The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-23
CHEAP LIGHTS.
Lamps Coming into General Use
-20,OOO sold Within the Last
Three 5lonths-Gas Meters Ia

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-2O,OOO sold Within the Las
Three 5lontlis-Gas Meters Ia
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Cincinnati Commercial. .f
BY actual count twenly'seven Of th'
fity.ous stores open on Fifth street be
tween Central avenue and Race. at hal
past s o'clock last night, were lighted b!
lamps. This among business houses, anc
on street where they burn gas for th,
name Of the thing, II for no other reason
would but short time ago have beer
considered necessity Along Contra
avenue the proportion Of business place
now lighted by lamps Is much greater
On Vine street also lamps are in use a
least in tive business places out Of three
Over the canal the proportion i. much
greater than that, gas light having be-
come in that region slmos, rarity. Sc
10 other districts remote from the busi-
ness center Of the city. In the corner
groceries, the small shops, in three out Of
four Of the saloons, aud private DWELLING
innumerabls, gas-light has given placs
to lamps. rtt
A single firm Il. T. Carson & Co. have
sold 5000 lamps within three months
A careful and moderate estimate places
the whole number sold in the city, and to
be used in the city, during that time at
10000. This is 10 addition 10 the usual
retail trade In lamps, and means that for
every one Of the 10000 lamp sold, one
lesS gas jstis used. We know this from
the fact TIA. the lamps have been Of a
kind that are readily fastened to gas fix
lures, and make itimpossible to use gas
from the Jet where one, Of them Is placed.
10 the center Of the bottom Of the lamp IL
small, round hole, into which, with the
aid Of rubber cup, the extremity OF the
gas fixture securely fits. The favorite
has been the BONANZA illuminating lamp,
which burns without chimney, and is
fastened TO the gas fixture, as above des-
cribed. Lamps requiring chimneys, how.
ever, have been sold in large numbers.
There is report 10 circulation that
during the same time-the last three
months-4,000 gas meters have been taken
out. The report 10 easily believed from
the fact tina. It agrees closely with the es.
timated number Of lamps sold. A meter
probably represents, on an average, four
or Eve gas Jets which are used, and hence
to light the 1000 buildings from which
the meters have been removed, something
near 10000 lamps would be required.
GAs>ftters know OF the change which has
come over the city. Work Is becoming
hard 10 get. oae firm, which year ago
had work for fifteen men, now employ
but six. ..- Ilaa 81 sH'E i
The saving effected by the introd uction
OF lamps Is estimated at from fifty to
eighty and eighty.6ve per cent. Accord!
Ing 10 the estimates furnished 10 the Fire
Commissioners (lamps are. henceiorlh 10
be used in the engine houses instead Of
gaS) the saving is seventy. five per cent.
one business man Whose gas bills used 10
run from thirty 10 forty dollars, stated TO
4 Commercial reporter that since he had
begun the use oil lamps his expenses for
lighting for the same length OF time, 10.
GLIDING breaksge o! glass, are not more
Than Geven or eight dollars, Quite mum.
Der Of others who have done away with
gas we're visited, and asked Tor estimates
as 10 the amount thus saved. None
placed the saving at less than Fifty per
cent, and some thought Il as high "a
eighty.hve per cent.
Tha Iioht a6o.dad n, a.. l....,. 4
highly satisfactory. No complaints were
heard BY our reporter, and several whom
he visited stated that they preferred the
light from the lamps 10 gas lights. Il IL
softer aud less glazing. Gas lights are,
brighter and more brilliant, but harder
on the eyes. No more lamps arc, required
% properly light room than gas jets.
The number used l. Usually tie same, a
lamp having been fastened 10 each IA
fixture. There Is no bad smell 10 The
lamps, unles, they are not turned down 90
low - TO smoke. Where headlight oil Is