Gas Industry Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...cubic feet for the first 10.000 cubic feet used in any month, plus 65 cents per thousand cubic feet for all gas used in excess of the first 10,000 cubic feet per month. Minimum service charge $1.00 per month. No discount. The new arrangement went into effect February 1st. The following appears as part of an advertisement in the daily newspaper of that section served by the United Electric Light & Water Company of Norwalk, Conn., and 67 Wall Street. New York City: "The new rate introduces an advanced idea into the gas business, although the same idea has been used in the making of electric rates for some years past, and these electric rates have proven very popular and very successful. So far as we have been able to learn, this idea has been applied in a very limited way by only four or five gas companies in the United States, and none of these rates have been designed to benefit the small residence consumer. In the application of this form of rate, we have gone further than any other gas company so far as we know. In this respect Norwalk has something absolutely NEW." PUBLICITY MANAGER FROM DAILY FIELD. II IF Montreal Light Heat & Power Company of Montreal, Canada, has appointed a new Publicity Manager, and has found him in the right spot. Naturally, the Utilities Corporation must do a large share of its advertising through the daily newspaper, while at the same time using its own means of distribution, and also the mails, but a large share of this publicity work must be in the daily press. Who then could be found that should make a better publicity man for a Utilities Corporation, than a newspaper man? Mr. Harry M. Williams, formerly of the Gazette of Montreal has been appointed to the position and it is a foregone conclusion that he will...