Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-20
SCHURIG GETS A CLEAN BILL
Experts File Their Report on the County
Hospital Wiring.
PROSPECT OF ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
jenkins Says Only Inmates and EN-
piOycs Shall Have board and
Lodging at the County
Poor Farm.

City Electrician schurig, who was ac
cused by ii. S. Thomas before the Boart
of County Commissioners with falling tt
properly wire the county hospital according
to contract and specifications, was given {
clean bill at the meeting of the commission
ers yesterday morning. His vindication wat
embodied in the report of expert electricians
w. f. White, Irwen Lewiston and w. S
Rogers, who were appointed by the board
to make an investigation.
The report was as follows: 'In accord
ance with the instructions of your honora
BILE body, we have this day made an eX,
animation and inspection of the wiring oi
the county hospital with particular refer
ence to the manner in which the contractor
has fulfilled the terms of his agreement
and beg to submit the following report OF
its findings:
"The main building and halls are wired
for 100 lamps, now installed, and under the
terms of the contract the wires must have
capacity for twice this number, or $50 lamps.
The rear building, to make up the balance
Of the 600 lamps called for, should be wired
for 220 lamps, of which number 116 lamps
are now installed
"The electric current is now being supplied
by the New Omaha Thomson-Houston Elec-
trio Light company whose wires connect
to the hospital wiring near its center of
distribution, so that the feeders, running
TO the centers of distribution from the
dynamo room, are used for only a part of
the distance, and the per cent OF loss in
said feeders could not therefore be deter
mined by volt meter test.
SHOWS EXCELLENT RESULTS.
Al
the centers OF distribution and the lamps
was determined by measuring with a stand
ard Western volt meter the voltage at
the branch cutouts at the center of distri-
button and at the lamps. The drop in
voltage was found to be one-half volt with
all the lamps burning, the lamps being of 3.6
watts efficiency. Lamps of 81 watts eff
cheney, as covered by the contract, there
fore would show a drop in the wiring OF .43
OF one volt, which equals SO of one volt IL
the voltage were 120 volts. which voltage
you might use II the hospital were being
lighted from its own plant.
with double the number OF lamps the
drop would therefore be only ~ OF one volt,
which is most excellent and unusual re-
suit
"The loss In the feeders from the dynamo
room to the centers of distribution, fgur-
ing $50 lamps of 81 watts efficiency at 100
volts, the distance being $50 feet and the
cular mills ION each side), is determined
by calculation to be 3.7 volts or almost ex-
actly per cent loss, II lamps of 81 watts
efficiency and l20 volts as specified above,
were used
This calculation is based on twice the
number OF lamps now installed, so that II
all the lamps now located were in use at one
time under the above conditions the total
loss from the switchboard to the lamps
would be only per cent. The contract
specifies a loss from the center of distrlbu
tion to the lamps OF per cent, with the
lamps doubled in number, and the result
accomplished is just twice as good.
"The contract does not specify the amount
of loss in the feeders. The original specin-
cations name total loss OF per cent and
the results obtained show only per cent
or 20 per cent better than called for. The
amended specifications call for 2 per cent
total loss, or so per cent better than OBJ
tained. These two specifications and the
contract conflict The contract calls for 2
per cent from the center OF distribution TO
the lamps, and 1t would therefore be OBJ
ylously impossible TO wire tog total loss