Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-05-05


used will maintain a uniform brilliancy
at all times, thereby girIpgya soft diff
fused light which will not only burn
without flickering, but will distribute
given amount of light to q greater
distance than the present lamps. The
character of this light is sucr that il
does not affect the eye with its intense
Illuminating powers as at present. BY
the use of an inner opal globe, the
| light is equally distributed on all
sides, and the rejecting powers and
angle of the enamelled porcelain re-
1ector is such that the light illumi-
mates greater distances from this lamp
than from the old type.
The color of the light is also different
being a clear white instead of the in,
tense blue as now seen. The lamps
will be controlled from the station by
an automatic magnetic regulator, each
regulator controlling 90 lamps, and so
built as to allow all but one lamp to
be eXtinguished and not affect it in
the least. The regulators will at all
times be in charge of an attendant,
whose sole duty it will be to keep the
regulators at normal line voltage.
In looking up comments on this sys-
TEN of lighting, such as The Northern
Ohio Traction company has adopt
ed, we find some very interesting ar
ticles which should be OF interests to
all Of our citizens who are DESTROYS OF
seeing Akron, as it always has been,
in the lead. The present system now
in use was installed and operated here
before any of the larger cities had
Ladopted anything in this line, and We're
still using the gas light for street H.
Elimination. The Northern Ohio Trac-
ton company is sparins neither time
nor money to give Akron a lighting
system second to none IN the coune
try. -
Between Woburn, Mass, and Win
chester, they are using this system
with lamps about 500 feet apart, and
the lighting effect is excellent. The
following is n comment made by q
station manager who was investigating
the system: I'VE drove over the en-
tire eystem at night, with Il view OF
carefully investigating the light dis
tribution, and it is an interesting fact
that in riding toward or recedins
from the enclosed arc lamp. that the
light is not sufficiently strong or daz-
zlipg to affect the sight. The illumina-
tion is of such wide and dlnuseo
character that most favorable COM
ments are made by citizens who do
considerable driving OF wheeling"
/ In connection with the general II,
Illuminating capacity of these lamps
the manager of the Woburn plant
states. "I have to do great deal or
driving at night and have watched the
lighting effect OF both the old and new
lamps very carefully sand the lllum-
ination from the enclosed lamp Is SO
very satisfactory that I would not go
back to the old 1000 G. P. lamp, under
any consideration"
We also quote an extract from Wo'
burn Daily Journal, of AprloA, lS9q.
''The new street lighting system or
the Woburn Light, Heat and Power
Co. has been in operation since the
first day of April. We have withheld
comment until sufficient time had clap
sed for us to obesrve Its practical oper-
alton. The arc lamp is of an entirely
different type from those we have
been used to seeing and is known as
the enclosed arc Instead of the car
bons burning in the open air they are
enclosed within Il ground glass globe
which results in their lasting greater
number of hours and also in breaking
up the intenseness of the arc between
the two carbon points, which Is the
source of the light. This secures bet
Ter diffusion of the light and much
more effective result on the street The
distribution of the light Is more even
oyr the area lighted and the dark cir
Gle that was present with the old lamp
directly under 1t is entirely eliminated.
The new lamp burns with absolute
steadiness, which is a marked improve
ment over the unsteadiness which pre-
walls with the open arc type.
"Woburn should be congratulated
upon being the second city TO Boston
having the enclosed arc lamp for It's
street lighting and should feel proud
of the fact that after many years OF
patient endurance with the old Electric
Company's service, 1t mas at last gone
to the front in this department through
the untring efforts of the present own.
ers and officers Of this, by no means
unimportant, industry"
Here is an extract from the Schnec-
tady Daily Union on the same subject,
dated May 23rd, 1899;
Several new are lamps have recent
ly been installed in the lower part Of
the City on State, Union and Front
streets and Washington ave- by The