The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-07

The summit of each of these towers would
bc encircled by the most powerful electric
lights possible to construct with reilectors so
adjusted that their rays would cross in every
direction MS may be- indicated on the diagram
by drawing diverging lines from each and all
al tha locations of the towers. Church
steeples and other high points would be util-
lied for the scheme. The great diffusion OF
the rays thus brought about, 1t is claimed,
would prevent the casting of strong black
ahadows, such as now constitutes one OF the
prayest objections to the electric light and
would give a mild, evenly distributed light,
but of high Illuminating quality and much
resembling the SUMS Light in effect. 1t IS
claimed that in this way the entire atmos-
phere of the city would be illuminated with
light of the same penetrating quality as day
HohS,, which would fill the streets, alleys and
fetal illumination superfuous and putting an
end to all other devices for producing light.
The expense of putting such an elaborate
system into operation would be enormously
expensive, but the inventor claims that the
cost would be incomparaby less than what
is now paid for light by the entire commu-
nifty.
If such system can be carried into effect
the Imagination can hardly conceive OF. the
results that will follow Sunset will pass by
unnoticed, and there will be no twilight.
Through the night hours there will prevail
a soft, gentle light, like that which is said to
fill the long six months day of the Arctic
summer. Persons can take their choice ms to
what part Of the twenty-four hours shall be
spent in labor sleep or leisure. Business
can be transacted by night or day, rs may be
convenient, alike, when there is press of
work, two sets of hands can be employed
without trouble, in the summer it would be-
come general custom to devote the night
time to the waking hours, when it would be
most agreeable both tor work and pleasure
in the full light and temperature. The new
order of things would be specially favorable
for building operations, and much work now
carried on in the hot summer days with the
greatest discomfort, would be done at night.
Then, when the sun is going down, working
men will be seen with their familiar
tin-pails in hand on their way to
their labors. In the prevention of crime the
new system would be most efficient ally to
the authorities by the flooding of all dark
places with light; midnight robberies would
be heard of no more, breakings and enter
ings would no longer be chroniced in the po-
lice court records, the burglars occupation
would be gone, the attendant evil-doers
with their crimes would vanish from the
train of night, and the necessity for a large
night police force would cease to exist, and a
great saving in expenditure would beeffected
The scenes from the neighboring hills, or
from the harbor, at night, would DO enchant-
jngly beautiful; the city, with all its features
standing cut against the darkness beyond,
bathed in full white light and watched over
bya fixed constellation Of miniature suns,
while on misty or cloudy night clarifying
halo would fill the air above like an inten-
+, sifed milky way.
HOW COULD PEOPLE Sleep
May be asked. 1t would be an easy thing to
find some means Of daroening sleeping
rooms effectively without shutting out the
air, and there would still be the suburbs out
beyond the wall Of darkness shut in around
the citys iilumined night. But what effect
would unceasing light have on vegetation
pnd on other objects Whether plants
actually need stated period of rest, either
of night or Of winter, has been a mooted
question. 1t Is certain that in the tropics
trees have no season Of rest rs they do in the
winter Of our climate, and In the arctic sum.
mer they are exposed to six months daylight
at q low temperature, But the recent exneri.
ments by DR.. O. w. siemons, Just an
nounced, would seem TO settle the question
that plants do not need q period of rest at
night, but that their growth is stimulated 70
remarkable extent by Supplementary the
light OF the sun with the electric light al
might. Therefore, under such conditions a,
would prevail should the system under dis.
cussion be really introduced With success
some marvellous results In electric horticul
tnre might be looked for.
With a sum of $4,000 he claims TO b.
able TO demonstrate the praoticsbility of hi
7 scheme, and this sum has been subscribed BY