CHEAP ELECTRIC CURRENT
Cleveland has two . electric lighting plants—one privately owned and one owned by the- city. Both- use. coal." The private plant charges 10 cents a kilqwatthour for household lighting, with a '75----cent-a-month service charge; tLe c ity plant charges' 3 cents a kilowatt-hour to such customers as it reaches—it does not yet cover the whole city. Tlie p r i va t 6 company's franchise expires next vc-ar I\lany citizens want; the city to enlai-'-'e its plant to cover all Cleveland. Tlie private company for years said a 5-cent rate was impossible. It-now offers, to adopt the impossible 5-cent rate, if given a new franchise- for ten years, so that the city plant will not be extended.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 146, 17 December 1924, Page 15
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119CHEAP ELECTRIC CURRENT Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 146, 17 December 1924, Page 15
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