New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-14
USE OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT
WHAT THE COMPANIES ARE DOING.
STATEMENTS or THEIR oFFIcERs-rHE REPORTS
FNVOEi DLE-CoMpLAIVr ABOUT TIE EDISON

WHAT THE COMPANIES ARE DOING.
STATEMENTS OF THEIR OFFrcERs-rHE REPORTS
NVOEADLE-CoMPLATNT ABOUT THE EDISON
LGuT IL rHG FIRST D!stmCr.
Few per.un, not directly Interested in the subject
ore aware OF the oxfsnt 60 which the system OF
lighting bv electricity has been carried Within tho
last few months More particularly is THIS due with
regard TO the distribution of the new Illuminating
aqcnt over different districts Of the city from CEN
trail station in cucn district where tho power TO de
velap the electricity is produced The United states
Illuminating Company. which began active work
only n few months ago, now has five central sta
tons from which 1t supplies illumination by cleo
trlcIfy 20 stores Offices theatres, halls hotels etc.
AZ No. 300 fult0ust. thorc are pair Of double en-
eiues oil 800 horse power aud one engine OF TWEEN
tv-Gye horse power. This station has capacity to
HlpEly = 900 uClndc5Cent lights ami 40 large arc
lights. There IS II station III Elm-st., near heade-
ST., with capacity OF 80 ncandescent lights; one
at TWcuiy-htth.st. and SlXth-aye. tor 10 lights
aud IA FOurtgeut-St., opposite the Academy Ot
Music. for forty lights. The last mentioned station
Is only Temporary and 1t - INTENDED to dismhnte IL
and transfer tine service to the station IN Stanton
St.. east OF the BOwery Tho latter station Is lifted
no thoroughly and will have when finished two
raIrs of double engines of 600 horse power each
and ten boilers which can be run up 70 40
horsepower each. Tho present capacity OF the
that will be COubied when the station II finished.
Living on the OOr OF the GGgine-ruOm in this station
a Il Y
the twenty-ton liy-wheel OF the engine now built.
This is probably the largest in the country. IL Is
l2J feet long and 90 inches wids ana weighs 500
pounds. This company VIII also have another sta
ton furnished by December !. Il is ia Forty.
fouith-sl.. east Of the Grand Central Depot. and
will contain engines of 800 horsepower. The total
capacity of the compauy's stations when completed
viii run 2,4OO lights OF eighteen 10 twenty candle
power.
ave are now furnishing from our stations" said
Mr.. Lynch, president OF tho United States Com
PauY. " JJO nCandescent lights. We have under
contract 30 moro IN the vicinity OF Nail-st., in
Washington Market and in Broadway from Bar
clay down TO Wa-st. Applications have been made
for some $40 To 900 more lights. It will not 10
long before we will be able to supply further
lights with our present plant. We supply also 8
arc lights, including seyenty-twO, Co the city. At
the American Institute Fair We have eighty arc
aud 300 incandescent lights. The company has
14l miles of circuit wires and 200 poles the
cty-a pretty large system for growth of only SIX
months. And we pride ourselves On the fact that
there has never been an accidentwlth our Weston
machine
AZ hat are you doing under the isolated lighting
system -
sour business is constantly growing We have
Just taken orders to supply tiXty InCandesCent
lights each on five new iorrybOats built for the
Pennsylvania railroad. two of which are not yet !
fnsEed and on two ferTyboats building for the
Ncw-York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad. In !
this city We have $50 arc and between 700 and |
800 ncandescent lights under our isolated system
ItIs understood that the Brush Company has !
suspended further actiye operations pending the !
experiments OF MIR. Brush, the inventor with re- |
gard To the storage OF electricity. Should these |
be successful the company proposes to furnish !
establishments with electrical rcscrvOlrs which eau
be filled with electricity during the day or night
without any increase in its plant. by using the
power rom the two present stations that Is not re-
qulrel for the day service OF the company. An !
officer OF the Brush Electric Light Company said
We have exhausted tho capacity of our central |
stations anu can put IN no more lights unless we /
increase the number of our stations. That we do |
not care to DO at the present and va make no !
boasts az to the future All our customers say /
hey n AZ ali v-i g.rV q IL
ply the city it'll sAty-segen lights we furnish |
2ti day lights in large stores like II. Is. Clain x |
Co.'S and Leaf. Weller Co.'S, and we have nearly /
700 night lights"
1t having been recently, reported that
the subscribers OF tho Edison Company,
which began the operation OF its system /
OF a general distribution of illumination IN |
the First District early In september. not sat
isiiod with their new light. tEBUNE reporter re-
Gently made inquiries in several OF the places of
business situated in the district. The PROPRIETOR or /
store IN NH5sau-,t. above Fult1n-st said that the
lgnt was liza bic 10 grow dim at times this had been
explained to hiin AZ being caused by experiments
which were made at the Fultun-St. station OF the
company lie did not think that the lamps gave
IA much illumination as the same nunHer OF gas
lights would give. At another srore near Fulton
and Clil-sts. here The Edison lamps arc used, one
of tho proI rietOrs said that he did not think that
the light given as bright gas by about
one-thr1. taking each 1s-burner rs corresponding
with one of the electric lamps. lie added: OF
course the light Is healthier than gas n n does not
consume thc oxygen IN the ar, hut / should NOT
want our gas-iNturc3 taken ont until the ciectrlc
syS en- Is more hs3uTeulV established. W e nave /.
been also bothered "A little by the electric HSut /
growing very red and dun At another fultou-st.
store the proprietor sad that the ll2ht given 10y the
electric iumu, was not quito 50 good as Gus. d" We .
ike 1t better tnan gas" ho added, because it
doesn't cost rs anything nowW AT SILL another
store il stated that the company had been run
ming ITS lights at only twelyc-candie instead OF tue
STANDARD twenty-cIndio brAiaHcy because the
machinery hau not been perfected. 80
far ~ IL went however, the light was perfectly
aud 1t was bound 10 be success III
tluc.
CALVIN Goddard, secretary of the Edison Electric
|. ieht COMPANY said regarding these complaints:
- All the trouble has arisen from our beng able 70
run only one enAno at our fult0u-5t. station. and
that has been taxed beyond its capacity to furnish
power. We nave been running 300 0nps by this
en- jne when 1t WAS designed to run only about
] 200 lamps. with l,rOO its maximum. The
difficulty nas been purely mechanical. All the
electrical conditions entirely satisfactory aud
mi cuual 10 our expectations III every way. The
engines we have not been able TO govern uni !ormly
but IN few days expect to start the whole SIX
engines which wei have for the First District, aud
will proceed with the work OF connecting the
houses OF our subscribers rapidly. The necessary
apparatus is ut the station ready to be connected