National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-17

of expenditure by tie Government, amounting to
more than $4,000 annually, and that by the city
of more than $4,000, viii thereby be superseded
and become unnecessary.
1t is believed hatwhile the proposed system pos
sesses many advantages in economy, efficiency,
safety, and convenience the sanitary and aesthetic
benefits which il offers viii not be counted SIS
among the least of its merits and that the prOpO-
Sition 10 iuaugurate epoch in lighting cities
and towns is subject well worth the consideration
of Congress, especially ii is not often that al
opportunity presents itself for doing the like.
The company now offers to supply all the appa-
ratuS and structures, including such land as may
be necessary to secure by purchase, for the sum of
5S5OGOO.
Among these items ere included the following;
Four hundred and fifty coco candles power cleo
trio lamps at $50, $50 00; tliirty-sx large dynamo
electric machines at So 600 Sl29 500; four 500 horse
power steam engines. twelve boilers, and the
requisite fixtures and shafting. $4,000: houses for
boilers and machinery, $500; six iron towers
two 200 feet high, two $50 feet high, two 125 feet
high including lanterns, reiectors, elevators and
foundations, 5000; setting up machinery and
apparatus, including cost of subterranean wires,
S15,Gfs): land. $4,000: engineering and cuutin-
gencieS, S9,i00; total, S5500G0.
To The Senate end IIguse Of Representatives Of he
United States ia CoHgress assembled:
The Northern Electric Light Company, q cor
pOr}On transacting business in the city of Boston,
in the State of Massachusetts, respectfully repre-
SentS unto your honorable body that It has ac-
gurcd rights. under divers and sundry patents,
tric lights in such manner as TO produce therein
daylight by artificial means, that all parts and
places, both indoors and out, shall be thoroughly
lighted BY night wherever the natural daylight IS
ordinarily available.
Your petitioner further shoYcth that the said
system OF producing artificial light consists in the
maSSing and grouping of electric lamps. Of great
power, in such manner that light force is ecOnO-
mixed, and made to perform a larger duty than by
the methods of segregated lamps heretofore in
vogue; and now hereby offers to establish i'll,
upon, and around the Capitol, lamps, apparatus, !
machines, and structures, which shall produce d
light Of rot less than 2j00,OO candles power, In
such manner and positions that the Capitol and |
the city shall be greatly adorned and embelliShed,
and that all parts of the Capitol shall be lighted ~
night, to the extent and III the manner in which |
the same are lighted by the natural daylight and
in addition thereto that the said lights shall illu
inmate the open and vacant spaces of the city TO
such an extent that all persons can sec their way
anywhere outdoors without difficulty Is well rs, or
better than in broad moonlight.
Your petitioner respectfully offers 10 establish
the aforesaid SYSTEM and to guarantee the salts
factory working thereof, in manner substantially
as aforesaid. and upon conditions to be embraced
in specifications of contract for The said lighting
apparatus including ali things requisite therefor,
for The sum of $50 OOO- And the prayer of your
petitioner is that your honorable body may take
such action thereon as shall best SubSeTye the in
tereSs Of the people, ard maintain the attitude i'll
regard to and useful arts which has in former
days contributed to the good fame of the Congress
ofthc United States.
To this end your petitioner, as i'll duty bound, |
will ever pray A. A. POPE,
President the Northern Electric Light Company |
Forty sixth Congress, third session. H. L. 1872, |
Report No. 2S5.
IL he House Of Representatives. Fs5FWdIF H. 1881 |
RsaI tgire rer0Iniaitted to The Committee on pt,bc
Buildings Gad Grounds, and ordered 10 be printed.
