The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-04
THE ILLUMINATION OF
CITIES.
The Street Lamp yielding to the
Electric ToWer-High Noon at
Midnight.

A trip to the beautiful city OF Au-
rors, forty miles west of Chicago on
the @. B. and Q. r. R., affords the
visitor a striking spectacle OF splen
dor end a moot impressive conception
of the revolution in the lighting oil
cities now in rapid progress. Ii is at
Aurora that We nave the largest and
most available illustration of the new
theory and the new system-the
electric tower plsn-of elevated Gen.
ters of illumination. which, while it
greatly increases the volume and
splendor OF street and city light,
causes the illumination to issue by
broad floods from a few fountain
points, instead of an endless multi
plicity Of gas Jets or appearances that
serve. like the starlight. more for
fancy than for use. The expert.
ment o! lighting the city of Aurora
by Brush electric tower" by NJ. @.
Bullock of this city. General Agent
for the Northwest. is one of recent
inauguration, AID inthe moral and
mechanical senses has proven.s most
brilliant success in economizing, en-
largipg and improving it's illum.
ination, and placing the citizens of
the town in q state of delighted en-
thusiasm over the splendid practical
results. Briefly the features of the
nes system consist of some six
Brush electric towers, stationed on
opposite eide of the river that some
what evenly divides the city, and at
distance AID relative intervals of
half mile-this Brush electric tow
er-s slender, triangular elevation in
skeleton lines, formed of strong iron
tubing, four inches at the ground
and one inch the top, and look
ing like the iron liues of a triangular
skeleton monument, tapering from a
wide, secure base to height of $50
feet-a graceful, even ornamental
piece OF engineering architecture,
looking, q little distance Of, like a
pencil drawing against the sky.
Each tower is crowned with two or
three electric lamps, equivalent to
2,O00candles or125 gas.iets each-the
cost OF the tower, under the Brush
patent, covering all electric lighting
of what ever height above roofs of
buildings, being $1,000. The united
effects of these great sun-lamps, as
witnessed By a Times correspondent,
accompanied by Hal P. Brown, gen
ersl electrician of the northwestern
agency in this city, were Interesting,
novel, and impressive to an almost
iudescribable degree, the districts i'm
mediatly adjacent to the towers
being bathed in q food of splendor
far higher in soft intensity than the
most brilliant system of street gas
Jets, while suburban ride of FIVE
eighths of mile beyond the outside
towers realized light as clear as full
summer moonlight lying abroad on
the fields and lonely outskirts OF the
city. The people of Aurora are an
iversalIy jubilant over the results of
the adoption OF the new System, and
express the most earnest and COM
plete satisfaction with the Brush tow
CT plan in all its bearings and aspects.
1t is comfortable, luxurious, econo-
mic, healthful. The first introduction
OF the electric light was attended by
apprehension OF deleterious effects on
eyesight; hut the cities thus lighted
supper! the theory Of Professor Cohn
OF Breslau, the highest modern au-
thority in experimental electricity,
coler blindness and optical diseases,
that the new light is beneficial, not
harmful, to the organs OF vision,
while letters, spots and colors are
perceivable a greater distance by
electric illumination than by either
gas or sunlight, the sensations of red
aud yellow being increased sixty-fold.
In the point of economy, the month.
ly light bill of the Philadelphia Post
Office vas reduced from 81, 184 (gas)
to 1854 brush electric ligAt)-an ex-
erience corresponding with that of
numerous great factories and mer
camille houses here anG elsewhere,
as Studebskor Bros. Marshall, Field
& Co., Willoughty, Hill & Co.,
Union IRON and Steel Company, and
others. One eleotric-tower lamp, fed
by soft coal at So per ton, gives
9, 000-candle light at q cents per
hour-a ratio of q TO Sc compared to
q corresponding volume of gss-!ight.
- Chicago Times.