The Russellville Democrat., 1880-05-06
EDISoN's LIGHT.
The Inventors Latest Ontgiving on the
 Subject.


 Subject.
 N. Y. Herald.
 Reaching the inventors office after a struggle through the mud and rain, the reporter found Edison sleeping on the sofa up stairs. Not wishing to break into the dreams-possibly of carbon horse-shoes and gold tailings-that the tired scientist was enjoying, the reporter walked around for half an hour from window to window, and was astonished to see great number of new posts plant ed throughout the "park"
 Edison soon reused himself, and, in answer to question whether there was anything new gong on replied:
 Don't you see anything new your
 Upon being answered in the affirma- tive, he began relating what had hap pened since the reporters last visit as follows:
 'sYou see all those posts? We'll, I am having over seven hundred of them put up, and upon each will be an electric lamp. intend to surround the park with these gas-stock gravestones, and will have a light equal to one thousand gas jets. That, I believe, ought to be enough to convince the skeptics of what the light will cost and how it is man. aged. By the way, those lamps you see along the roadway from the depot have been very prominently mentioned throughout the country, and to show you what measures the opposition takes to influence public opinion, will tell you about the matter.
 A representative of the Boston Journal came here and found the lights out. That paper then published paragraph telling how the lights went out, and ended by saying the whole affair was a fizzle. The paragraph was copied into many papers throughout the country, and necessarily was received by the reader as correct. One very important fact did not appear though, and that is the lamps went out after burning on an average 800 hours.
 Now do not claim that the lamps will burn for ever, and I think that any unprejudiced person will say that a light that burns for nearly four months six hours per day, without needing regu. lation, IS not fzzle. The Journal has been very bitter against the electric light from the start, which was some thing unaccountable until it was learned that the proprietors were among the lagest holders of the New England Gas Company stocks"
 ''If your light is satisfactory to you why don't you begin to introduce it into New York City?"
 "That is just the question that every body asks. Why, if every one acknowl- edge d the success of the light, and were anxious to use it, it would take at least year and a half to get up station and lay the wires, etc., to light Canal street, between Broadway and Bowery I have not yet machinery enough to make the lamps in large quantities, and therefore it's introduction will not take place for some time. 1 believe in slow but sure work. The putting up around the park of the 700 lamps is but carrying out what proposed two years ago. When I pur- chased the large engine now in use did not intend it for experimental purposes because had smal one that was am- ply sufficient. When all the lights are gong the scientests of this country and Europe will be at liberty to make all the tests and experiments they desire"
 MT. Edison then accompanied the re- potter to the new station, where eigh. teen dynamo machines are being placed in position. The building is close to the engine-house, and the machines are run by large shaft turned by belting direct from the engine. In small room of the workshop Professors Bracket and Young were found hard at work testing the dynamo machines. They made one series of tests which were as- toundingly successful, according to Edi- son, and they were now going over the same ground with some new kind of apparatus in ordes that no error should creep in during the examination. As soon as the tests are finished and the lamps surrounding the park lighted, Edison will turn his thoughts to the supplying of this city. He says that twenty-four stations would be necessary to illuminate the metropolis perfectly.