METERAGE
Superintendent George Cotter and City Manager Ashburner, of Springfield, O., have expressed themselves in favor of the adoption of the meter system. The City Manager feels that the city would be greatly benefitted from an economic standpoint and that consumers would receive more equitable rates with such a system. The meters in use now in this city were purchased by consumers.
It is planned to shortly introduce a bill before the Philadelphia. Pa., City Council authorizing the Bureau of Water to use its own discretioin in the setting of meters. This bill will empower Chief Davis to compel factories, saloons, homes and other places to install the meters where waste is found and will aid materially in the conservation of the water supply. Relative to meterage, a Philadelphia newspaper recently said the following, editorially: “After an active campaign of several years for the general installation of meters the Bureau of Water finds that only about one out of every eight buildings in the city has been so equipped; that the future rate, by which the consumer uses an undetermined quantity of water and pays the same price whether he uses more or less than his neighbor, still controls the major part of revenue the city derives from this source.”
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