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ual debenture instalment} ich i is the sum considered to cash and Rta accounts, sufficient t of Seo on a kan of $1000 we had to make pr d a year as igri, the og be paid. We. are not : ; a, BOE Tel : of 1911 into this year. 4 : : ] Tre i necessity borrowing i in 1910, possi- = : ai 4 by some Separation: 'may be req , suffice it to say that it € most expensive year the Power House has had since : rally got running, for the following reasons: You will n January, 1910, " 'Raymes resigned. Mr, whom we owed about $300), who had gone to there severing his connection with the hus a situation developed that demand- wig appointed, vested with: considerable to' stud the requirements apd having economy and is committee was guided the advice of Mr, H. E, Large, o was gent down by the Cana- its findings by : hy ian engineer erience w dian General Electric Company. He set out as a prelimin- f ary Progiam the following suggestions: To get a steam engineer who was also an electrician, him with iy ; 0 put copper tubes in the hea er in place of theron ones that were givin trouble. 2 ; Pemberty injector, as'a sedond feed to e pump failed, the condenser, which had been discarded, jt with both steam pump and engine, and in] such a position that the exbaust steam first passed through the ha on-its way the cond: nser, and so that the con: denser overflowed into a 'hot well, from which the boiler could be fed, either by the injector direct, or by the boiler feed | pump, through the heater 5 Toinstal metres. 6 A number of minor details not interesting enough to i _ Every one of these suggestions has been carried out, and every case the expenditure is fully justified. Particularly is s true in the case of the condenser, rescued from the scrap the following, table showing cost of fuel each year Sik yur, will prove. The cost a o11 shows a savi ge of $352.80. HM any of: 'your readers stil kno " " the condenser, 1 hope you. will give them to do-so, with permission for me to reply. The proof the eating, and the coal bill tells hg tale.' 'of fuel, the engine pump work better ould be be better to use it, even : Te of fou Tl ednedar, Tye Sh Febiunty dest, m M0. By order of the Hoard, Toronto, 21st December, 01% With ¢ care you can go on till something | tarns up, the Seymour Power Co., which is running ita limes. into Whitby amd from citer way in ease of u break, by a line which wonld naturatly come through Port Perry. ' The value of this connectoin would depend almost entirely apem the terms of agreement which your Council would be able to effect wilh the Company, They are reported ss being open for a fair deal, and your Reeve already has been in correspondence with them, Failing this, the alternative Is to ran on as you are till 1916, whew the last of the Railroad Debt will be paid, and the payments begim em amalgamated debentures. Instead of preparing to meet these payspeute from taxation consolidate them with the outstanding Waterworks Debem- tires, which will then stand at $11,156, add a few thousand dollars asi re-issue for 20 or 25 years. 'Chis would mean only & small anpual pag- ment which the E.L.&W.W. should be able to pay from profits, Wea thé additional money borrowed, instal the modern machinery of that day, in the place of our present. primitive equipment. 'I'here are now on the market several types ot engines capable «it producing power at home as cheaply as electric energy generated Sgy water power can be transmitted (rom a distance, Who can say what improvement will be made in these types in five years? » The best reciprocating steam engines do not develop and deliver more than 107, of the power that is shovelled into the fire if the shape «lf coal, mechanics, have their energies directed to cutting down this terifiic Smee of 90%. Fame and fortune await the discoverer. Economy, the sommes of wealth; and Necessity, the mother of invention. are urging them oa--- who is there to prophesy the result? WATERWORKS In the meautime, my advice is to protect your homes by extesdi- ing the water mains. Let the cement walks lay' over for a year, aes 'spend Bay from $2,000 to $2,500 on putting down pipe: having i wise those streeets that Teed protection and are willing to pay for it, that is €e say, those streets, the residents of which will sign up to take water em their premises, provided the main is run on the street. About three or four hundred dollars additional revenue might te obtained for the E.L.&W.W., which would compensate for the additiomsl pumping, and the town would get the protection for the vXpenditaee. The following and subsequens years about one block uf main cout be laid to eaeh four blocks of cement, and in a few years we woubd Gwes both walks and water. Remember, a house burned in Port Perry may never be relat. In conclusion, let me say that the success of 1911 is due i =e small measure to the painstaking efforts of the engineer in chaps, Mx. R. J, Tinsley. Bince coming here in 1910, Mr. Tinsley has embed, bought property and furnished a home, and is now a full-fledged citimem and ratepayer. We hope that he may long remain to run the power house with his assistant, Mr. Jos. Stout. Yours Very Truly, H. G, HUTCHESON. ELECTIONS In Port Perry there was no election, Council by acclamation. going Am The following was the result in Reach Township ov & 113: 5 oO = = 08 a @ ' Reeve Dep.Reeve Councillors 1 74 29 19 8 67 69 28 230 2 42 41 35 4% 61 40 0 41 3 22 24.27 13 20 12 16 97 4 14.88 37 BS 43 921 16 90 5! 19°69 62 17 3 2 57 8 49 30 91 39 O71 47 22 y 4 RE poss 9 10°87 nk 18 44 aves Codeine, Messrs, Deum; Joh "There are at least two sonrees- from which this may come: ous 46 Lindsay, and whieh may desire to conmeet the ends, 40 as. to send power The best brains of the world, working in the fleld of &pptieidl, Countll-Regve, Alex Lek: Deputy 4 nia