, 1880-09-12

Preparing for Another Test Of thA
Electric Light - The InFentor,s
plans. ''.s

/ and more will be added In short time. They
will turn off about 100 completed lamps = day
! for the present, but Mr.. Edison expects to IL
crease the number to 40
about Oct. /. He says that thers is no defect d
the construction OF the lamps; that the carbon
| tips OF Japanese bamboo are perfect and that
ment me- to see If it will burn; but Is to test, % =
large scale. its actual economy as compared
Mr. Edison hag4 not experiment with tie
| light for the past six months, but his time has
he oonmnereta ntrodaefon n Il shs - III i'll
10 ae and he oesf
economical ways for tashtoning than. he has
gone over hundreds Of times, his idea being, ha
viii, and to leave 10 Improvement to Be De.
| sired He does not want bis invention locked
| upon in few years as q crude effort in. = nav
held,' like tho first sewing machine and H.
OF the early introduction OF his light in tho.
| city the inventor speaks with positiveneas:
tie two districts IN which it is pfoposed % BE-
| gin work. The first district Is as follows: From
Peck slip through Ferry street to Spruce, to.
beginning. The second district Is as follows:
| Through Mail street to Park place, to West 70
Rector, to Nassau, to Spruce.
tho power viii be generated. This. station wia
occupy room about: 251l00 feet In size- Tia
building may be cheap structure ta tho rearM
chase money will not be considerable: Can
vassers are now at work in the two district
getting the % nanes ct tenants a Who r1 ~ ~ a tna
ers t Of large buildings are very ready %
have the experiment tried. As has been heEeto-
fore announced, the purpose OF the Eleeutc
light. light M. Edison says they expect to sell mose
power thar. light, and perhaps eventually to
make enough on power to be able to give 90
horse, and five horse, and seyen-horse power
machines. be- anticipates will be IN great d.
mand for keeping ventiators IN motion, swing
ing fans In restaurants, running seWing-m&-
chimes, and turning iathes and so on.
Since Nj. Edison has considered hts light as
successful commercially, he has given ita prac.
attention. He says that popular prejudtce and
custom are not the least difficult things With
fore, to make the new Light as nearly as possible
like Ras In its operation. His wny Of making
practical rest IS to Gull in q servant girl from
and aatPpoH poinfns 70 lamp say tight hal
turn it Cd; light It again" Every dldicalty in
the way Of the awkward expertmenter Is care
ae asz to a9a o 10 eg opte hs T. a Se8 s s9ss
Will show how closely he has studied these minor
matters, In making the first lamps he had bad
Of OF Ras sturs, n11D turn in he oppost direction
Everybody who took hold OF It Tor the etss
time tried tn vain to twist It tue wrong way. ~.
lighted precisely like those Of gaa-hxtnre. II
outward appearance, too, they resemble gas
lamps as closely as they can be initiated: 4. mad,
demonstrate ali that is expected, Mr. Rdisoa
says that the Company will be selling the Light
to consumers IN New York by The lst @ Jannss ~
ordinary commercial candle is the standard O.
measurement for the new illuminating power.
Three Thousand candles give The aEnt 'ase
of 10o0 feet of pas in fha electric light will COST