The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-23
MORE LIGHT COMING
Street and Water Board
Committee Submits
s, Its Report. III
AN INCREASED APPROPRIATION
The Welsbaeh Gas Street Lamps to
Be Introduced = Bids
Invited.
AN INCREASED APPROPRIATION

Inc Comrnittee on Municipal Lighting
OF the Street and Water Board. which
y under the supervision of the Demo-
cratic members, Messrs. Heintze and
Boltwood, has secured the. adoption Of
speeiaeatohs which wiz, 1t is heJad.
greatly improve Eiie pFasent street light
ing facilities. What thAs cornsnfttee pro-
poses doingssis embodiedsih the following
report, wnich was presented to the Board
yesterday
~ mas been the purpose soEgaur COM
mattee to prepare such. snecif ifeattsps Tor
lighting as it appeared would BE most
productive of benefciaa results in i'll
proving that department. of the city.
During the past year a. portion Of the
city was lighted By electricity. that ppr-
ton being subEdivided into eieetpso aro
light districts: another pofton wasiigh1s
ed by gas and the remainder by oil
LAMPS. The reasons for sos arpanginw tie
systems of Fighting were hEst; that the
appr opriatien was iisuAacientE ito aisfit tne
city with electric arc lights alone. aud
secondly, that there were sections in the
city in which it was found that gas ana
OH lamps would be more behefciad from
tne standpeint'of economy. and good light
ing. While it is true that the Beard
Of Finance has Increased the apprcpria-
ton for lighting for the year 1857 to the
extent of some thirteen thousand dollars.
1t IS also true that in many of the seq
tions of the city now lighted by electric
are lights more lights are needed to
properly complete the lighting of those
OF course your committee expects to
In - - r..
system At the present time the city is
paying for 1872 electric are ishts. / 600
OIL and $50 gas lamps. Your Committee.
IN the specifications presented herewith,
electric arc lights. 100 oil, 800 gas and 100
NelsDachs gas lamps. AS there has been
much dissatisfaction with those electric
are lamps placed upon the top of poles,
your committee has provided that ali
electric arc lamps shall swing at least
Two Teet clear Of the poles UPON which
they hang, and wherever necesSoTV shall
pc swung from two to fourteen feet clear
Of the pole In this way it IS hoped that
more beneficial results Will be obtained
IN those sections of the city where the
shade trees now dimtnash the efficiencv
Of the electric light system. The destrucs
ton OF glass in lamp posts is 4 constantly
Increasing source Of expense t5 the 6ity,
as the cost of reglazShg Is met by tie
city There are sufficient ordinances
governing this matter, which, II erlfcrced.
Wguio reducee lhlS expense TO q minimum
Your committee. therefore, IN the suecf-
aeations submitted have thought it wise
70 invite PROPOSALS fer gas and 5i1 light
Ing n two ways, first the price per lamp
monthly ard yearly. the city TO pay the
cost OF reglazing; second, the price per
lamp monthly and yearly, the bidder to
whom the contract is awarded to paw TIE
cost OF reglazings the city to agree to en-
force the ordinances prohibiting the break
ing Of glass in street lamps to the f,sil ex-
tent Your committee has also inyesti-
gated the Welsbach street lamps now
in use in the upper part of New York
oity. and has invited proposals for these
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