Mr.. AthertOn, from the Committee on Public !
and Grounds. reported the following !
bill: bill to authorize the lighting of the Capt
toll buildings, grounds and so forth, by electric |
lamps"
Be Il eaarfsi by the Scrateand House of Representa-
- H. -
Sepbef That the Northern Electric Light Company |
OF Boston, in the State of Massachusetts,, be- and
they hereby, authorized TO erect the necessary
buildings furnish the proper machinery, erect !
towers, aud supply all the necessary appliances to
light the Capitol, the grounds around the same. |
aud the streets of the city of Washington with !
OH the outside of the dome of the Capitol but in |
such manner that neither their presence their
removal will mar said building or injUre its archi /
lectural beauty or style.
So , That they shall have the right to connect |
the said lamps with the machinery for generating
electricity and to run the necessary wires and con-
nscti0ls underground from such machinery across
and along the streets through the public grounds to
and through the Capitol to the lamps the dome,
ana To the towers. doing no unnecessary damage:
the To- be done under The general direction OF
The Superintendent Of Public Buildings and |
Grounds. All of said erectiOnS are 20 be made and
machinery and appliances furnished in accordance
Terms of = written proposition of said company at
Ich.d 10 and made part of the report of the Com
nittea Oh Public Buildings and Grounds which ac-
companies this act.
SEA-. That in doing the work authorized 10y
his act the said corporation may. where necessary,
dig ny, remove OF disturb the pavemCnts Of the
bic thereafter they shall restore the same at their
lWn expense in * good condition Us befor2 such
removal or disturbance
SIC !. That all the erectionS, appliances and
yO-k authorized by this act shall be fully com
pletcd on or before November l. 1881, and if not
hen completed the said corporation shall for
all FiTlf and elgn and
right and privilege granted tn them under this act
SEC ). That the Secretary Of the Treasury Secrc-
larry Of the Interior, and Attorney General Of The
'niteI States for the time being be. and they arc
hereby constituted i commission on behalf of the
government 10 ma e formal written contract with
he sad com pany for the construction Of said works
IN accordance with This act, and also 20 examine
"a id erections. machinery, connections. aud lamps
and When the said company give Notice that they
have completed said erpCtiOns, machinery. and
'yStem of illumination they shall take charge of
he same. and, by themselves or such experts as /
hey mSy employ, test Or cause them To- be thor
Jughly tested for the period of sixty days, and if
a id commission shall then find that said works and
;yStem have been i'll all respects constructed
n accordance with the contract hereby au-
horned To be made with them, and furnish light
)f the power and intensity mentioned IN said
propositions and contract they shall certify tina.
acf to the Secretary of the Treasury; aud upon =
Iced being rendered conveying said realty and ali
u said ereCiOn> and property 20 the United States
u America, the Secretary shall pay TO said
corporation the sum Of $4,000: Porijsd.
,rcctionS (Taluing the electric lamps az $50 each,
md adding ID per ccntum to all of said cost eX-
,cpt said lamps should not amount to said sum OF
$50 $50, they shall then pay for the same st prime
.OSt with 10 per centum added thereto.
SEC Is That to carry out the terms of this act
here is hereby c0ndit;onally appropriated, out of
my moneys in the Treasury not otherwise apprO-
,riated the sum Of S3j00O0 10 be available at any
Tine after June 50, 1851.
SCI :. That if, upon the examination and test
iOreSad, the said commission should determine
bat said lamps were not erected according 70 the
provisions Of this act that they did not furnish
ight of the power and intensity hereinbetore
and fnilei to light the Capitol
rounds and streets in the manner stipuisted,
hen the said corporation shall forfeit all rights
nder this act, and it shall. at its own expense,
yrthwith remove all of such erections, appliances
nd lamps rs are upon the public grounds or are
ttachel to the public buildings, and shall. more
yer. be liable for all damages that may have been
one to the buildings aud public property by the
anne. And in case said corporation neglect for
lree months after notice 10y said commission TO
emOvc the same, the Secretary of the Treasury /
hall cause them 10 be removed at the expense of
aid corporation.
SEC s. That this act shall take elect and be in
)rCe fruIa and after lis passage, $@sS