The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1903 Page: 1 of 12
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
THE OFFICIAL PAPfcK ur TO
The Chandler New .
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MOT PAPER PUBLISHED ft MM** rOBNTY. H. . «** .
twelfth year.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. JANUARY 22. 1903.
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Commercial Club.
TN ANOTHER column we have
1 mentioned the manner in which
the commercial club has taken hold
of the elecric light question. This
was done at the request of the city
council, which, very properly, pre-
ferred to have some sort of expres-
sion from citizens and taxpayers be-
fore taking any definite action in re-
gard to the granting of a franchise.
The commercial club offered the best
means of assisting the council in get-
ting at the sentiment in this matter.
This is only one of the many ways
in which an organization of business
men can be useful. The meeting of
'• the club last Tuesday night demon-
strated the fact that there is no lack
of live, important questions for those
to work upon who would advance the
interests of Chandler. One of the
other matters discussed at this meet-
ing was the lack of protection from ,
fire and the necessity of improving ;cur watt
wo As system. The insurance rates in Char, I
are very high and this condition can be changed
only by our improving our means of preventing
or controling tire. Several practical sugges-
tions were made, and being the erection o a
stand-pipe of sufficient capacity to give
needed pressure and supply- This, however,
would cost several thousand dollars, and we may
lot be able to do once. Another suggestion
..as that the city might keep an engineer a the
pumping station day and night and
„p all the time so that the pumps m.ght be
instantly when an alarm of fire is turned in. A
committee was appointed finally to
,o what could be done to improve the pres n
conditions. The city council and maVor h
given considerable attention to this question, but
have been embarassed in their efforts to reach a
solution by the fact that the city ^
,0 do the things that a.:mo. need «1 .0 be ^
It is certain, however, that mere
more needed by Chandler than the extending.and
improving of our water-worKS system. We 1ha
a" good a volunteer fire department as could be
found in the territory, and if they were given a
little assistance in the way of needed
and «ere given a sufficient supply of water hey
would afford such protection as would materia >
reduce the rates of insurance, thus paying in a
:hd„;, time for -he expense of the
cautions. Another matter discussed by the com
mercial club was the quests of free rura^de n-
,ry of mail in the country surrounding hand e .
The proposition to undertake to secure several
rural route* from Chandler received
approval from nearly every one present, from
,he report presented by the committee upon the
subject, it seems that our chances of success in
f itter are very good. A route inspector
will probably visit Chandler soon.
Hendettsed ifruth*.
-Have nothing in your homes
know to be useful, or believe to be ornamental
—Morris.
■ •Don't believe the world owes you a living-
The world owes you nothing. It was here fir .
Burdette.
"Somebody says that pollttn™ ^
cush on—there is nothing in it, but it
jolts wonierfully.
good deed knows nor age nor winding sheet ;
The centuries find and leave it quick and swe
Ir«^ront^Vee^,eheedbe8garbread."
HANDLER, having entered upon the second
O decade, is entitled to an occasional retro-
spection. The tcwn feels, with some pride, that
ts ay days are of the past. To.
this is true, yet some of the early lay customs o
the city of the hills are our contemporaries,
old settlers only can judge of the advantages and
drawbacks which those pioneer habits and <mv -
ronments possessed. The rat,f™
to view the evolution of the village. They are
here in lime to experience the discomforts of a
new town minus the compensating features o
early stages. For, dispite the privations and ne-
cessities of those days of the early ninetiesthe
old iay era possessed its charms and its compen-
sations. We still fall off the sidewalk and step
unwarily into ditches after nightfall.
;"th the bell is ye. the precursor of church socials
and public speakings. The man with hmgu^
;rwClsCrn™"e a
large general delivery population. But we have
mafl service by train to Kansas City andISC
I ouis whereas in former days mail and eap.ess
was via the Guthrie hack line (and no Sunday
mails) . and we have an ice-plant instead^0 -
pending on the native limited output of the win
Lr months. We have long and local te ephon
service instead of rumor (and yet we have the
rumor too), and sort of a water-works system .,
a good cotton and hog market instead of the old ,
' toilsome journey toGuthrie. Butthen again h
are some things we have not. Instead 0 th fre
and pleasant social life of the jay days there are
seta, and classes and formalities There used to
be union religions serviceawhich there tgious !tnd
irreligious enjoyed alike, whereasthe presenMe
circles and denominational ho-.ndar.ea All the
people had a good time together and in a som
way life was more entertaining than '
Ts less of the jay and more of modern pohteness.
Electric Lit •
o" .
AVERY interesting meetn ^ o
the commercial club was g l
Tuesday evening at the armor: #
had been announced that an e n
light proposition would be submitt
and considered, and a goodly num-
ber of businessmen and women were
in attendance. The proposition of
S W. Carver for putting in an e ec
trie light plant and furnishing a ser-
vice was read by the secretary. M •
Carver asks the city to contract for
the use of twenty arc lights for stree
lighting for a period of ten years a
the rate of $80 a year for each
light, and asks for a guarantee of
S00 incandescent lights for the first
month that the plant shall be in op-
eration. He submits a scnedule of
maximum rates for incandescent and
indoor arc lights which is fairly
reasonable, and he agrees that if the
city at any time desires to purchase
^?agmrened A was adopted by^nan-
imous V0^ ^^7rTty council should grant a fran-
^"l^Se restrictions along the lines
cruse, wnu rarver and suggestions
°t.rrfoT,'mee«n":for - electric'lighting
™stem There seemed to be a sentiment against
C guaranteeing of any definite numberof incan-
descent lights, but a committee was appointed to
circulate a subscription paper for the purpose of
ascertaining how many lights would be subscribed
for at the schedule rates. This committee began
work on Wednesday, but did not mee *'
Test of success, we understand, on account of the
feeling that the proposed rates were rather tug.
On Wednesday the Mascho Bros., of this city,
mad the offer to put in the lighting system on
made tne „ n«pred bv Mr. Carver, giving
the same basis as offere y . it_
a little better rates in their schedule, and omit
ting the demand for a guarantee of any defin
ting inc uc I. M. Thev also offer
number of incandescent ligh .
to put up a cash forfeit in the sum of $1,000 as a
' guarantee that thev will faithfully carry out the
tenns of the contract in the franchise is given
them, and that they will use nothing buUhe very
best mnterial-aline^-in the p ant. Ihiss^e ^
tn us to be a proposition the ^e y
i„pt. Chandler has reached a stage of tmport-
' Tee where some sort of a lighting system is
Absolutely essential. Many of our citizens are
in favor of city ownership, but a. this time our
city has not the money with which to put in a
^ and even if the money were avail-
able there in an imperative demand that it should
improving our water-works ^£
as to decrease danger from fire, and lower insur
ance rates. The proposition now pending will
ance raiet>. a ..v. r. r
give us lights within the next six month .
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1903, newspaper, January 22, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117644/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.