The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-21
|NCANDESCENTS.
TIE FIRST GENERAL INTRODUC-
TON IN THIS CITY.
The Times the Pioneer.
Ihf First Newspaper Office in the Sonth
Lighted and Run by Electricity.
Also the First Business Establishment
IN Richmond to Adopt the New
Departure From Gas.
NESTM0RELAND NEXT.
OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS TO FOL
Low SUIT
\ BEAUTIFUL. BRILLIANT. STEADY
AND SATISFACTORY LIGHT.

eSltTGdN WilHtHStu INC lulIOIu'lipb
of the incandescent electric light as "A
general illuminat0r in Richmond, and
the TINES was the first business estab-
Hshment 10 use il. The Office and edi-
tOrial rooms were brilliantly lighted up
with the little incandesced filaments OF
carbon inClOscd in their neat pear shaped
glass bulbs, and the rooms were made
AS bright as day by the soft, unflickerng
light. which while agreeable 10 the eyes,
was even brilliant enough 10 actually
tighten up the usually heavy labOrs OF
the plodding men of letters and news.
TIE VIRGINIA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND
POWER COMPANY.
Last Sunday week the TIMES stated
that the Virginia Electric Light and
Power Company had established itself in
this citv. and would very soon be in
position 90 say, Let there he light to
The private residences and business houses
of Richmond, which have so long strug-
pled with the dimncss and dirt of sOOty
gas. II was also intimated at the same
time that the TIMES would be the piO-
necr in adopting these lights, and that IN
thcyery near future the business office,
editorial rooms, composing rooms. AMI
press room would be in the enjoyment
of the comfort and pleasure they Afford
THE WIRES PUT IN.
ON Saturday last Mr. William II Cole
the efficient superintendent of the com
panv. called in the office and stated that
ON Monday he would give the TIMES
the illuminatOrs il go much desired. He
=. 4 ~
Yesterday morning, WOrkmen under the
supervision of Mr. \. b Price, began To
insert their wires and prepare for the
introduction Of the inCandesceni burners
Bv o'clock in the afternoon the work
was completed and the current turned
ON Ia "A few minutes more every
body i'm the office was busy writing
under the handsome glass bulb>,
feeling as if gas was thing of a hundred
wears ago. and wondering how in the
world they had put mp with 1t olong No
doubt our ancestors felt the same way
towards the talOw candle when the
-pcrmacetti was invented, and II, in time,
became equally looked down upon when
gas drove 1t into the shade
THE EwEsrMoRELASD CLUE FOLLOWS SUIT.
The Westmoreland GLIB has been
negotiating for these lights for some time
past and the work of introducing them
in that building was also begun yester
day. ID il the intention TO put in there
about 20 lights, but last night only the
parlors and hallway could be lighted.
That was done about : o'clock, about
three hours after the TIMES had been
lighted up, so establishing the claim
of this paper 10 be
THE PIONEER or INCANDEsCENT LIGHT
MING
i'm Richmond. Other business establish
menis will. no doubt soon follow our
lead. and We learn that the Dispatch also
intends doing away with gas and placing
these lights in its office, editorial, and
composing rooms.
THE OFFICERS or THE COMPANY.
The following are the officers Of this
company which promises to do so much
for Richmond.
President, Henry Steers, New York.
Vice President, John +. Barry, Boston
Treasurer. W NJ Motley, New York.
Superintendent. W. NJ. Cole, New
York.
On the Board of Directors are a mum
ber of residents of Richmond, which
localizes it, and make us feel as If 1t was
something OF home enterprise.
An ELECTRIC NEWSPAPER OFFICE.
But to return briefly to our mutton,
wc have only this to say in conclusion,
that the same company will soon furnish
the TIMES office with electricity for It's
electric motor, and other electric i'm
proyements will be introduced, which
will make this the model electric office of
the South II necessary we Will even
have electric reporters and news gather
eis so as to keep well in the lead we have
SO successfully established.