Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-27
DENvER's ELECTRIC LIGHTS
They Give Complete Satisfaction to
Everyone.

They Give Complete Satisfaction to
Everyone.
Denver News.
The new electric light company has
already established itself In Its new
quarters at No. 800. Curtis street. The
company wa organized some sixty
days ago and are now pushing the en-
terprise with IN activity which shows
their confidence In the system. LAST
night the office was lighted up with
thirty Of the Ellison incandescent
burners, and large numbers of clti.
zsns called to see the effect Of the
light. The visitors were as pleased rs
the managers were elated.
THE LIGHT Is ELEGANT.
1t makes one think of the tabled soft.
ness shed from flames of perfumed oils
In alabaster lamps. The students
lamp Is the nearest approach to 1t, but
lacks Its strength. The present plant
has q capacity Of $50 lights, and the
engine affords power for double that
number. The company proposes to
introduce the lamps In any part of the
city when they may be desired for
lighting public building, private resi-
dences, rooms or %ofioes. The officers
are s. T Armstrong, general superin.
tendent; Col. VIM. Moore, Vice presi.
dent; w. d Todd. treasurer; VIM. M.
Cox, secretary. From the expressions
made last evening, there Is little doubt
that the new system will be q popular
one In Denver, supercediug both gas
and the old ele,trlc system. 1t IL
doing so rapidly In other parts of the
country, and the central office has now
orders which will test the capacity of
the company for q year.
The generator, or dynamo a. 1t Is
termed, consists, In this plant, of two
pairs of copper wound magnets ter.
minating In iron blocks followed out
to form the magnetic field or polnt
where the armature takes off the
electric fluid aud transmits 1t to the
system. This immature is a oyllndri.
cal shapsd body consisting on the In
side of iron disks bound together and
covered with copper wire In bands of
very low resistance to the current,
giving a
LARGE QUANTITY OF ELECTRIC FLUFF
of very low internally or force. This is
entirely different from any other sys.
tenn of electric lighting, aud insures
the perfect safety from fire and liabil-
ity Of electric shocks, ss the effect
even at the machine is very slight.
TIE writer placed his hands en- the
poles of the machine, as did q great
many of those present, without any
serious inconvenience. The principle
of low resistance In the generator,
adopted In this system, gives a perfect
steadiness to the light.
The lamps used by this company are
q small, pear shaped glass containinga
carbonizsd bamboo, which Is placed in
an almost perfect inside the
globe. When there is a current pass.
Ing through the lamps the little carbon
CLOVIS and emits the light which In this
plant are of
slArEEN CANDLE POWEhj
or o little above the ordinary gas jet.
The light given by these lamps, while
light and clear, has none Of the ghast.
ly effects of tho ordinary electric
lights, and can be turned off as the
consumer desires, either at each lamp
or all at onoe.
A noteworthy feature of this light
Is the absence of heat. The hand can
be placed on the lamps while burning
without any serious Inconvenience,
the heat being only about one.if.
tsenth that of gas, The consumer has
not to trim his lamps every day, as
the lamps need no attention whatever.
Their average lifetime, as guaranteed
by the company, Is six hundred hours,
which would be Q hundred days If the
lamps burnt six hours out of the
twenty four, bu. this average Is In
nearly every case ok ,esded. The av.
erage has been shown to be over eight
hundred hours. When a lamp Is
broken, which seldom occurs, the
carbon Is instantly destroyed and a
new lamp can be
ADJUSTED BY ANY PERSON
In a very short time.
There can be no comparison be-.
tween the Edison lights and the
p%resent system of electric lighting,
as the Edison La dsAIg aed entirely
for lighting ON the inside where a
mild and at the same time o pure and
steady light Is desired. They can be
adjusted for theaters as we'll as In
the ordinary way. Any part or all
the lights In a theater can bs turned
down as low "a desired.
Qaite a number of theaters, both
In this country and In Europe, are
lighted by this system. Among the
latest to be lighted was Haverly's
Chicago theater. The conductors of
this system are laid underground and
attachments made much the same as
for water or gas. The electroliers,
the chandeliers for electric lighting
are called, can be made in
ANY SHAPE OR PATTERN
exactly as gas chandeliers. Some of
the patterns shown at the ofics for
this lighting were very elegant.
Among them were table lamps, drop
lamps, side brackets as we'll as the
chandeliers. This shows the feasibil.
ity of the adoption of this system In
exactly the same manner as gas. AS
In the manner Of furnishing gas,
meters for measuring the electric fluid
are placed In every houss where cleo
tricity Is used, and when the consumer
is through with any one or all of his
lamps he turns them of, either all at
once or as he pleases, and when he
desires to light them he has only to
turn them opand the lamps are instant.
~ lighted.