New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-18
ELECTRIC l. LIGHT MEN IN SESSION.
..unRs READ AND REPORTS PRESENTED-A
FINE EXHIBITION OPENED

u..vdencc. r. L. Feb. 1.-THE nineteenth annual
.onv.nuon OF the National Electric Lehl ASSOCIATION
% opeped this morning by President MaIsdeh D.
ps-w MAYOR smith, Ex-Governor Laid and many
x.,,ens were present beside tie 200 delegates Inc
.,...r made an address of welcome, and President Pey
.ss,essed the convention upon the general subject OF
a,.s.teity W. Ii. MARYLAND, Of the Pennsylvania Rail
,oaa read paper on electric light as applied aho
ns.s by steam railroads. His principal topic was
h illumination Of freight yards and transfer stations.
u.rosd Yards required evenly dihused light rather
chan a bright light On this account arc lamps shOuiu
=. huna forty TO sixty feet above the ground ana
houn be disposed with special reference 10 avoiding
shadows and the obscurng of signals. Lights III
.dtching yards found 10 facilitate car Inspection
and all train movements, 10 prevent accidents 70 Ua
men and materially to lessen pilferagc. The electro
headlight for locomotives would not, he thought come
,r.o general use If any inventor wished TO get up
one he should confne himself 10 lamp OF 100 candle-
mower. A dynamo and lamp for this purpose mu9'
he ss simple as an air-brake and no more liable 10
GET out Of order. Electric Thanksgiving was luxury
and cost ten times much as gas. The arc lamp
WAS used TO an increasing extent In WIechlhS
operations.
Al the afternoon Session, the report OF the com.
mittee on underground conduit' and conductors was
read and accepted. During the year 1890 50 $40
miles of underground conductors were lald by tmS
conpapy and during that period there was one case
of trouble and that in a defective joint
F. H. Prenuss OF the New-Nork Steam Company
road paper on the distribution of stcail from cenu
stations He considered the exhaust from engines OF
electric lighting station by-prOduct, and from Inc
experience Of the steamheatng companies pointed OUT
a manner in which it could be utilized and pIeSeh'
soprce of waste turned into one Of revenue. MI
Premises conclusions that if half the steam sun
for heating could be obtained from the engine EXHAUST
the saving effected would amount TO enough TO pay "
10 per cent dividend.
The president recommended that stahulhS wa"
mittee be appointed t. formulate code Of ns'rl co'
for the safe and economical wiring Of streets ior o
service of electric lights and for the proper INSPECTION
and maintenance of the same. 1t was UNANIMOUSLY
adopted. -, .to
The electrical exhibition in oommemoid'loh VI INV
decennal of electric lighting by the associate eiper
OF the National Electric Light Association Wa opmOi
In Union Hall this evening. At 0cio'h Wu,;t
g. u Rarnev Of New York. chairman OF the cohliiIteo
on exhibits in oduced President Perry me "d i W.
dmly lighted by few gas burners nov an a. CIV a.,
light ncing aglOw and the speaking wa uuIc IA ,S
tS1light President Perry presented cNtIONeIiiOi
,pho formally Opeped the exhibition Inc niue ny ~
vear-oId daughter of superintendent 1honaN, vi uIS
S.,yapanseft Electric Lighting Company, ueh tuIlcu
ON me current through the plug by when the CuLtls
was sent 10 the first incande>cent lamp ever ,
from central station This was at llolboih Nla"uC'
Iondon January L., 1e.2. The current was sent
throngb section of the first Atlantic cable, gwen u
w Hammer by Cyrus W. Field Instantly every
incandescent and arc lamp in the hall became hGhtcu
TIC eNhibits occupy all the space available