The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
ELECTRICAL.
The Use of the Subtle Agent Be-
coming General.
Gas Being Sent to the Rear, to
Keep Company With We
Ancient Tallow Dip.

Messrs. Childs & Macmurdo, of Rich
mond, Va, talk of erecting a $4,000
electric light plant at Lexington.
Marquette, Mich, has settled the ques.
ton of electric light, and work will be
commenced soon.
An electric lighting installation, con-
sisting of 450 sixteen candle power Edison
and Swan lamps, has been fitted on board
Il. M. S. Britannia. The cost of the
work was $4,000.
The electric light dam and main build
ing in Neenah, WIS.,, were washed away by
high water last week. The dypamos are
. at the bottom of the river. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
The electric light plant about 10 be g.
rected at Greenville Tex, will be of thirty
five arcs capacity, and will be put up by
the GreenvilIe Water and Electric Light
company.
The electric works of Messrs. Dorsey
Paine g. Co., at Chattanooga, Tenn, have
been burned. They will be rebuilt at once
Mr.. Edward Weston has discovered an
alloy, the electrical resistance of which
diminishes with increase of temperature
1t is composed of copper, Manganese and
nickel.
The Wichita Electric Light company,
of Wichita, Kan, has sent an order for a
$500 light lncandescent plant to the
Thomson Houston company of Chicago.
The light and power plant at Kearney,
Neb., now IN course of construction, will
be finished in few days. One twenty
horsepower and one thirty. horsepower
motor will be put in. The lighting plant
will start with 400 lamps, while the ca
pacity will be 1000.
The Reno Electric Light company, of
Reno, CAL, and the Electric Light aud
Power company, of Laredo, Tex, will
add new machinery to their plants.
Mr.. George A. Mayo has been engaged
by the Van Depotle company, of Chicago,
as electrician. Mr., Mayo is developing
the new incandescent system, which the
company will soon put on the market.
The tests which have thus far been made
indicate that the lamps will have re-
markedly long life.
The Reading Electric Light and Power
company, OF Reading, Pa, will en-
large its plant, having ordered two $50
horsepower engines and two Edison
dynamos, with capacity of 800 ten can
dle-power lights.
At Indianapolis, Ind =, this electric lights
which the city has contracted for were
located last week, and it is thought that a
report will be made to the council this
week of the action of the committee hav-
ing the matter in charge.
The Richmond Electric Light and
Power company, of Richmond, Va, will
organize a company to erect an electric
light plant at Lexington, same state,
reference to which was made in our pre-
vious issue.
An application of electricity to icon
mining is now proposed. 1t consists In
the crushing of magnetic iron ore by
crusher and rolls, and effecting a separa-
ton of the ore from the gangue by means
of dynamos. An experim entail plant is to
be erected at one of the Marquette, Mich,
mines, aud the machinery best adapted
for work on large scale tested.
The New England Insurance exchange
will write no insurance on any property,
after October l, wired for electricity, IN
less the wiring is done by person having
a certificate granted him by the New Eng
land Electric exchange. The exchange
has been formed now for about two
months, and already a large number OF
certificates have been granted, and there
are nearly half hundred applicants now
waiting examination.
Work upon the new electric light plant
at Manchester, N. H., will be commenced
October l. The old poles will be utilized
in nearly every instance, but new wires
will be strung and the circuits somewhat
changed. The contract has not been
signed yet, although it has been drawn up
and is in the hands of the city solicitor,
who will inspect the document in the in
terest of the city.
The depot and surroundings at Los
Angeles, CAL, are to be lighted by com
bined arc and incandescent plant manu-
featured by the Waterhouse Electric and
Manufacturing company, of Hartford,
Conn. 1t will consist of eight double arc
lamps, twenty-four twenty-five candle
power and ten 100 candle power incandes-
cent lamps.
The Eden Musee, Chicago, ILL.,, is lighted
with 400 incandescent lamps of the
Thomson Houston system. The lamps
are in use about fourteen or fifteen hours
per day. Recent tests were made, which
showed the average life of the lamps to be
over 1,400 hours each.
The Wheeling Electric Light company,
of Wheeling, W. Va, has been engaged
for some time past in testing an electric
meter, intended to be put on the lines
running into the premises of partle;
using electric lights, for the measurement
of the electricity expended, in very much
the same manner as gas is measured. The
meter is in reality small electric motor
the revolutions of which, as the mysteriout
force flows along the wire to the iigE
causes the dial hands to revOlve,
At Indianapolis, Ind, the council hal
ordered gas lamps extended to certain
streets. An ordinance has been inGro
duced in the same body stipulating terms
under which incsndescent electric ligh
companies may operate in the city. The
chief provisions are that incandescent
companies (arc companies not mentioned
must pay 2l5 per cent of gross revenue
to the city after 1891 and per cent after
1896; must not operate arc lights; must
put wires under ground; must give bond
of S25,OOO; must submit in all matters oil
detail to the city civil engineer, etc.
The Allegheny, Pa, gas committee heio
a special meeting on the 2Oth instant u
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