o'clock a freight train coming east wrecked near Rathbnn. Thomas Bow ers, of Renovo, was killed and twenty cars completely demolished. An axle broke near the middle of the train, where brakeman Bowers stood. Wrecking crews were promptly on hand and at one o'clock discovered Bowers' body under the wreck, fright fully mangled. He was a widower, but leaves two children who reside at Tyrone. All traffic between this place and the scene of the accident was stopped, all trtans running via Drift wood and Dußois until yesterday evening. It waß not only aserioußbut a very expensive accident to the P. & E. R. R. Emmanuel Church Lenten Services. Ash-Wednesday, February 20th,10:30 I a. m., Mdrning Prayer and Fenitential Office. Daily Bervices as follows: 4:30 p. m., on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursday. 7:30 p. Jh., on Wednesdays and Fri days. ' A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present at these services. At the Wednesday and Friday even j ingservices therelwill be lectures on the history of the English Church; at the afternoon services, devotional readings, j On Sunday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock , there will be a class for the study of the English Church History under the : I direction of Mr. Chas. T. Logan. Text | Book: Hutton's Elementary History , of the Church in Great Britain. (E. S. j , Gorham, 22d St.and 4th Ave, New '■ ! York, 30c.) J. M. ROBERTSON, Rector. Pound Party a Success. The Pound Party at Odd Fellows j Hall, last Monday evening was a sue-! cess, the ladies having the matter in | j charge receiving a large contribution , jof provisions and money. The musical, literary and grapliophone entertain ment was pleasing. Fire at Eldred. Eldred was visited by a $12,000 fire : early last Tuesday morning. Their j excellet fire department saved a large amount of property. BRIEF HENTION. Emporium is composed of the largest i hearted and most charitable people in i the State. The collection for missions waß lifted at M. E. Church last Sabbath and was I an advance over last year. Hay shippers and balers are scouring the country for hay at $lO and sll per ton in the barn, and find little at that price. Farmers are holding on for bet ter prices and it looks as though they would get them. In the Pittsburg vi cinity hay is worth from sls to sl7 per ton.—Meadville Star. A new postoffice ruling has just gone into effect, imposing a fine of SSO or one year imprisonment for any one who through carelessness or otherwise takes mail not belonging to them from the office and fails to return it immediately. This applies to newspapers as well as letters. Wednesday evening, Feb. 6, the L. O. T. M's of Silver Star hive at Sterling j Run, had the pleasure of entertaining j fourteen of the lady Bee's from the ; Gladolia Hive, Emporium. After the i regular review, refreshments were served and all report a pleasant time. ' The visiting ladies were: Mesdames Armstrong, Butler, Devon, Hackett, Halderman, Hennessey, Housler, Huff man, Munsell, Schouten, Schwartz, Warner, Winfield and Miss Lulu Lewis. • Never Had a Cold since I carrying a package of ! Krause's Cold Cure Capsules in my vest j pocket. T take one whenever I feel a ' cold coming on. It's easy. Price 25c. Sold by L. Taggart. Feb A Reply to nr. Howard's Open Letter. MY DEAR MS. HOWARD:—I have read i your "Open Letter" in the PRESS of | Feb'y 7th, and beg to reply through | the same medium. In anßwer to your question as to why I do not give some figures besides my ! own, I must say that if you do not be long to that class of men of whom the ; "Good Book" says, "Eyes they have but they see not, ears have they but they hear not," or words to that effect, j you surely can not in sincerity ask such ' a question as this. I can not answer this question better than to refer you to the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS of Dec. 13th, 1000, where yon will find at top of j first column on first page an article j fairly bristling with figures, none of which were mine, but were furnished ; by the officials of the towns mentioned. This article, signed and contributed by your humble servant, was over one-half column in length, and how it escaped your vision is truly wonderful. These ; figures showed cost of electric street ; lights in sixteen small towns about the size of Emporium, and all those towns j own their own plants and sell incan- J descents to private consumers. I did not give Mr. Sampson's figures for the , reason that they refer to a private com pany and I did not care to fill the pages j of the PRESS with statistics of a second hand, watered plant, built and watered jto unload on the borough. There is no ; proposition before the house, my dear I Sir, to putin any such a company or such a plant in Emporium. You may ! examine the original letters if you i choose. Really, my friend, you must pardon me if I am not able to see any connec ! tion between the fact of your having ! attended night school at Williamsport and my assertion that SSO per year is ample remuneration for keeping the accounts of the light plant. This work, of course, should be done by the bor ough treasurer, and so little onerous will be the task that I very much doubt Mr. Lloyd's acceptance of more than SSO per year even if it were offered him. As to the $30.00 per year for repairs; I am informed by the General Manager of the Williamsport Electrical Con struction Co., that one dollar per year per arc is a fair allowance for repairs. I have noted the figures published by Council, as you request. My! Josiah! but this is terrible! You have struck an average, and say you have deducted all income for lights sold to the people. Do you not realize how misleading this statement is although literally correct? "The letter killeth." Do you not know that of these four plants only one, Watsontown, sells any lights? Do you not know that of these four towns only two own their own plants? Do you not at once recognize the futility of fig uring an average on four such dissim ilar plants and then publishing this average as the probable cost of a plant built on a plan perfected during the past two years, and said by all electri cians to run at an expense of less than two-thirds that of any standard 2000 c. p. arc ever built? Could