The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-21
THE NEW LIGHTS
The Committee on Lighting
Locates Them.
They Will Be in Operation in Two
Weeks-Comparison of the
Cost of Lighting.

of the American Development com
pany have held meeting and made a
plat showing the location of the new
! lights. 1t was decided to take twenty
six of the /, 600 candle power pressure
lights and 1877 of the 60-candle power
boulevard lights The arc or pres
sure lights will be located along Front
street one block apart, and at railroad
crossings, the central fire station, the
postoffice, and on Main street at Sec
ond and Fourth Twelve will be on
posts and fourteen suspended at inter
sections One of the boulevard lights
will be placed wherever there is an
incandescent now, and two or three of
them will be used where arcs are dis
placed, at the crossing and at the
center of the blocks. The number of
lights can be increased at any time
The contract is being drawn up by
City Attorney Daley, and to aid in
this the lighting specifications of st.
Paul are being used. The city en-
gineer of st. Paul has informed the
local officials that no trouble of any
kind has occurred in the dealings
there with the American Development
company, which has $500 lights in
use there. The contract and specifca-
tions will be submitted to the council
next Friday night for approval and
it will be signed Immediately after
wards. The councils will also deter
mine the amount of the bond to be re-
quired.
The company will not wait for the
contract to be signed. but will proceed
at once to put in the lamps, and ex-
poets TO have them all in and ready
for use by December 1st Two Car
loads of material are expected to ar
rive in Mankato today and tomorrow,
and Superintendent Seeger will direct
the placing of the lamps. He states
that the lamps will be even more
satisfactory than the samples shown,
as the posts will be higher. A force
of men will be put at work at once,
excayating for the gasoline plants I'M
der the posts.
The company takes care of the
lights, leaving nothing for the city to
do. Four or FIVE men will be employ
ed constantly to light and extinguish
the lamps, and they are to see that
the proper pressure is used and are to
clean the globes once a week and
promptly replace broken incandesceni
mantels. All of the ighus are created
from gas generated from gasoline an
kerosene, and passing through the
incandescent mantels. Two of thu
employees will be furnished will
horses and carts. Nearly all of tn
contract price will be expended IL
Mankato for labor and material.
| The American Development com
pany has placed lights in thirty min
cities, from New York to San Fran
cisco, and from Is, 100 lights in cit
down to few hundred. Winona
thinking of changing its street light
ing system from electricity to tn
gasoline gas lights, and one of the a.
dermen has been in the city lookin
at the samples When the plant is
l operation. delegation from tn
4 council of Winona is expected to Wis
the city.
The street committee, at it's meetir
: Yesterday, made some figures on tt
lighting of the streets.
:. Under the present system and col
q tract, the Mankato Gas and Electr
g Light company furnishes 60 arcs
d $74 each, or 81, no, and 11S incande
d cents of 80 candle power at sci eac
70 or So, 47S, making a. total of 81, IL
,. This is under the moonlight schedul
, which averages twenty nights
is month. The total candle power. callil
% the arcs /. 1000, is 1O2. 760.
D. The bid of the Mankato Gas a
to Electric Light company for one ye
70 under the every and all night schedl
was $105 for arc lights, or $50, ss5. a
ne $50 for incandescents, or So, $50,
n total of $40, 400. The candle pow
y. would be the same as now furnish'
es The American Development co
cn pany's bid for one year, every and
MS night service, which was accepted
% the council, and as agreed upon by
ne committee on lights, was S72 for
~ lights of 1000 candle power, or 81, s
and $31 for 1877 incandescents of 81
candlepower, or So. 597, a total
q" 81, 469. The aggregate candle po'
!, of these 213 lights is 1873, 200. Best
=. having the greater candle power,
- lighting will cost So. 9S6 less than
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