Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-18
SELECT COuNCII.

SELECT COUNCIL.
The following members were present:
Messrs. Berger, Demuth, Doerr, Long,
Remiey, Riddle, Urban, Wise and Evans,
Mr. Urban presented the report Of the fire
committee. 1t contains the proposals and
award Of contract Tor repair Of No. 2 engine,
and also the result of the test Of the new
Clapp 4 Jones engine (heretofore reported).
Attached to the report was resolution that
the Clapp & Jones engine be accepted.
Mr.. Riddle said that he had seen notice
In one of the newspapers that at the test made
Of the engine IL failed to come up to the
requirements demanded by councils and the
guarantee given by the builders
Mr.. Urban explained that the weather was
very unfavorable at the time the tests were
made, but the engine worked steadily at lbs
TO 1870 steam pressure, and the committee
and others who witnessed the tests were sat
isfied that the engine was a good one, and
would do all that 1t had been guaranteed to
do
Mr.. Riddle thought it was due TO the
builders as well as to the fire committee and
councils, that a test should be made that
would show beyond dispute that the engine
fulfilled its guarantee. lie had no doubt 1t
would do so under favorable conditions He
engine be postponed until the stated meet
ing in April.
The motion was agreed to. Common coun-
Gil concurred.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT QUESTION.
A petition from the employees of the Ian
caster watch factory asking for the adoption
OF the Edison light was read and referred to
the lamp committee.
resolution from common council, direct
ing the lamp committee to enter into con-
tract with the Edison incandescent light
company was received and read.
Mr.. Urban spoke in favor OF concurTing in
the resolution adopted by common council.
The Edison light, he thought, was the best Ii
not so brilliant as the light now in use, it will
give uniform light all over the city. The
alleys and suburbs will have as good light
as the principal streets. Besides the incan-
descent is local company in which many of
our citizens are interested 1t is not an ex-
pertinent as some have said, but has been in
successful operation in Johnstowu, West
Chester and other cities.
RIDDLE THROWS IN BOMB.
| Mr.. Riddle said he had given considerable
attention to the question OF lighting the city.
| He had heard reports from Johnstown that
the Edison light did not give satisfaction.
| At the suggestion of friends of the Edison
| light he had visited West Chester and found
| that borough lighted with about 200 incsn-
q escent lights He had looked at them from
all directions and found that they did not
| furnish the kind of light that Lancaster
| wanted. The sixteen.candle power lamps
| were not n good as a good gas-burner, and
| the 32-candle power lamps not much better.
| He was also informed that the company
furnished West Chester with light at
considerably less per lamp than they offered
| to furnish 1t here. If their offer to light
Lancaster was as low in proportion as their
| contract with West Chester, there would be
a saving to the city OF 5000. Their proposals
| offered To the lamp committee are much less
favorable than they offer to indi ividual citizens
Mr. Riddle said he did not believe there
| was a city in the United States that was
| charged more for light - whether it be
electric, gas or gasoline-than individual
| citizens were charged for the same kind OF
| light He was informed that q town in
| Massachusetts,, requiring about as many
| lamps rs Lancaster, was lighted with incandei j.
cent lamps for 5000, while 1t Is proposed to
charge this city $4,000 for the same number
He was opposed to throwing out the present
plant which was furnishing good light and
| putting one in that was not so good. If this
| Is done the streets in the suburbs will not he
| lighted as well as they are now. The plea
| that the Edison company is "a home com
pany" is answered by the fact that the gas
| don't want gas
Mr.. Urban replied, stating that the CITY
would save s, 900 per year by accepting the
Edison light besides We would avoid the
annoyance we now experience In couse-
| quence of the gas and gasoline lamps being
blown out by winds.
Mr. Remley answered that he had been in
| formed that the incandescent lamps were
also uable 10 go out during thunder storms.
The EDISON COMPANY DEFEATED.
The question being called on concurring
with the action OF common council in direct
| ing the lamp committee to enter into con
tract with the incandescent company, to
| light the city for ole year, the vote was as
| follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Doerr, Long, Urban aud
| Wise-4.
| Nsys-Messrss Berger, Demuth, Remley,
| Riddle and Evans, president
SO select council non-concurred in the ac-
| ton OF common council.
| THE q. s. MAXIM TRIUMPHANT.
Mr.. Riddle offered resolution that the
lamp committee be directed to enter into 9
contract with the United States Electric
Lighting company to light the city for one
| year from June j, 1856, To June /, 1887
at 361z cents per lamp per night, provided
they will light the city from the LIST o
March to the LIST Of June 1856 at the sam,
| rate.
The yeas and nays being called the resou
ton W AZ adopted by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs- Berger, Demuth, Doerr
Remley, Riddle and Evans, president,-6
Nays-Messrs. Long, Urban and Wise-3
Common council concurred. Adjourned