New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-25
COST OF GAS AND ELECTRICITY.

The Aldermen received yesterday from stephen
report regarding the relative cost of and cleo
tricity for lighting streets Inc Guy mas las ot "a
electric lights; costing annually SIoo9 ~ z o.
The Common Council has requested that ZO93 ad-
dtonal electric ghs be put th IN use sc fspi Shg
will be $534,76l so year, while the gas lamps
over the same area cost $93.537 90. Should the
setI saS b ess4s
ing $70O,O70, and 1858 gas lamps costing
$3.50, $50 so. As the cost Of lighting the Twenty
$i05OGSG 90 Mr.. Mccormick says that it would
covered by electric lights. as there might be
emergencies which would compel the city TO nse
gas He has not discovered any advantage which
the electric light possesses except instantaneous
The Gas Commission is now considering proposals
from gas and electric light companies for lighting
the streets and public buildings for the year begin
In answer to Commissioner Squire who asked
whether electric light companies have the rlgDt 10
place additional wires on poles already erected or
to erect additional poles in order to execute any
Counsel Lacombe says that all companies control
ling wires must by the act Of 1854 before Noyem.
Der /, 1ss5. remove them from the surface of the
streets that this legislation prohibits the companies
from stringing additional wires, although they may
up to November l, repair those that are damaged
and that the companies now bidding tor the new
contract must act under this statute
SLAUGHTER HOUSES VISITED BY LADIES.
committee of the directors of tie Ladies Health
Protective Association visited the East SIDE
slaughter houses yesterday. A policeman was sent
by Captain Mount to protect them A number OF
children and loafers followed them from place 70
place with ugly looks and muttered slang, but the
blue coat aud the club were check to any at
tempt at violence. Some of the butchers were
profuse with excuses for not having made the i'm
provements required by existing laws, and with
promises that they would make the changes as
sneedily as possible. Others pointed out what they
Had INN mt I'm unable
recognize them such. Mr.. Fleischauer followed
them around trying to convince them with words OF
ferdinand SuIzberger of Schwarzschld & sulz.
berger at the foot of East Forty -hfth-st pointed
with some pride to yard In the rear Of ms slaugh
laid in cement. He said that his firm had intended
70 begin improvements for which he had the plants
on January 1, but the crusade OF the association
against the slaughter houses had made him fearful
that it would succeed in compelling their removal
from the city He was perfectly WHINE WI g 70 40 w and
make il healthy, provided that he would be assured
that he wOuld not have TO move; The only other
been made to improve il, was the yard of Mr.. Dona
hue. Many wealthy butchers have asked to unite
with the Association in an effort to secure authority
to build abattois of the most approved kind. pro-
vided that they can be assured of permanency in
their present locations The objection urged against
this scheme is that II would force large number OF
ANAL butchers out OF business
TENEMENT-HOUSES CONDEMNED.
the destruction OF the three-story lodging house No
Sc Ludlow;st. owned by Maurice O,BrIen, ana T. OF
frame workshop at Sixty-seventh.st, and Eighth
ave-. the buildings having been condemned on ac-
countof decay Examiner feler sent IN me ioIow
house in Seventy eighth-st, $50 feet west OF First
ave. There is cracked and settled brick wSr eo ~
stories als0 tho lntels broken and the founda-
wall has settled and Gace tbs wS hI
The rcputed owners are Max Danziger and Jacob l..
Mashke It was supposed that Contractor Budden-
sick erected the house.
PRIZES FOR FINE JERSEYS.
The four days special combination sale OF Jersey
Cattle by Peter c. Kellogg e. Co., at the American
Horse Exchange was concluded yesterday: IL was
breeders as the prices realized throughout the sale
while not exceedingly largo were on a business
basis and showed legitimate profit in raising fne
stock Bushes suffused the countenance of Peter
81 Kellogg the manager Of the sale. because OF the
many compliments heaped upon him to such an ex-
fenf that his auburp chin whiskers looked a
bleSshed blonde by contrast. The $40 animals