, 1885-03-14

Lamps OF 1000 candle-pOwer are used.
Extra lamps are kept adjusted, and i'm
mediately upon complaint, a poor lamp is
replaced by a good one A watchman is
employed to took after the lights all night.
A lightning arrestor has been found in
dispensible. The lightning in the spring
is terrific. One afternoon of last year
fifteen flashes came in over the wires. A
magnetic tester is used for testing for
grounds and open circuits. A ~galvanome-
ter and battery are used for testing for
poor connections. A telephone with a
large gong, worked by local battery, is in
connection with the telephone central,
and with the company's Office.
The lines are carefully rum; on every
block each wire has a small tin tag at
tached, giving the number of the circuit,
and the direction of the current. Maps
of each circuit are kept at the office for
ready reference.
Prices obtained for are lighting arc as
follows: Fifty cents per light until 10
o'clock; 60 cents until y o'clock; $I.0O
all night; and for twenty-five city lights,
burning all night, each and every night of
the year, 5000 per annum for three
years.
On each block-sometimes on every
two blocks-is located a small portable
house ILLUSTRATION given), in which are
placed all the batteries furnishing light
for said block. Apartition divides it into
two parts, one for the batteries and the
other for the meters and switchboard. A
plug switch is used in order that any com
bination may be readily effected. Gable
connections permit coupling batteries to-
gether as desired. An extra battery is
kept in each house for use, in case extra
light is required.
Three charging circuits aroused, tive to
private residences, where No. ! and No.
2 batteries are used. requiring from 7 a.
m. to | p. m. to charge them with
a 10 ampere current. and one cir
cult to the business part of the city,
where three batteries are used. Asthese
batteries are much larger a longer time is
required to charge them, and, therefore,
they fare charged from I a. m. until 3
o'clock p. m. by a 65-light dynamo. They
are then connected by switch, as desired,
for the night, in some. cases three bat
teries being connected for quantity.
At dark the charging circuit is looped
in with the all-night outside arc circuit,
and the charge thrown on about twenty
meters, and by the connections for guam
tE controls about fifty batteries; thus
they are left until daylight, when the arc
circuit shuts down. By this means the
batteries obtain considerable charge; they
are then disconnected and charged sepa-
rately during the day.
The following brief mention may be
made of the arrangements for lighting
special places:
At the managers house several con-
%venient devices are used. A light is placed
outside the front peak of the house, and
is controlled in the front hall. The cellar
light turns on and off in the kitchen; ono
bedroom light is controlled by a switch
close to the bed. Attachments are made
in two rooms for a sewing machine motor
which is a Griscom motor, run by the
same current as the lamps. Lights also
are placed in the coal house, chicken coop,
etc.
In the main auditorium of the Congre-
g%ational church-which in form is like
hat of a theatre-are three circuits; one
for a 25-light chandelier, the second sup
plying eight side lights, while the third
furnishes four lights foa the choir. Be
low are the Sunday-school rooms, class
rooms. library, and the pastors study.
Here, the ceiling being rather low. the
main Sunday-school room is lighted by sis
fixtures, made to bring the lights close t.
the ceiling, and they have porcelain conf
cal refectors around each setof lights; tn,
class rooms have similar arrangements
and in the pastors study a chandelier i
used.
Each circnit has a switchboard to turn
the lights on and off in convenient sets