The Somerset reporter., 1885-10-28
d. W. NORTHRoP, Mayor.
OFFICE OF ELECTRIC LIGHT Co.

OFFICE OF ELECTRIC LIGHT Co.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Aug. Is, 1885
DEAR SIRs Yours of the 18th at hand,
and we will state in reply, that we have
been running since the first of June, and
we are very much pleased with the Schuy-
Ter System of Electric Lighting. Their
dynamo is a fine machine and their lamps
are unusually steady aud free from flick
er and noise which other lamps are more
or less troubled with.
We have Investigated other systems as
well as the Schuyler, and | am free to
state that we are better pleased with the
Schuyler In points of economy, and sim
plicity and equality of light.
Yours Respectfully, c. o. CASE.
OFFICE OF HoLYoKE ELECTRIC LIGHT AND
Power Co.
HoLYoKE, MASS, June 10, 1880
GENTLEMEN In answer to your favor
of yesterday, would say, that this Com
pany is much pleased with its electric
plant. Our customers show their appre-
citation of 1t by their liberal support and
continued use; our city, its belief in the
system, by its number of lights and hear
ty approval of the change from gas.
The best though most remote card for
the light is the opinions given by travel
ing statesmen in our city, who all say that
in their travels they have never seen a
better and steadier light.
great many visit the city for the sole
purpose of inquiry and observation as re-
CARDS the light, and voluntarily express
their opinion that it is the best, if they
are Judges, of electric light.
More than one, interested in other sys-
tens, have unhesitatingly said to me-
Gone the President of an electric light
company that the Schuyler light cannot
be beaten in any respect. Parties inter
estcd in other lights dislike to acknow-
ledge that their light is not good, SO ex-
press their honest belief that ours cannot
be improved upon by others, to say the
least Yours Respectfully,
WIN. A. CHASE, President.
Middletorn Herald Nay %, 1885.
Mayor Northrop, Alderman Lewis, and
City Clerk Stowe, visited Holyoke and
Springfield last Wednesday night, and
made investigation of the electric light
systems In use in those places. At Hol-
yoke, where Schuyler Light Plant is in
operation, (the same as is being introduce
ed in this city, they were very much
pleased with the light, and found that it
gave excellent satisfaction to all using it.
The plant started last Fall with ten lights
and is now running one hundred and
twenty-five, and is about ready to furnish
thirty more, all of which are subscribed
for. The city has now about twenty
lights on the streets and has contracted
for fifty. Several of the merchants using
it were called upon and all spoke In high
est terms of the light. The gentlemen
returned feeling confident that we are to
have as good system of light as can be
had, and that all using it will be satisfied.
At Springfield the Thompson-Houston
light is in use, and gives good satisfac-
ton. A comparison of the two lights,
however, did not detract from. the good
opinion formed of the Schuyler light, or
any regret on the part of these gentlemen
that the Schuyler system is to be intro
duced here instead of the other.
MddletOrn Herald.
The electric light for which the city has
waited SO long, was tested last night. To
say that Middletown is fortunate in secur-
ing the best light in the market is stating
only the truth. While it was not expect
ed that the light would burn entirely sat
isfactory the first time tested, everything
worked smoothly, and if this Company
can give as good light every night dur
ing the year as it did last night, there
will be no cause for complaint. The alb
sence of the flicker and the dying out of
the light which is so perceptible in other
systems, was not noticed in these lights.