, 1879-03-22

Totnl..........,......... ............$7. aS2, 3B5
These appropriations Wcro exhausted, Of
course, the charges per lamp ranging from e25
TO 227. or late the ecrytcc has been far from
satisfactory, ccrtaln p.ris uf the city being left
in total datliuess long after III tho evening,
wl[lo In others tho qunsity OF the light was
little better than that obtained from tho old
fashioned penny 1p. Repeated efforts lavo
been nude to change from coal sas to na,na na,nntna
the board Of Aldermen held on the evening Of
tho lUtll inst, two reports were presented by
comsntttcu 10 whom Tho subject Of lighting tho
city had been REFERRED
Iioucst John " French rcportcd in favor OF
naphttn, mud offered a resolution directing the
Board Of CITY Works to enter int0 contract
with a Now, York ron1pany known as tue
Automatic Gas Lamp auil LiEht!ng Conf
posal,-yiz., s20.40 ucr lump fur q small
district, ur $lAS5 for the eBtiro city. AID.
Frene!l's colleagues In tug commisteo fought
fur .ha gus companies, aNd rt1ottet! ~ favor nf
lowed, III which AID. French claimed TINT
Brooklyn could not ufurti tn continue TO phy
FOR coal gas; thht thu approximation was Insult.
Client; lint the light ~as unsatisfactory; uld
tlst nm arrangement with the napfitla cotn0any
lion, but ,lo it at saving of s9o,ooY n year.
Considerable feeling was manifested by thu
Aldermen on both AIDES, os'o party inslsting
niellt was to conipa& tho gas companies To lower
tt.cr prizes, ami tho other charging fiht as tt'e
naplltIla culnpany Charge s4a,5o lamp III New
Jersey, It. would undoubtedly play some gAnc
stored AWAY autl thu new ones put in place.
Finally tue point WIS .n!scd tint neltller re-
port wns signctl by u majority vi tho Commit
toe, and tho tnnttcr was adjourned for a week.
1t came up ngnin As, lhe last meeting Of tho
Board, when several resolutions weTc Offered
looking 10 III unilcn,lo adjustment OF the mat
ter with tho gus GompFnles, but thy thSv we're all
voted down or withdrawn. Aid. O'Reilly-now
Speaker R4n.tnfI-was excused III ttie earlier
votes, On the singular p1ca that 'Io wVs irend-
" to both PARTIES aul didn't desire to Interfere
| with olllier," hut tho BuMrd refused to cxrllso
hiu, on the inhl vote, Insisting TINT he ought t'
| he made to 20 on tMu record aa well as lis cul-
| leagues: The vote when taken was Us foliows:
Alllrn,atyo-Ald. McCarty, Kane, MGintyrc,
| OCoinelt, Graham, an!lth, Prtry. Waters,
10. Nogatiye-Ald. Aiken, block, Stewart,
dunacr, o'Kellly, 10y, Aenua, Wilkins, Baird,
null Fritz-10.
Tl,u Automatic Gus Lamp md Lighting Com
broatlwayand Murray streets, In tbls city. Its
"warks" " ars small ,plnre on Cherry street,
but they con template !argcr oues ~ broolilyn.
Tie principal men In the organization nro John
President of thu CItIzons' 0as:LlEht Coinpnuv;
1lsc steamship agcl,t; A. W, Teu.cy, United
Statos District Attorney; aNt William Hester,
publisher Of the Eagle 1!oWsImpEr II was rlt.
inureA Yesterday that Judge Alexander AlcCne
NE4 Col. Ahnsr G. keeney were large purchasers
Of il.e stock. 'llIo Light Is to be tlio same as
now given III IoboIscn, Rochester, Orange, Btat.
en lsnnI, llrllKogDrt, nMl rittsburg, alsl tiie
Company eailn TINT it ia equal to sixteoI,.cande
powsr. I'hu cost to t',e city will be Saaso775
thu Invest possible cnsh pr!ca Of coal gas 1etn4
S!S53, ,025. Ills appropriation Of ls7D IL with
sMa surplus on hantD ss777, 10, but the appar'
ent surplus of s7!,Si! will bo necdea tor r.
must uf coursu he nut Tho Company will pro
ctrd ut oncu to erect, suitable works On rhtrd
street, III Brooklyn, and spy that they will he
prepared to furnish the gas by tho specified
nctlon Of the Doard, but the gns companies ar'
trnl III telr resolve not to uon,o luwh, 60 thu
sonlc now measure would seem to be noces
alty.