Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 29 | The Father of Cheap Gas

Tlic Father of Cheap Gas. ' LW In the dentil of Sir Gcorpo Livcsoy, London, England. lost ono ot her- 5Ll-on'g est and ablest business. mcy. Sir George was n specialist in tho xu& indutitry, and I was coiiucti'd from boyhood until tho ; ond of his life with tho South Metropol-itau Metropol-itau Gas Works, o which, in -time ho became the head. Ho was tho father of cheap uns in tho English capital, hav-in hav-in rj founded a sliding scale, under which tho dividends to shareholders varied in-vcrscly in-vcrscly with tho price of k.-is:1Io c.urriotl out n uveal experiment in copartner ship, the employees of his gas company haviutr been allowed to invest "nbou't H $2,000,000 in the company and to have three reproscntatiyas ,on . t)o ibon'rtl of directors-. Leslie's Weekly. H - UA , -:mmuummmm JTmM