you add the cost of two saw mills to the cost of two hub factories and by finding the aver age cost determine the expense of put ting a furniture factory in operation? Averages in electric light affairs are always misleading and usually utterly worthless. Ask any electrician as to this. I have no reason to doubt the correct ness of figures published by council, but I do object most strenuously to the unwarranted use you make of them. Titusville is fully four times as large as Emporium in population and in area. With, as a consequence, four times as many poles and wires to put up. We will say, however, that Emporium 60 arc plant should cost one-half as much to run as the 120 arc plant in Titusville. We shall receive at least $750.00 per year for incandescents bringing the cost down to $1,350 per year. We shall use enclosed arcs which cost three -1 eighths less than standard archs, leav ing $843 75 —cost of our borough lights I according to this statement. Now turn to Watsontown. According to your own figures Watsontown has 33 arcs and 1,400 incandescents; it costs I $259 per month to operate the plant, arcs costing S4B each per year after deducting incandescents. Why not follow these figures to their logical conclusion: Cost $259 per month is $3,108 per year. 33 arcs at S4B is $1,584 cost of arcs. $3,108 less $1,584 is $1,524 cost per year of 1,400 incandescents, hence Watsontown sells 16 c. p. lights at about nine cents per month each. These lights at our price of 25c per month each would bring in $4,200.00 per year, and so far from the arcs cost ing S4B each Watsontown would get her street lights free and put $1,09'.! each year in her treasury. If you wish to reduce the number of incandescents to about the number proposed in Em- j porium for comparison you must at the same time reduce the $3,108 per year expenses, as the plant is three times as large as our proposed plant solely by reason of the 1,400 incandescents. More figures for me, did vou say, Mr. Howard? Fetch 'em along, fetch 'em along, and I shall do my best to straighten 'em out for you while you wait. Yours sincerely, I E. O. BARDWELL. I TERMS: $2.00—51.50 IN ADVANCE. WEATHER REPORT. (Forecast by T. B. Lloyd.) FRIDAY. Pair. SATURDAY, CIoudy; warmer. SUNDAY, Probably Snow. Voters Remember. Voters Bhould remember that figures relating to cost or operation of any old, worthless, broken down, second-hand light plants, similar to that at Jersey Shore for instance, have nothing to do with our business, as no such plant is contemplated here. E. O. BARD WELL. Denial. It being currently reported that I am about to assume my old position at the Furniture Factory, I wish to inform patrons and friends that such is not tho case. Though being interested in it, will place me in position to serve the public better than ever before. Watch our announcement. BERNARD EGAN, Manager Emporium Furniture Co. A. F. Vogt's Patent. A. F. Vogt's patent lumberman's calk rubber is attracting considerable attention from the manufacturers of rubber goods and he is receiving num erous calls for samples. Why not or ganize a home company and manufac ture the popular article here? It will no doubt be a money maker, being the only known rubber that will hold a calk, attached to an insole of leather and felt. The Thespians Coming. The State College Thespian Club, composed of twenty-three students have consented to give an entertain ment in Emporium, Saturday evening, teb. 23d, for the benefit of Firemen's Fund. They will present two plays, "David Garrick," and "Lend Me Five Shillings," an unusually strong cast of ten men, in addition to a mandolin club of ten members. Since the gentlemen have kindly of fered their services to our firemen it is hoped our citizens will give them a royal reception. riothers' fleeting. A Mothers' Meeting will be held in the High School room in Emporium, Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2:30 p. m. Special announcement will be sent to each home as far as can be done, but owing to the difficulty in securing a correct list of the mothers of the town, it is probable that some will be omitted in the special announcement. Inasmuch as the meeting is in the in terest of the school children it is ear nestly requested that ever mother will make a special effort to be present. The following questions will be dis cussed: (1) —Cigarette Smoking. (2) — Home Study. (3)— Regularity and Punctuality. (4)— Physical care of the child as it effects the mental and moral development. 51-2t The Experience of Other Towns With Electric Light. Watsontown borough owns its elec trict light plant. Population, 2,000. They have 33 arc lights and 1400 incan descent lights. Their plant cost sll,- 307. It costs $259 per month to operate it. They use coal for fuel. Net cost of each arc light per annum is about S4B. Plant was built in 1898. Milton, Pa., population 6,200, buy their lights. They have 60, 2000 c. p. arc, and pay $72 per light per annum. Titnsville, Pa., population 9000, own their electric light plant. They have 120 arc lights. The plant coat SIB,OOO. It costs $4,200 per annum to operate it. They use gas for fuel. Net cost per annum is $35. Dußois, Pa., population about 10,000, buy their light. They have 68 arc lights, 1,200 incandescents and pay $65 per light per annum. Coudersport, Pa., population 3,500, buy their light. They have 22, 2,000 c. p. Brush Standard lamps. They pay $55 per light per annum for 12 arc lights and SBO per light per annum for 10 arc lights. They say, "the Company has never more than paid expenses, but expect to with the new gas engines. They want a new contract with the borough for about 25 arc lights at SBO per year each." Jersey Shore, Pa., population 3,500, buy their lights. They have 21, 1,600 c. p. arc lights. They pay S2O per an num. They say, "an electric, light plant without duplicate machinery is a very uncertain thing. The borough has been trying to run this plant for the last six months, and we have done it at a loss of $l5O per month." The foregoing are all the towns which have replied to our questions and who light their streets with electric lights. C. JAY GOODNOUGH, Secretary Council. If you want to Buy Anything,— Advertise in the PRESS NO. 51.
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