Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-27


arc lighting service that is now being
installed in Akron by the Northern
ohio Traction company.
East Market street people have petit
toned to have these lights placed
upon their street, and at its meeting
next Monday night the council, in ac-
cordance with the petition will de-
cline to concur in the contract entered
into by the Commissioners for the
lighting of the street by gas, Il form
of lighting against which two thirds
of the property owners have protested.
The Democrat upon this page today
publishes an illustration of the new
enclosed arc lamp adopted by the
company, together with the comments
of newspapers published in some of
the eastern cities, where the new
system has been operated with such
satisfaction.
Early in the summer of last year the
Northern Ohio Traction company
commenced very careful inves-
tigation of the most modern systems
of arc lighting for streets and CONNER
cal use, with the idea of abandoning
the present system and adopting the
most modern methods and appliances
The investigations were carried on by
the best electric light experts to be
found; and the series alternating en-
closed arc lamps as now used almost
exclusively in the east were very care
fully inspected. They also asked the
Akron City Commissioners to send a
committee east, to look over several
systems and reports on same. The
committee consisted of one member of
the Board of Commissioners, and the
Mechanical Engineer. They visited
Pittsburg, Pa, Newark, n. j., New
York city, Hartford, Conn.,, and Schen-
ectady, n. Y, and after carefully con
sidering the systems they inspected,
reported as follows:
eve have thoroughly investigate
and inspected both the General Elec-
trio and Westinghouse systems of SER
les alternating enclosed arc lamps,
and we are thoroughly convinced that
such system is Il great improvement
over the old arc lamp, for the follow
ing reasons:
The light is better distributed, is
not so glaring to the eye, and does not
cast any shadows on the street under
the lamp. and we have so reported to
the Board of City Commissioners, and
our report was this day adopted by
them, on the strength of the above
report
Upon its being adopted, The North
ern Ohio Traction company imme-
diately placed orders for about $780,
coo worth of machines and lamps,
making 1t necessary to enlarge the
present plant in all its branches, work
on which will be completed within a
month. This also necesstated the re-
building of their are lines all over the
city, as well as their commercial and
incandescent circuits.
The new system will be of the West
inghouse type, the generators being
direct connected to 500 II. T. Cross
Compound Condensing Engines of The
Cooper Corliss type. The regulation
will be within per cent. of absolute
accuracy, so that the lamps wherever
used will maintain uniform bril-
hancy at all times, thereby giving
soft diffused light which will not only
burn without fickering, but will dis
tribute given amount of light to a
greater distance than the present
lamps. The character of this light is
such that II does not affect the eye
with its intense illuminating powers
as at present. BY the use of an inner
opal globe, the light If equally dis
tributed on all sides, and the rejecting
powers and angle OF the enamelled por-
celain reflector is such that the light