The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-08
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The Brush Electric Light Company have
received 90 many applications for their
lamps outaids Of the district between
Fourteenth and Thirty.iOurth streets that
new stations are to be opened all over the
city As fast as machines and lamps can be
made in Cleveland, Ohio, Yesterday
their second station was opened It No, $50
BroSdWsy, with four aixteen.light gen.
Grading machines. Sixty lamps are 70 be
placed Immediately In the large ware
houses and stores In the neiEhboEhood.
The machines we're ready 70 work yestet-
day, and number Of men are now put
ting in the Tampa,
To-day the thlrd station will b opened
at No. 80 Walker street, 70 accommodate
the wholesale dry RoodS houses In the dry
goods district, the electric light having
been found 70 answer almost a well q
daylight In judging shades and colOls Of
goods. Four generators were placed in
this station last evening and will be con.
neCted with the engine to-day. The wires
will be run and the lamps put In as fast as
possible, the company having orders Tor
about Ave times as many lights o the gem
orators can supply. As last a. the lights
are put in new generators viii DO sent on
from Cleveland, where the lamp and gen.
orator mandatory 10 running night and
day, r.
0ne hundred and eighty Brush lamps
were lit last night from the first genera
ting station in TWenty.HlGh street, the in
crease in the number Of lamps being At the
rate OF about two Q day, The Madison
Avenue Garden Ia now lit with forty oil
the Brush lamps, OF cost Of 80 night,
an enormous saving % compared with gas.
The effect Of the light In the garden 10 ex.
celIent, 1t 10 not proposed 70 put Tampa
into private buildlngS; an arrangement
having been made between the Brush
Com pany and the Edison Company where.
by EdiSon's Tampa will be- used for
private houses, small halls, ETC., and
ths Blush lamp ior street illumiuS.
ton and large halls, Edison has
decided not 70 attempt street lighting.
Experiments are constantly made TO dis
cover the best kind Of glass shade TO dill.
fuse and soften the light, but 90 far with
little success except when Q Large amount
OF the light Is sacrificed, Atthe Afion ball In
the Academy Of Music the lights were 90
modified BY globes that they had ell the
soitness OF gasi but, according 10 the cleo.
triciAns, the loss Of light was equal to
seyenty.fve per centum Of the
light generated. Some Boston glass
makers are now experimenting upon
globes and believe that they are
working In the right direction.
The ground glass globes used on the lamps
in the centre Of Madison Square were
placed there Of the request Of the omnibus
companies, the drivers finding that the
light blinds them as they drive iAto the
square from Broadway or Fifth avenue. A
giant reflector has Just been placed over
the Brush lamp At TWenty.sixth and
Broadway, In order to direct downward
the upward rays. Il has not been found,
however, that the gain Ia imperceptible,
and,no others will be used.
Al q drug store under the Fifth Avenue
Hotel may be seen every evening the in.
est exhibition Of light from incandescent
lamps ever given. The store 10 liz up by
thirty.two Of the Maxim lamps and the
effect Ia almost too dazzling ior. comfort,
although the light Is a. SoR and as pleas
ant ~ that Of gas, and totally different In
thatrespeCt from the outdoor Brush lights,
More than the same number Of gas lets
were formerly required to light the store
with about one.third OF the same brilllan.
cY. The cost Of this illumination Ia about
three dollars an evening. As seen from
across Madison Square, the shop stands
out from all others on Broadway and ap.
pearS 10 be filled with light: