The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-10
81 S45,3S0 90
s9,076 90

S9,Uio w
"A saving annually Of $3,561.0O, and
owning the lamps valued at s1O,62o.W
and cost thereafter to maintain all
not more than s6, 951.0O against
present cost of $40, 521.0O.
900 CANDLE POWER LAMPS, OIL
AT u CENTS PER GALLON"
Burning on an average of 10 hours
per night, 1c per hour average test,
equal to 1Oc per night, or $3.50 per lamp
per year or 365 days.
- nantes per month at 2Oc each, S4.oO
per lamp per year or 365 days.
Labor and attention per lamp s12.OO
per lamp per yea or 3e5 days.
Cost on deterioration of value of
lamp at 2 per cent. s1.7O per lamp per
year or 365 days.
or 365 days.
II, 900 CANDLE POWER LAMPS, OIL
AT u CENTS PER GALLON
Burning on an average of 10 hours
lper night, 1-2c per hour average test,
lequal to sc per night, or $3.50 per lamp
lper year or 800 days.
i mantle per month at zoe each $40
Iper lamp per year or 365 days.
Labor and attention per lamp $1,000
lper lamp per year or 365 days.
Cost of deterioration of value OF
lamp at , per cent Sc per lamp per year
lor 365 days.
Total cost $3.50 per lamp per year
lor 365 days"
After the bids and reports had been
Tread the representatives of the two
companies were invited % speak.
Mr.. John r. Turrentine, Jr., said he
lfelt that the light committee had tully
Explained the matter in its report ana
consequently there was rOthIng for MIN
Ito say just at present, save TO empha-
lsize the fact that the expense of oper-
lating the Kitson lights had been based
mot on a moonlight schedule, but for the
lentire year.
Mr.. Hugh MacRae, president OF the
Consolidated Railways, Light ana POW
Ter Company, addressed the board IN
advocacy of the present lights. He said
THAT the board of aldermen had consld-
Tered the bids in his absence and without
1.-The company's knowledge, which had
lacted as a handicap, but that he 1elt
THAT the aldermen were men OF gDSl
business judgment n that, II given
the opportunity, he thought he could az
least show a majority Of them that tne
contemplated step was an unWlse one
He also stated that when his
lWent to the expense of $4,000 to 1nstall
1.-The closed lights now in use that the
hoard of aldermen pledged their moral
support of a continuation Of the con-
tract for more than a year, the time
lalloWed by law, and that the company
had installed and operated the ne"
- onCt 70 fhE
lcitv, Without a doubt, he said, the
l~present system is the best in the world
land is used by SO per cent OF the pro-
lgressive and Modern cities tor tHe
=, bulk of their lighting. He said that
: Though it had been stated that the
lKitson lights are used in Washington
: D. c., he had failed to see any OF then
in that city. and that relative to thu
t lights being in use in Baltimore ina
lhe would venture the assertion that i
Twas very seldom you ever saw one O.
= THAT class of lights there. The lighting
s Icapacity of the present lamps, he SAID
+ lis greater than the old arc lamps
. Though of a softer nature, n that n
Y was ready at any time TO prove thi
< statement by a comparison, and tina
: the expense of operating the presen
h naI0DS was more llldu lhdI LII IN VI
! Zones as they require % per cent NOR
n !current. He said that since the ne'
~ isystem had been in vogue that he ha
lOnly heard of two lights being out a
night when they were supposed to b
! burning, but that in future the compan
-, would be willing TO make a deductiO
= for every light reported out and If tn
~ light was defective to replace it wit
- "a new one.
i Mr.. MacRae then went on %. spea
ic iabout the deterioration of a ightlr
f. iplant and said that he felt certain tn;
i'm the case OF the kitson lights this ha
III been under estimated. as within t
It. wears three lighting plants had BET
m worn out in Wilmington and that
iyentured to say that during the IA
" fifteen years no money "a been ma
lie by furnishing the city with lights. T
SIS laIso called attention TO the fact tn
Tn lin & new venture the expense alWa
ms lexoeeds the amount counted upon, a
NJ cited as an illustration the suburb
lines sub-station at Wrightsville. T.
M station. he said, experts a assur
mi the company would be complete n
fo~ Operation for a certain amount. but II
it had exceeded this estimate by slO,o
1lE- tine SUM necessary ~ |NoAN NH
lparts in order to obtain perfect opel
The ltion. He also alluded to city W
u: ship. saying that very Few cities 4
found it profitable on account OF OF
: M changes in administration, which III
lplaces by politics n not by eflclen
: 90 Relative to this he called attention
q on the street roller, which now repo:
| 90 out of commission, in the city hall va
land the rock quarry.
0 90 Mr.. Turrentine replied to MT Macl
about the Kitson lights in Baltimore
5 90 Saying that there were over o'0oo
these lamps now in use in that c
Is 90 In New York, he said, the hitson c.
i 90 pany's expense account is $4,000
i 90 week for operating its lamps there.
Il 90 Ito the deterioration, he said the all
90 men had estimated it at = per cent
-- iannum and that his company was