The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-31
$50 MOONS.
Electric Lamps on the Bou-
leyard to be Turned
on Tonight.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT
Barring Accidents the Road Will
be Ablaze With Light Mag
nificent Panorama.
$50 MOONS.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT

Should nothing go wrong with the
seventy miles of wire the Boulevard at
sundown tonight will be ablaze with cleo
trio lights. For the first time the in
candescent lamps, placed at intervals
along the fourteen and a miles of road,
will illuminate the way for pedestrians,
vehicles and bicycles.
Barring defects of insulation, which no
one can foresee Engineer Edlow S. Har-
rison is confident that everything will be
ready to turn on the power for the road
on the last day of the year
There are 2S0 of these lamps, known as
standard double service, concerning which
there was litigation in the courts They
win be the first of their kind used in
the Eastern States. Chicago, Cincinnati
and Cleveland have them in use and they
are highly commended for the light they
shed. They are spread over the County
Road at average distances of 270 feet
and their power comes from Snake Hill.
The plant on the County Farm to sup
ply the light is an exceedingly powerful
one. The engine to drive the dynamos
is "a compound condensing, with l2O revo-
lutions per minute and a horse powerr
of 450 to $50 pounds; or a power sufficient
to raise 14,S5o,000 pounds one foot high
per minute. To feed this monster are
entire power generated will supply 15c
more lamps if needed. The dynamos are
4SO light standard engines.
comprises four circuits of 1000 volts.
This voltage is extremely high; much
higher than that used in New, York and
The first of these four circuits leaves
Snake Hill, runs along the County Road
from Snake HILL. up Manhattan avenue
Bergen Point, lighting all the Bayonne
section of the road. The second circuit
supplies that portion of the Boulevard
from the Greenyitle Tt line to tbjrd enwooa v,oa
north from Glenwood avenue to the
Schuetzen Park at Union Hill, and the
fourth and last circuit ilipminates sa mates the ene
of the county to the county line. Eacn
circuit lights about three and one nan
miles of road and there are seventy
lamps in each division rn,,oo,.
Thorne at the direction of Mr.. Harriee
son has superintended the testing t,o Of
factory and justify the engineers IN the
belief that everything will go well to-
night; but as they say in IT the 9afaete seyendy :
many points which can only be diseoy-
cred when the power is turned on
Should anythng ec9f of The road then
tomorrow will see it radiant in arc
lights.
down every day. when It is ,so IN working
To obtain full view of the effect
when the lights are turned on, btcycllsts
and others Should take one of tie New
ark roads, and about opposite oSa snake a
Along the ridge which stretches from
above the rounded towers of the. mon
astery to the north to the kills in the
south will be seen a. double e, line Of gn,, gilt
serpents pei had fallen from its planetary
eST To y men en- with trotters, PAGERS and ev-
cry other variety Of the genus ,I,1 eauus
ward by night will be continual source
of pleasure. If it be crowded by day
When wiun during the ABSENCE Of n moonlighff . o 1t
the road and reveal those spots and de-
fects witch even the oft-repeated Free
holders Inspections fail to discover.
That these may not be disappointed, da,al
their level best to make the initial light
ing up process tonight a glitterlng sue