Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-02
ELECTRIC LIGHT.
PROPOSALS TO LIGHT THE UIrY.
A Proposition 60 Furnish Electric Light a.
Cheap rs Gas-The Maxim
LIGHT Co0silercd

A Proposition 20 Furnish Electric Light a.
Cheap Is Gas-Ths Maxim
Light Considered.
At meeting of the lamp committee last
evening, every membsr being present.
proposals were opened for the lighting of
the city for one year from July /. To
show the committee the quality of gas to
be furnished under the proposals asked,
the Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel com.
pany had the four city lamps on the east
side OF Centre Square come cted with the
gas main and lighted. The lamps on the
west side of the square wcro lighted with
gasoline. Before the committee met they
inspected these lamps, and when they
opened the bids they were found to be as
follows:
The Lancaster City Gas Light and Fuel
company agreed to light, clean and keep
in order the street lamps of tho city with
5 foot burners) at $31 per lamp, or,
If 4 foot burners are adopted, the same as
in many larger cities, S26 per lamp; the
gas for the mayors office, treasurer's
Office, station house, council chambers and
market houses, at SO per thousand feet :;
or, If awarded the contract for the street
lamps, at $1.50 per thousand feet and agree
to furnish all lamps and posts needed at
$18 each.
The Pennsylvania GLOBE and Gas Light
company propose to furnish the light for
street lamps Of sixteen. candle power, at
$23 per lamp if awarded tho whole city, or
$25 per lamp if awarded the contract for
those lamps not reached by the gas main,
and if the electric light is adopted for q
portion of the city, agree to relinquish the
lighting of any of the lamps that will be
unnecessary.
Tho Excelsior Electric Light company
agree to furnish one hundred single car.
bon arc lights and two fifty. light machines
for the sum of $12, 200, or lights and ma
chimes with engine, boiler, poles and wires
and place the same in complete running
order for the sum of SIG, ,O6O any number
of lights in excess of this number at the
same proportionate price.
The American Magnetic Electric Light
company agreed to furnish 100 lights,
machine and lamps for $500, steam
engine and boiler, GOO horse power),
"a. 100, poles and setting, $3.50, &c, 900 feet
of wire and stringing, $3.50 total, s17, 800.
15o lights, machine and lamps, S1S, $50,
steam engine and boiler, (13O. horse
power), 81, 900. poles. wires. sc. 81 ,312. so;
total, S25, ,062.50. 200 lights, machine and
lamps, S24, 900, steam engine, boiler,
poles, &C.. $4,000; total, S34, 900. $50
lights, machine aud lights, $50, 900, steam
engine, boiler, So, s12, 1877; total, s4s,-
The Maxim Electric Light company
agreed to furnish the city sixty lights for
one year from the time tho lights arc in
position, to be lighted all dark hours OF
the night during the year, to be supplied
with carbon, cleaned, repaired, &c.. and
all expense Of keeping them in good and
working order to be paid by tho Maxim
Electric Light and Power company. The
! said GO lamps to be located near the follow
ing points. (Here follow the corners Of
streets in which lamps are to be placed
The list embraces all points of the city.
The lamp most distant west will be at the
corner of Marietta and Columbia avenues,
north at the corner of James and North
Queen streets, east at the corner of Frank
lin and East King streets, and south South
Queen and Hager) The price for fur
nishing the light for these 60 lamps to be
SO, 400. Or the company agrees to furnish
the lamps, engine, boiler, wire, poles and
everything complete to start that number
Of lights for the sum Of ST., IT'S, and agIes
to give bonds in the sum of $40, 600 foI
the faithful performance Of contract.
The committee, by unanimous vote,
will recommend to councils the adoption
of the Maxim Electric company's PROPOSE
tion. The city will be lighted with 12t
lamps, which it is believed will be suffi
cient to light all of the streets in the city
and the annual cost will bo $16,S00. Ths
cost of lighting by the present system i.
between s12. 600 and S13, 900. The cost o
lighting 400 lamps by gas at s31 and The
remaining 129 by gasoline at S25 Per lam
would amount TO S15,G25.