Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-21
TIE CIrY,s LIGHT.
Location OF the Electric Lamps Under
the New Contract.


on Jan. new contract will 80 into
effect between the CITY and the Electric
Light Company. twenty-five additional
lamps will be distributed around the city,
making, with those already in use, 100.
The contract is for i've years, the city
agreeing to pay $3.50 per annum for each
lamp. The lighting Of the city will there
/ fore cost S25, 600 year for the 100 lamps.
/ The city can at any time increase the
number Of lamps at the same rate.
For several days Superintendent Keck
has been busy putting up the new lights
which will be placed on masts from If
/ teen to fifty feet high. Where the trees
are thickest the lamps will be placed
within fifteen feet Of the ground, so that
/ the light can be shed under the branches
4 Where there are no trees the lights Will
be placed higher. There are now thirteen
towers with forty lamps, and thirty-eight
masts with a single lamp each.
The tower lights are located as fol-
lows.
Price and HUNTINGTON lamps, Wald-
burg and Abercorn 3, Bull and Gordon 4,
Montgomery and Bolton 3. Steward and
Wilson 8, Central Railroad 3, Orange and
st. Gaul 3, Waterworks ,, Exchange 3,
Bun and York 4, River and Ann .,
Lower Rice Mill 3. Green Square 3.
Slngle-mast lamps are now in use at
Price and Charlton, Forsyth park fOun-
tain, Huntingdon and Whitaker, CASTOR
and Barnard, Sims and Guerard, Lower
Cotton Press, Reynolds and BrOughtOn,
Randolph and South Broad, East Bound
airy and McDOnOugh, Jones and Jefferson,
Jones and Barnard, Tattnall and Harris,
Whitaker and Liberty, Barnard and Perry.
" htakeT and SOBth Broad. jefferson and
south Broad. Barnard and York, Mar
garet, Bryan and Ann, BrOughton and
jefferson, BrOughton aud Whitaker,
Broughton and Drayton, Broughton and
Lincoln, Abercorn and st. Julian, Aber-
corn and South Broad, Abercorn and
Charlton. AbeTcOrn and CASTOR, DraytOn
and McDonOugh, Perry and Bull, Bull
and Harris, Liberty and Drayton. Jones
and DraytOn, Liberty and Randolph, Tay-
Tor and East Broad, Taylor and Lincoln,
Lincoln and Liberty, Hull and Floyd,
Habersham and Macon.
The last three are in place Of the tower
that stood at Habersham and Liberty
streets. The light which is now at Whit
aker and Huntington streets will be
moved into Forsyth park. The light at
East Broad and Taylor streets will be
moved to the middle of the block between
Price and East Broad. A single lamp
will be placed at each OF the following
points; Lumber and Bay, jefferson and
Bay, Barnard, near the Market. Congress
and Price, Montgomery and State, Will
lam and Farm, South Broad and Price,
Jefferson and Hull, Charlton and
Whitaker, Harris, between Price
and East Broad, Jones and Purse,
Huntingdon and Montgomery,
Hull and Barnard, Cuyler and Bolton,
Henry and Barnard, South Broad and
East Broad, Congress at the southwest
ern corner of Johnson square, Hull and
Habersham, and three in Forsyth park
The park will be lighted by five lamps,
one at the fountain and one in each
corner.
Am improved switch board has been
put in at the electric light works by which
any ordinary accident to lamp or cir
cult can be almost instantly remedied.