The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-30
WON'T SELL NOW
Council Turns Down Proposition
TO Buy Light Plant.
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another Proposition to Use the
Edison Current.
FOR TEST PURPOSES.
General Electric Company Offers
to Use 1t.
The Third Institution Offering
to Sell Lights.
OR TEST PURPOSES.

The General Electric company pro-
pose that the city should test. 100 of
Its type of enclosed arc lamps for
a period of six months and that the
lamps be placed on an Edison Electric
Light company's circuit. 1t is claimed
that this is an effort on the part of the
Edison company to secure a contract
to do the city's lighting. 1t is a part
of the plan to put an end to city own
ersIlip of the lighting system.
A proposition which will embody
this test will be made by R: D. Schaef-
fer, representative of the General Elec-
trio company, some time today to
Councilman J. w. F. Hughes, chair
man of the council committee on gas
and electric lights.
The committee placed on file the
communication from E. E. Roudebush
who wishes to purchase the city cleo
! trio light plant Until we have an
to light these streets we are not in a
position to consider the sale of this
plant said C. X Holiday
With this disposition. the committee
Immediately turned to the discussion
of purchasing new enclosed arc lamps
for the plant. The present lamps are
of the open are system and are anti
quated and in very mad shape. About
In1IIy-lWO idIlQS over the ely Ac1NC
gone dead within the past three
months. This leaves but $40 lamps IN
service, seriously Gripping the eff
cheney of the city's lighting system
Daily other lamps are becoming less
efficient and it is absolutely imperative
to make some purchases of new lamps
of an improved pattern. The commit
tee has been considering two offers
from two different companies. the
Warner Electric company and the
Fort W0Nrla Electric eOn0nanV. Last
night the representative of a third
company, the General Electric COM
pany, made his appearance before the
committee and stated his proposition.
tons vary widely. The Warner COM
pany claim that they can put their
type of enclosed arc lamp on the
dynamos at the plant on the present
amperage of 9.6, the Fort Wayne COM
pany claim that the Warner company
cannot do this and give satisfaction
with any type of enclosed arc lamp no
matter what manufacture. The War
ner people offer to give a $1,000 guar
antee bond to cover that claim which
they make. The Warner company is
new company and but lately organized.
The Fort Wayne company says that It
is necessary to rewind the dynamoS at
the plant in order to use their lamp;
they won't guarantee satisfaction UNI
less this is done. If this rewinding is
done to bring down the amperage
from so TO DO less CuII6nt Will US
used for an equal number of lamps
BY rewinding the dynamos though you
make it necessary to add another
dynamo, because you cut down the
number of lamps which each dynamo
can carry when you reWind them.
Both of these lamps use carbons but
they burn on an average about 80
hours without trimming or ref1tting
with new carbons. This means a
great saving in the carbons and cuts
tho of fEfY aYz IN
one man. The General Electric COM
pany's proposition looks expensive. It
means the RELOCATION of all the ma
chinery which is now in use to the
junk pile. They claim that new
dynamo, turbine, will have to be in
stalled. With the installation of this
turbine the lamps using an amperage
of four make it possible to furnish suf-
ficient current for 500 lamps on the
amount of fuel used now to furnish
power for generating current for 342
lamps. No increase in the boiler ca
pacity, no heavier expenditure for
coal, greater circuit, these are the
features which the General Electric
company makes prominent. The lamp
of the General Electric company uses
no carbon at all but uses electrodes.
This does away with the purchase of
carbOnS entirely. One man can attend
to 500 lamps is the further contention.
st. Joseph, Mo. is now installing $50
of these lamps.
I This proposition involves an ex-
| travagant expenditure. 1t means ex-
pending upwards of $4,000 and
| tying I'D of the plant for from to IL
months. In the meantime the city
will have TO depend on its current for
electric light from the Edison COM
pany. Tt is here that there is prob
ability that an attempt will be made
to hang I'D a contract on the city.
At present the ways and means
committee and the gas and electric
committee are at outs over the Warner
and the Fort Wayne companies bids
/ The former of the two committees
contend that the Fort Wayne com
pany's offer is the one which should
be accepted. The gas and electric
lights committee are equally confident
that the Warner company's bid is by
| far the better of the two. Both of
| these committees We're intrusted by
| the council with the task of making a
recommendation during the past three
months that this agitation for the pur-
chase of new lamps has been up.
The best method to settle this con-
1 troversy, as has been suggested, is to
appoint committee of three expert
electricians living in the city and let
them recommend to the council their
findings on the three lamps This
meets the endorsement of Mayor w
H. Davis as well as Councilman S. T.
Howe and Councilman VIM. Green.
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