Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-24
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
A Temporary Arrangement Erected win
the Telephone Company.

| the Ielephone NosssPy'
The parties engaged in erecting the lines
and wires fof lighting the city Win electric
lights have been making very strenuous et'
forts TO push the work TO completion and
now expect 10 be able to light the lamps
experimentally, at least, this or tomorrow
evening" One Of the officers informed our
reporter that constant difficulties had been
encountered In the efforts 10 establish the
lines, the most serious being the injunction
obtained BY the Western Union. The com
pany, having ordered its material with a view
of running on Main street, could not adopt
the plan suggested by the Western Union
of running the main circuit on Columbia
street and throwing loop up each square
Ia Main street. As such course would have
required hundred additional poles lob
tainable only in Michigan. and involving a
delay Of two or three weeks), besides other
equipment which could not be readily Oh
tanned After the decision Of Judge White
and the issuance of the second injunction
from the u. S. court, an arrangement was
made with the telephone company whereby
the use Of its poles on Main street was
granted for the electric wires, the
officers of the telephone company very
generously granting all the facilities at
company 70 complete its project Since
then work has been progressing rapidly, the
force of men being frequently engaged un-
til three o'clock in the morning. either
placing wires and hanging lamps on the
streets. or completing the necessary ar
rangements at the station.
uhe company have about completed a
new brick building adjacent to their old
station and have received three new dynamos
leach costing $4,000. while a new engine
and boiler will be at once added to the
equipment. and fifty-fire commercial lights
(the full capacity at present OF
the dynamo) are now burning. the
company not being able to fill
orders now on file until additional facilities
are furnished.
4 visit to the station, while the dynamos
dit vi pptIdtivu, diiu tiiV VNNtiN" 'uiitht
is being generated and speeded on the
wires. is full of interest. while the very
equipment shows that the light is
not regarded as an experiment. but one that
has come so stay. At midnight, while the
new lamps were being tested, eighteen
equivalent to 5000 candle power)
We're burning at one time in a small room,
making the surroundings SO brilliant that
the moon might well have cause for
jealousy.
The secretary spoke in very compliment
tary terms of the good will and enterprise
of the very many citizens who have extended
favors to the company in cheerfully allow
Ing the erection of poles, trimming of trees.
and placing of guy ropes. remarking that
the instances were but few when any Oppo-
sition had been encountered. He felt quite
confident that while the fight of the tele
graph company had caused delay and been
a source of expense and annoyance, it had
tended to secure from our people warmer
interest in the new enterprise, and in a
number of instances had secured the com
pany favors which otherwise might not have
been extended.
{ Each of the lamps which will be hung in
the streets is a marvel of mechanism, two
carbOnS being arranged to burn in each till
midnight, when instantly their place is
supplied by fresh ones. which
burn till morning. The cost of each lamp
Is $50