New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-05
Remsen Eltate $4,000 ; J. LOwher Welsh. $25,OOO
Adam A. Warthman, $i37. Total, S3S5.SF 3d.
T1LK WITH MR.. EDISON.


WHAT HIS COMPANY is DOTNG-MAKING MONEY AT
PRESENT.
Thomas A. Edison was asked yesterday by q
TRIBUNE reporter for reply to the assertions that
his system of electric lighting in this city once more
had been indefinitely postponed. MIR. Edison
showed not the least sensltIveness to the criticism
brought to his attention, ms he answered:
mo date whatever has been officially announced,
to my knowledge for the opening OF the first OF our
districts for electric lighting. l suppose that IS
what orr critics refer to- We have issued no clrcu-
lar ostDOning any anticipated date OF beginning
OPERATIONS. We are now working ut the building
OF the mains and the service pipes
which connect our customers WIN the central sta-
ton We have been delayed, IL IS true. III one
way and another III opening the first district we
would give orders for the manufacture oil boilers
and the firm would burst up, and then we womb
have To 90 10 somebody TO have our orders hled
And if il not one thing 10 was another, anu de-
lays would constantly arse when We ourselves
a great deal of this sort of trouble by making our
own boilers hereafter. Yesterday | was over
III Brooklyn buying land for the site OF OF
orr new boiler works. Our purchase IS
In Williamsburg; the property covers two acres; IL
is about two blocks from Pratts oil works. The
property owned by Conel Hunt, believe; he
ninety years DID, and has held the land since lo3O
There il Is covering five blocks, situated right IN
the heart of the cIty-surrounded by big, tall bulld-
Ings. On that land are gong to erect extensive
foundrics, boler-Shops and tube works. our
orders are already out for our boilers, pipes
and tubes. and will be filled, of course. But
when our new WORKS are up, we Will not depenu
upon other people; when we are going TO open n
new lighting district we Will know what we cah 90
ourselves and will not be disappointed IN our ar
Engagements.
How can anybody talk about hearing q great
deal of the Edison system continued MI Edison
" and it never being ready for the pubic We nave
10000 isolated llgnts IN operation IN thls country
lights not MANAGED by our own
euq5-eers lint by those of our
customers And the number of lights is being con-
stantly increased. he best evidence OF the nght
amounting to something land here genial. SELF
satisfied smile Illuminated Mr.. Edlsons face, as II
his own electric light had been turned upon III Is
that our company Is making money! We are COLI
tlnually filing foreign orders We are now en-
gageu III filing an immense foreign Order amount
ing TO nearly S60O,OOO The ilgnts are intehu9i
tor Italy, Russia Holland and England. AT the Ola
Etna Iron Orks, formerly owneI by JOhn itOacD
we Manufacture Onr dynamo machines we are
now making six large general distributing s,eam
dynamos. each of 1.4OO 16-cIndle-ght-power
1 wO of these are Tor Milan; they are lotenued 10
hgnt the great La scala Theatre there. We have
our chandeliers manufactured by BeIgnann
81 Co They have recently bought
the property ID Ayenue-B formerly owned
by the United States Electric Lighting Com
pany. The property originally cost the latter COM
pany 1878. 900; II has been sold for, l believe
a1out $4,000. Then III East Newark we nave
works covering about seven acres where we M I,
facture our lamps, besides the old Etna iron WORKS
aud the works we propose TO put up Ill VIII
laInsburg." ~ . -
first district in which yod will operate your hight
ing system from general centre VI distribution Oh
power " asked tue reporter. 1880 49,
II is impossible to say definitely DIT. Eulson
replied ~ hope to open he first district on sep
TENDER |. But don't Tx the date definitely. IyOu
do YOU may invite criticism upon us Tor further de-
lay IS hen IL Is not meTlted. don't know whon We
will really be ready. Ii Is not true that The details
of my system have gone Though considerable
changes. he changes nave been lew and small
and " ere all IN the direction OF economy. You cart
expect 10 ). art a general lighting system at once
when it Is one which Is going 10 wipe out millions
of capital invested III gas companies. Wait ana see
what our system will amOunC 10 when we are all
ready to start"