The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-05
THE CITY'S LIGHTS.
What the Electric Light Company is
Doing-An Electric Light Meter.

What the Electric Light Company is
Doing-An Electric Light Meter.
Supt. T. p Keck Of the Brush Electric
Light and Power Company, talked very en-
tertainingly to a MORNING News represent
alive yesterday, and exhibited an electric
meter which registers accurately the candle
power used. One of these meters is in
OPERATION in the Guckenhemer building.
Supt. Keck says that appliances are now
In use whereby the electric lights can be
regulated from the highest degree Of bril-
nancy all the way down to entire darkness,
and they are coming into use in public halls
and theaters where the ght can be regu-
laled with the same precision as the flame
OF a gas jet An appliance has also been in
vented doing away with the brush"
Inc lighting company i'll this city has just
put IN w estlnghOuse lncandescent plant of
seYenty-tive lights at Hammond, Hull &
COS new fertilizer works on tue Savannah
rlver west of the city.
Mr.. keck says that the lighting company
has ordered another dynamo with a capacity
for operating 5000 incandesceut lights, and
expects TO have it here in two weeks. He
says that the company expects to put 1873
lEcandesc9nt lights in the Marshall house
within the week, when the Pulaski, Screven
and Marshall houses will then be on one
line, having 706 incandescent burners,
divided as follows: Screven, 1853; Pulaski,
$50; Marshall, 1873. The company will also
put between sixty and eighty incandescent
lights in the Old Fellows building.
The company has under consideration
an application for 1902 lncaudescent lights
for South Broad street, east of Habersham,
and it is believed that the company will ex-
tend rhe service in that section. Mr. Keck
says that if the service is given the ele trio
ltfrtf i
South Broad street la Ie, and the connec-
tons on South Broad male from the rear.
he says the day is not far distant when
there will be general consolidation of the
great electric light companies, and
he cited the fact of the Westing-
house company scooping in the United
States Electric Light Company as
beginning of the anna gamation He thinks
electricity is to be the motive power of the
future, and he accounts for the hardness of
applying it to street railroad service here
and elsewhere from the fact that tie in
ventlons and improvements are so con-
tlnuous that nearly every enterprise is
waiting for the greatest excellence to be
reached before adopting electricity as
motive power.
Supt. Keck was asked how many arc and
incandescent lights are used here. Ia reply
he said there are but two private plants in
the city-the MORNING NEWS plant, put up
by the United States Electric Light Com
pany, now merged in the Westinghouse
company, and the Hammond, Hull & Co.
Westinghouse plant, put in last week All
the other lights are furnished by the Brush
Electric Light and Power Company, and
are as follows; III arc light; and 1900 in
candescent lights. One hundred of the arc
lights are used for lighting the city proper.
The ocean steamship wharves are lighted by
Is arc and 50 incaDdescent lights, and the
new depot of the Savannah, Florida and
Western and Charleston and Savannah
railways is lighted by 10 arc lights.