The evening times., 1900-07-25
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT
Questions to Be PrOPOunded TO the
Electric Lighting Company.
The COmmissiOners Wish TO Know
Why Inspection and Testing In
ard IL New Lamps Ordered to
be Established VIII BE Put Up.

| The negotiations between the District and
the United States Electric Lighting Compa-
ny. with reference to the price to be paid
the company for arc lights for street light
| ing purposes. advanced a step today when
Walter C. Allen. the Electrical Engineer.
| handed to the Commissioners list OF ques-
tons to be submitted TO the president of
the company.
Il have the honor to state,' says Mr.. Al
len, that after a personal consultation
with Gen. George H. Harries. Vice Presi-
dent Of the United States Electric Light
ing Company. it was deemed advisable to
| formulate a set of questions covering the
points on which this department desires
definite Information. These questions are
to be submitted to the company at once
rather than to wait for a Board meeting,
which would considerably delay matters
owing 10 the absence of one OF the Com
missioners from the city. I would, there
fore. respectfully recommend that the fol-
lowing questions be sent to the United
States Electric Lighting Company:
In what way do the requirements OF
section relating TO the inspection and
! testing OF lamps increase the cost 10 the
company for maintaining the service?
Why DO you insist upon a Wattage of
425 for each lamp when the accepted des-
ignatiOn OF a LOCO candle power lamp Is
$50 watts?
Does the company positively decline
70 establish such new lamps as the Com
missioners may desire TO erect2'
Full information has been furnished the
, superintendent Of the company in regard
10 the location Of the proposed lamps. The
three questions prOpOundet covering the
vital points 10 be embodied in the contract
| and particularly the third question, should
Be answered definitely, as the extension Of
Z both the gas and arc lighting service de-
pends upon il.
I respectfully recommend that the COM
paly be urged TO send an early reply. as
the work Of the department Will be delayed
until these points are known
II Will be recalled in this connection that
/ the bid Cor arc lights by the United States
Electric Lighting Company was $ll5, and
! that the amount allowed BY Congress in
the District Appropriations bill for the cur
rent fiscal year was $72- Moreover, the
company HIS agreed TO furnish the lamps
for $72 until the matter can be lad before
Congress again, with a view TO representa-
tions which viii show that lights at $72
would be lrEished At a loss 10 the COM
pdny.
The COmniz siouers this morning received
/ from a. I. Crvnshaw, assistant general
manager c. Il. Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company. a request for the
modification OF a former permit relative
10 the stringing OF two wires from its
cable pole. corner Of Nineteenth Street and
Florida Avenue northwest, 10 the premises
Of Il II. Ward. on Wyoming Avenue.
Referring TO this cOmpany's application
Of the 11th instant" Nir. Creushaw writes
FOR permission 70 string tive wires from
Nineteenth Street and Wyoming Avenue
along Nineteenth Street and Wyoming
Avenue TO 'Sunbury,' the residence OF H. II.
Ward. l low have 10 REQUEST permission
. to modify said application so as TO permit
the remJval OF the two wires now run
ming from Nineteenth Street north Of Wy
omiIg A:o-Ua 70 premises 1895 halurama
Avenue 10 the south side Of Wyoming Ave
nue., and thence to the residence OF Mr.
Ward, fol the purpose Of making . house
connection"
In reporting on this request Walter c.
Allen. the Electrical Engineer. states that
this change OF route Of the two wires in
question is one which he thinks should not
be favorably considered. IN view Of the
Commissioners decision that they are
without authority to grant permission for
The stringing Of wires for telephone pur-
poses outside of the city limits Mr Allen
remarks that the two wires now running
from Columbia Road and Wyoming Avenue
TO premises 1865 Kalorama Avenue were
strung for the purpose Of telephone sery-
ice in the said premises. II would Mr
Allen thinks. be merely eyading the Com
missioners' decision 70 transfer these
wires to another street 20 connect an en-
tirely different residence.
The Electrical Engineer informs the
1Egef ION ha~
granted the situation in regard TO over
head wires will ne greatly complicated. as
this method could be carried TO an un-
limited extent in the company's overhead
system.
It is understood that the Commissioners
Will frame reply to the Telephone Com
pany in accordance with the recOmmenda-
tions of the Electrical Engineer
4 petition signed by August b. Blount
and twenty-four others interested in the
matter has been handed to the Commits
sioners requesting that the electric light
ing company be granted permission TO ex-
tend its system and 10 string ils wires
along the Jockey Club and Anacostia
roads TO the railroad bridge at Benning.
In a letter to the Commissioners Mr.
Blount states that he is interested in the
Benning racing property. and tha. he be-
lieves the extension of wires would beneht
not only the neighborhood but the general
public.
The Electrical Engineer this morning
recommended that the petitioners be in
formed that the Commissioners have been
vised by their Attorney that they are
without authority TO grant permits for the
extension Of overhead wires in the Dis
trict Of Columbia east of Rock Creek
IL is understood that the Commissioners
will issue an order in accordance with the
above recommendation.