Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-04
The New Electric Lights.

A Tcur Among Them-WhRt Is Said About Them by the COnsumers-QuaI1ty y and supply Warmly EuIOgiZed-The Lowell COmpRny-The LesSened Cost -57 Lights Already.
 A tour among the electric lights and in the supply house was made last evening by 8 COURIER representative to ascertain what is thought of the new electric lights and how they were liked by the consumers. To begin with it may be said that there was but one opinion expressed and that was unqualified pleasure and satisfaction at the lights. Ire first place we visited was the Messrs. Long, ley h Col where we were told by one of the gentlemen there, MT. Rockwell, that the lights gave complete satisfaction and were easy for the eyes; not being attended with the flicker and sputter which spasmodically attacked the old lights. The whole store was brightly illuminated and with two less lights than they had before when the old company supplied them. Next F. M. Brown & Co., s was visited. The immense store was brilliant with light which was in striking comparison with the stores not furnished with the cleo tric light. In the absence of Mir. Brown Superintendent Gamble of the firm was ask
 
 them. He said: "We like them 100 per cent better than gas. The light is steadier than with the former electric lights, burn uniform ly and without that painful glitter and some times alarming and surprising sputter. We think they great improvement. Just see how finely they show silks of difficult colors at night. See this silk with green shade Under gas it would be mistaken for blue silk, but you see there is no trouble under the electric light in showing the shade and it brings out the lustre beautifully. Now look at this light lavender shade of silk; also at this pink shade. There's the lustre! Yes, we like the electric lights and wouldn't be be without them"
 The next stopping place was Bolteu & Neely's. MT. Neely was found and said: Certainly we like the lights thoroughly and warmly approve of them. I was not in favor of them, but Mir. Bolton said we must have them and could not do without them, and I am thoroughly converted and was the minute saw the change. If you want to see the difference step up stairs where there's gas alone for light and compare it with dewn stairs lit by the electric We did so and found the great upper wholesale department looking gloomy beside the great retail store below. Mir. Nicely said: eve took the lights with the privilege of discarding them in thirty days, but the lights have come to stay. And we must have another for the Temple street entrance too"
 MT. DonnsIly, the assistant superintend- ent at Bolton & Neely's, said: 1.-The lights burn more evenly than the old, don't flicker and sputter, nor try the eyes as the old ones did. The light is fine"
 From here we went to the manufactory and saw the big complicated machines which make the electric light, the 120-horse power boiler, the two Huntingdon & Sims en- zines at work and ladies and gentlemen viewing g-outside the ropes-this won derful machinery and the production of this marvellous 18th century invention. We learned from the powers that be of the company that this light can be produced at a cost that will pay the Sompeny handsome profit on their investment. The Lowell, Mass, company came to the front Dec. 1st., with dividend which it he'd earned in the first three months of it's service, and the New Haven company's plant is an exact duplicate of the Lowell.