Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-07-14
Electricity in the House.

"What is the cost of electric call-bell
annunciator systems for house and
Officer" asked reporter of Il dealer in
electrical instruments the other Gay.
The prices given were $345 for a hotel
of 100 rooms; $780, 40 for office store or
factory; 5000 for n dwelling of ten
rooms, and $50 for an automatic house
burglar alarm with eight indicators.
For the hotel the estimate was: Annun-
ciators and bells 5000, 100 push buttons
$50, four cells, battery and box, So;
wire $40, labor, etc, $50; for office,
store and factory, eight bells, $2S; eight
push buttons, $40; battery SO, and
wire and labor $50; for the ten-room
dwelling, annunciator and bells 1874,
nine push buttons 1910, one door-pull
$3.50, battery SO, wire $4, and labor
$1S; for the house burglar alarm, an
nunciator with bells and nine switches
$32, battery SO, eight door connections
$12, l6 window connections $32.
"Gas-lighting by electricity has be-
come another great convenience" ad-
ded the reporters informant. las APP
piled to private residences it is OF two
systems, the pendant and the automatic.
The latter system embraces several
kinds of burners, the one most general
" in use being the rachel. 1t obtains
its name because it has rachet-wheel
governing a stop-cock so arranged with
pawl and spring that one pull OF the
chain turns the wheel one notch for
ward, bringing one of the gas-ways OF
the gas-cock in direct line with the bur-
ner gas-way, thus turning on the gas,
and, at the same time, through electrl-
cal connections, lighting it. The next
pull of the chain turns the rachet-wheel
another notch, and the gas is turned OFT.
The plain pendant differs from the other
in that it does not operate q stop-cockv
but simply lights the gas after it is
turned on by the ordinary key. 1t is
especially useful in stores, or in the
kitchen, where the rachet-burner is not
necessary, and at the same time materl-
ally reduces the cost and the possibility
of the gas being left escaping where the
burners are subject to the use of careless
and ignorant persons. Argands are
fitted both as rachel and plain pend
ants, and they differ from the common
burners, only in having argands instead
of the common burners above the STOP
cock. In regard to gasoline pendants,
any burner can be fitted to light by
electricity"
"What is the automatic system?'
at is that by which the gas is lighted
and extinguished from some distant
point by buttons placed in the wall fol
that purpose, and consists of the auto
matte burners and the push buttons, Oh
keys for lighting them. In the auto
| matte the electricity not only lights the
gas, but also turns it on and Off This
is done by two pair of electromagnetic,
one on either side of the gas-way, gov
erning an armature, which, by a lever,
operates the gas-cock. Thus, when an
electric current is obtained through one
of the magnets, the armature is attract
ed to that magnet and the lever moves
the stopcock and turns on the gas, and
| when the current of electricity is in
duced in the other magnet, the arma-
ture is drawn in that direction, thus
turning off the gas. This system is moi
adapted for general use in Il house, fol
| in most places, rs on chandeliers, the
pendants are much more convenient
and cost very much less; but in few pla'
ces the automatic is almost indispensa
| BILE. One in the front hall, to be light
ed by buttons, placed at the front door,
and also by the chamber door, or one
in the basement. with PROSECUTIONS OF
KEYS at the head of the basement stairs
| and at some convenient point in the
basement, OF in the sleeping-room, tc
be lighted from the bedside and room
door, are all luxuries which, after &C
| customed use, become necessities tt
household comfort The electric bur
ners cost from 81 to $3.50 each.-N Y
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