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Show MAYORSUPPORTS FRANCHISE GRAB Ijiasmann in Cahoots With Water Co. Gives the Company's Side, but Not That of the Consumers. Manager Kircher Undertakes Denial That New Ordinance Will Increase Cost of Water, Then Admits It. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN May 21. Mayor William Glas-niann Glas-niann will stand In with tho proposed steal of the franchise that Is asked for by tho Ogden V aterworks company, which. If granted will glvo tho corporation corpora-tion the privilege of regulating the Charges for tho waters of Ogden river for the next fifty-ono jears. Mayor Glasmann announced the fact that ho Is standing In with tho proposition proposi-tion In this morning's Issue of the Examiner, Ex-aminer, when, under flaring heud-llnes htt announced that there was no proposed toal and triad to show that tho Ogden Waterworks company, which la shortly expected to ask for a franchise that will control for Its use the rains Of heaven, Is really a beneficent and a charitable organization lncorporab-d for tb n 1 of h- city In tho artlclo printed this morning, which In headed to make It appear that The Tribune's stories of two niornlnga ago arc not based on facts Charles H. Kircher manager of the Ogden Waterworks Water-works company Is unnoted to refute the statements made In these columns that tho proposed franchise Is outiageons In Its terms and ln the almost perpetual privileges H granting would confer on u private concern. In offering the news to tin- public The Tribune considered the consumers of the city of Ogden, and has tried to present their side. In atti mpting to refuto the matter, tho Examiner, Glosmann's morning paper, takes tho bold statements of the manager man-ager of the compan ln his Interview Mr Kircher denies that the purpose of the proposed new franchise Is to increase the rates for water. Ho states that stores In Ogden are charged from $7 30 to $13 60 per annum That Is his own language as glen In the Mayor's morning paper. Mr Kircher should know what he is talking about but here Is what tho ordi-n ordi-n in" that has been asked fur provides: ' Store or shop, $7.3y to $30." If ho Is correct ln saying that the maximum charge la but $U5o, Is not tho maximum charge of $30 an Increase? Mr. Kircher further explains that tho proposed changes ln rales are. If anything. any-thing. In favor of the consumer. "By comparison of the rates which aro charged at the present timo and tho rates Of the proposed ordinance, where there Is any change at all It 19 a decrease, de-crease, with perhaps two or three exceptions." excep-tions." And later on adds this. "Thoro are a great many cases where their rates nro going to be Increased, but tho Increase In-crease will bo very slight, ranging from hOc to $1.6a Although there may be an Increase In the dwelling houses and a decrease, de-crease, in their lawns, which ln most cases win be an off-set." To the average consumer this Is suggestive sug-gestive of an old game: Head I win. talis you lose. They are granted tho privilege Of saving something on the lawns, but they have to nay it back In the charges for their dwellings Mr Kircher does not say anything about why tho Ogden Waterworks company com-pany asks tho right to charge 30 cents per thousand gallons under meter rates, When Salt Lake charges but 10 cents, more than to Hay that the Salt Luke rates are much too low This will be welcome news to tho consumers of Salt Lake and will also create a certain envy in the minds of Ogden people. Two sections of the proposed ordinance asldo from the schedule of rates ure, at iagst, attracting tho attention of the consumers- Sec. 10. For a supply of water for any purpose not speclaliv deaignatefll a reasonable rea-sonable price shall be fixed by the grnn-tee, grnn-tee, its s icceasors and assigns. The grantee herein. Its successors and assigns, as-signs, shall hae the right to Met a meter me-ter on or In any building, and charge for water at mater measurement Instead of schedule rates; and consumers sh:i have the light tO have meters set at their expense, and pay for water by meter me-ter measurement. Sec. 11 The annual rates designated In the foregoing schedule shall be payable pay-able semi-annually ln advance on the first clays of January and July of each year, and the other rates shall bo payable pay-able at such times as .shall be fixed by the grantee herein. Its successors and assigns. From these extracts from Mr. Klrch-er's Klrch-er's denial of the statements made In Tho Tribune In. regard to tho proposed graft. It would appear that Mr Kircher both denies and affirms Ho states that tho proposed ordinance will reduce rate to the consumer nnd thereafter admits that It will Increase rates. |
