Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-12
More Light.

Electric Lights Once More Shall the
 City be Lighted With Them.
 The new Electric Lighting company have located their plant on Temple street, near Grown. The engines, boilers and connec- tions have been put in and the dynamos have been shipped from the factory at Lynn and will be here to day probably. The system to be used is known as the Thompson and Houston of Boston. It is very highly rec commended and is being employed extensive ly all over the country. The first prize was awarded it in Cincinnati and Louisville, as being the best arc system. The plant located here will be sufficient to furnish 100 lights and more if required. The num- Der to be put in at the start is somewhat more than 50. The work of lighting will be begun sometime this week only day or two will be required to com. plete arrangements after the dynamos arrive Merchants and people generally have missed this light and will hail with delight the an- nouncement that the luminiferous currents are once more to be set in motion.
 With the introduction of the light into the stores comes up the question, shall our streets
 
 whose population and wealth are not nearly equal to New Haven's are doing it. Hart ford has just given an order for about 20 lghts Springfield has ordered 36 and Albany 300, the whole city being lighted with them. The western cities very generally are using electricity, including Akron, Ohio; Day ton, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and many others that might be mentioned. There is general feel ing in this city that the streets are not lighted sufficiently. Anyone who has business off the main streets on dark nights such as last night was can appreciate the fact that little more light would be grateful. In this re- spect New Haven is not quite as well accom- modated as city of it's size should be. The question is can the city afford to put in the electric lights? -.
 The committee of the Court of Common Council on lamps, composed of John Clan cey, Richmond w. Armstrong and William A. Waterbury, held 8 meeting last Friday evening" at which several gentlemen interest ed in the matter of electric lighting were present and the matter of furnishing the city with electric lights was dis cussed informally, and the commit tee quite generally expressed their opin- ions as favorable to the idea, provided, al- ways, that the question of expense can be satisfactorily settled. That electric lighting is more expensive than gas is unquestionable. Whether the advantages to be derived from electricity will compensate for the extra ex- pense is the question which those in author ity must settle. On rough calculation based upon 8 district in the city where 175 gas lamps are now used, it would cost about double the price paid for gas to use electric ity, but allowing sixteen candle power for each gas lamp and 1 ,5Oo candle power, very estimate, for each electric light, and the cleo tricity would give over twenty times the amount of light that the gas lamps do. The advantages of having more light, such as greater convenience both to strangers and residents, the aid to the police in detecting criminals and the prevention of many crimes that take place under cover of darkness, and others which can readily be thought of, make it question of weight not to be dismissed without serious consideration.