Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 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 was organized some sixty
days ago and are now pushing the en-
terprise with an 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 cltl.
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 a ,mes 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-
dencee, rooms or offioes. 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,tric 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 year.
The generator, or dynamo ss 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 armature is oyllndri.
cal shaped 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
LARGE QUANTITY OF ELECTRIC FLUID
of very low intensity 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 On the
poles of the machine, as did 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 arc
q small, pear shaped glass containing a
carbonizsd bamboo, which Is placed in
an almost perfect vacuum inside the
globe When there Is current pass.
Ing through the lamps the little carbon
glows and emits the light which In this
plant are of
slArEEN CANDLE POWEhj
or 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 once.
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.fif.
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 hundred days il the
lamps burnt six hours out of the
tweuty four, bu. this average Is In
nearly every case exceeded. The av.
erage has been shown to be over eight
hundred hours. When q lamp Is
broken, which seldom occurs, the
carbon Is instantly destroyed and a
new lamp can be
ADJUSTED BY ANY PERSON
In very short time.
There can be no com earison be.
tween the Edison lights and the
present system of electric lighting,
as the Edison is dsAigaed 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 theater can bs turned
down as low as desired.
Qaite 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 offics 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 cf furnishing gas,
meters for measuring the electric fluid
are placed In every houss where elec-
tricity Is used, and when the consumer
is through with any one or all of his
lamps he turns them off, either all at
once or as he pleases, and when he
desires to light them he has only to
turn them on and the lamps are instant.
ly lighted.