The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-07
THE CITrS ILLUMINATION.
THE NEW SYSTEM OF LIGHTS TO BE
IN OPERATION SOON.

IN OPERATION SOON.
The Number of Lights TO Be Increas-
ed From 316 to 5OO-The Increase
Distributed Over the Whole City
and the Entire system Rearranged.
Parks and Squares to BE Well
LiGhted-Yamacraw RObertsviIIe,
the Fort, COIIinsviIIe and the
Southern Section All Well Cared
For as Well as the Central Sec
tiOn-Lamps to BE Swung at street
Intersections-FOur Lights to BE
Placed in Each Square.
The work of rearranging the electric
lights of tie city and installing new
lights in order to conform to the new plan
for electric lighting is now in progress,
and is expected TO be completed by March
l. Savannah will be one of the best light
cd cities to be found anywhere in the
country.
The city has now 316 1.2OO-candle power
arc lights. Under the new plan there Will
be 800 arc lights of the same strength, an
increase Of 1874, or nearly 60 per cent. While
this allows of the extension of lights to
those portions of the city which have not
been lighted at all or only partially light
ed heretofore, it also allows an increase in
the number of lights in the business and
older residence sections
One of the main features of the new sys-
tenn will be the lighting of the parks and
squares. Every one of the twenty-five
squares in the northern section of the city
will be lighted by four arc lights, one
light facing each street intersection abut-
ting upon the squares. This will not only
thoroughly light the squares, but the
streets adjacent to them Colonial Park
will have one light in the center and one
on the southern side, opposite Lincoln
street, but there will be two lights on Alb
ercorn street and two on Oglethorpe ave-
nue. fronting the park.
Forsyth Park will have three lights in
the park, but will have lights all around
it. the plan showing one light at each
street intersection facing on the park.
The Park Extension will have five lights
down the center and one at each street in
tersection on each side, making ten more,
or fifteen in all casting their light upon
the military parade ground.
The portions of the city which have
heretofore been left in darkness, or at
best only partially lighted are to be
well lighted. "A cursory glance over the
city's new light map in the office of the
commissioner of public works yesterday
furnished some interesting data.
Yamacraw's proportion will be forty
lights. Robertsville will get twenty-five
and the section south of RObertsville com
monty known as Frogtown, will also get
twenty-five.
That portion of the "Old Fort" from
the river south to Liberty street east of
East Broad street, gets thir-
| ty lights. West of the
| Savannah, Florida and Western railway
| including Collinsville, are % lights. South
/ of Anderson street there will be about 70
! lights.
| There will not be quite enough lights to
! put one at every street intersection, even
/ in the heart of the city, but the major
| ity of street intersections will have lights
Bull street will have 2S lights from the
! river to Twelfth street. including those in
! the park and Park Extension. Drayton
and Whitaker streets come next with "a
! lights each. These streets are narrow and
more difficult to light than the wider
streets West Broad street will have p
lights and East Broad street
49, River street will have 10
| lights to illuminate the wharves. Bay
| street viii have fifteen, Bryan thirteen,
Broughton eleven and Oglethorpe avenue
| thirteen.
Commissioner Willink is now going over
the map and revising it. The positions of
some of the Old lights are being changed
to points where the lights will illuminate
| to better Advantage. AS located at present
| half the illumination from some of the
lights is cut off by trees and walls.
A great Improvement which will be made
in placing the lights under the new plan
| is that the lamps will be swung at street
| intersections so that the lamp will
swing in the middle of the street
and the light distributed in all directions
| AT present many of the lights are placed
upon poles upon the side of the streets,
and half the illumination is lost.
While lights are placed at much greater
intervals in the section of the city south
| of Anderson street than further north So
much of the space there is still open that
the light is thrown much further than in
the more thiclIly settled portions.
Only a few weeks more now and the
long-standing complaint of insufficient
lights upon the streets will be done away
| with.