The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-05

The annual report of the department
 of street light was given out yester-
 day by Inspector Henry Hopkins, who
 compiled the statement from the years
 records kept in his office and made out
 day by day. The report indicates that | the city has been more thoroughly
 lighted during the year because of the
 increase in the number of lights now in f use and in the improvement in the sys-
 tenn of placing them. Several have i been relocated to better advantage,
 The report explains itself and is as fol- 1 lows:
 | Office Lamp Department Room 10, City Hall.
 To His Honor the Mayor, and the | Honorable Court of Common Council of the City of New Haven:
 Gentlemen-I hereby most respect fully forward the annual report for the year ending December 31, 1901. It is
 our wish that the following pages re- ceive your most careful scrutiny. Va rious tables and exhibits are presented which show the years work in detail; from them you can judge the results of the money expended.
 The appropriation allowed was $SS,-
 621.25, of which there was unexpended S1,120.4 Several transfers from one item to another were made by the courtesy of the Board of Finance.
 In addition to the net gain of various styles of lights all the lamps, gas and naphtha (eXcept police signals) have been equipped with Welsbach burners, which have been very satisfactory. On December 31, 1900, the candle power of public lamps in use was 655, ,120 same date. year of 1901, 72S,540. net, gain of 73,420 candle power. We believe this increase has been satisfactory. to the public in general and placed the de- partment on a very efficient footing. This has been reached only by years of study and care. In the future, if this footing is retained, a reasonable in crease will keep pace with the demands of the taxpayers Each year our citi- zens are becoming more convinced of the value of good street lighting.
 Twenty seven new lamps have been erected and fourteen changes of minor nature made, The number of arc lamps now burning is $40; the increase was made after careful consideration from the most worthy petitions. One was put up at Tomlinson drawbridge, | by request of the public works depart | ment, to conform to the United States law in regard to drawbridges. The | service has been excellent; $21.50 de- duction from the lighting bills has been | made for outage.
 The gas lamp division now consists of thirty-seven flat flames used for police signals and thousand Welsbachs. During the year forty-two Welsbachs and two police signal lamps have been erected and twenty-five discontinued (Welsbach) and tWenty-four reset. For such number of lamps the service rem dered has been of high order. Fifty five dollars and eighty-nine cents has been the amount deducted for lamps not lighted
 At last report 492 plain naphtha lamps were in use, 1S9 of which were to gas lamps by special ar one discontinued and nine teen erected, making now in use 321, all of which are Welsbach equipment. Six have been reset. Outage has been $6,68. These lamps are a great improvement over the old kind, and are very useful where there is no gas main. These changes have been made on various Hates, but the service for the time they nave been in use has been excellent
 The lamp committee has held thirteen meetings and in addition has given quite a little time and thought to the affairs of the department It has seemed advisable to erect quite a num- ] per of electric lights outside the center of the city where the police protection S scant, owing to the large amount of l covered by a single patrolman, This action has met the sincere appro- val of the citizens in general I
 One thousand and twentytwo street signs have been put up The annual ] appropriation for this item is so small hat practically no progress can be made.
 Tree trimming is one of the questions which are becoming serious on account ( If our large number of trees. It has it's f fleet on all styles of lamps especially n foliage time Some systematic plan ' must be adopted soon to remedy this. z All of the fixtures have been painted l
 uniform color during the year and red ' onnes have been placed on lamps near l he fire engine houses The Willow / treet roadway and bridge have been I veil lighted on account of the large l mount of travel between the Eighth \ nd Twelfth wards. Sixty-five dead osts have been removed during the I ear Some way should be provided so ' hat in these cases the walks can be re- laced in good shape. As it is now, it :. 5 a just compaint of the property own rs. All orders from the Court of Com lon Council have been executed.
 To the officers and patrolmen of the |, office department for their kind assist L nee we are grateful.
 Respectfully submitted,
 HENRY HOPKINS, 6