The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-20
Up WITH THE TIMES.
Salt Lake House Builders Like
Modern improvements.
THE USES OF ELECTRICITY.
There is Scarcely New Building, Residence
or Business, but Which Uses it
in SOmeForm.
THE USES OF ELECTRICITY.

There is not an agency in the civilized
world to-day that is making so much head
way as electricity.
1t is revolutionizing nearly every branch
of business.
1t has laid out the festive mule as pro-
peller for street cars; replaced the noisy,
dirty, dangerous and cumbersome steam
engine as motive power for printing
presses and other powerful machinery.
Gas as street illuminator pales into in
significance before its rays; and the sub
divided incandeScent has in many cases
driven out the deadly gas burner from
private dwellings and business houses
With electric lights in his store window,
the merchant may display his most costly
and delicate fabrics without fear that a
false turn of the pendant and will cause a
conhagratlon, and when the doors are
locked after hard days toll, the light
may be left burning until midnight, when
lew seconds work at the power house
makes all total darkness.
1t lights the gas, calls up the cook, illu-
inmates dark recesses where erstwhile the
fiickering lamp Of the coal miner was the
only ray ever penetrating there. 1t re-
veals the heretofore hidden wonders at the
depth of the sea-
1t turns on the fire alarm, calls ND the
police, rings the bell in the fire tower, and
does everything except dress the firemen,
hitch up the horses and put out the fire.
1t is but few years since the mysteri-
Gus force was almost unused here,
and all will remember with what wonder
aud amazement the first arc light intro
duced in Salt Lake was regarded
But times change and people change with
them.
Now we have at least three companies in
Salt Lake whose business is the introduc-
ton Of electrical apparatus into business
houses anda residences, and the ways in
which it is utilized are too numerous to
mention, and too difficult to explain
The hold electricity has taken upon the
people of Salt Lake, said Mr.. E. G. Hold
ing recently, ''is something entirely un-
looked for. 1t is not many months ago
since number of the leading architects in
Salt Lake expressed it as their opinion
that 1t " ould be many years before electrical
house furnishings would become popular
here, giving as their reasons that Salt
Lakers, as rule, would not care to take
hold of the many advantages the use of it
offers''
And you say the statements of the ar
chltects have not been borne out by facts 90
.'They certainly have not There is prob
ably no city in the country of the same pop
ulation where electrical house and office ap-
planes are more freely used than here.
All our modern dwellings are fitted up with
electricity in one form or another, and |
find that very large number of build
lngs now being erected are being wired in
order that the electric light may be used
just as soon as the price comes within
reach. A great many who use gas are put
ting in the electric gas-lghting connections,
and they claim that there is a great saving
In the gas bills as a result. In the Easements
of stores where artificial light must be
used, there is big demand for gas-lighters,
because of the TACT that greater safety is
assured. A basement may be kept as dark
as midnight when not used, but the press
ing of button at the head of the STAIRS
does away with the dangerous match.
Then, again, am pleased to see the build
ings are being fitted with the automatic fire
alarm. In each room there is little coil of
wire in the ceiling, and an annunciator in
the lower hallway. Whenever the tenn
perature of room reaches certain de.
gree the gong in the hallway rings and il
dicates the floor where the trouble arises.
There are many other appliances, the des
cription of which would fill page of THE
HERALD. Those who imagine the average
Salt Laker does not enjoy the modern ad-
vantages are reckoning without their
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