The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-11

The Dill for the Edison company for
/ lighting Kansas avenue on a trial was
! S65 3. year per lamp. It is not costing
a whit more under the municipal own
ership.
Rebuild the plant with considera-
/ ton Of future growth, vote sufficient
| bonds to accomplish this purpose and
/ then turn over the management to
commission and out of the hands Of the
| council and the problem Of municipal
| lighting for Topeka will be solved
/ bond issue of $4,000 win provide for
$50 lamps, GO more than are now in
use and rebuild the plant entirely. But
it doesn't take care of the future
growth Fifty thousand dollars VIII
| amply take care Of any needed future
| expansion.
At present there are $50 street lights
in service with about 1 600 street inter-
sections. Councilman c. K. Holiday
claims that a. light should be provided
for every one Of those intersections.
He believes that at least 500 arc lamps
should be provided for and the remain
1 der should be taken care or by gas
| lamps which the Welsbach Street
Lighting company offers to install.
A representative of that company
was before the committee last evening
and made the following proposition.
Three hundred lamps of 100 candle
power each, all night service. for five
years contract on unpaved streets $22
each per year, on paved streets $23.
on q ten year contract $21 on unpaVed
/ Z 10
dition he agrees to furnish street signs
on a ten year contract free of charge.
I'VE claim more even and better dis
tribution on shaded streets than any
other light especially arc lights. said
/ Mr. Bingham of the Welsbach COM
/ pany. Councilman Swendson favored
a $4,000 bond issue and making
! contract with the Welsbach company
for 300 additional lamps. The main
! tenance of a plant rebuilt at a cost of
$4,000 would be $4,000 a year ac-
! cOrding to the statement by H. K.
Goodrich. the superintendent Of the
plant. Twelve per cent for deprecia-
ton a year would be additional
$4,000. The yearly cost would be
$4,000 for 400 lamps this is at a
rate of less than $50 a year per lamp.
The estimate includes all night ser
vice every night Eve would have
ample room without adding on to the
buildings if we add to the machinery
to equip for 400 lamps. if we exceed
that, or rather 500 lamps, we would
have to add to the buildings" said
/ Goodrich.
six hundred and twenty lamps
would light the whole city beyond
criticism is the claim which Mr..
! Goodrich makes.
Councilman Simms expressed him
self in favor of $4,000 bond issue
and said that he thought the people
would vote for it. The estimate of
Mr.. Goodrich for rebuilding the plant
at cost of s25. 900 follows:
Boiler room ......S $4,000
Pump room ..... 100000
Dynamo room. ..... 12.979.O0
Wire, poles, etc. 1890. 6.581.00
s25.OOo.OO
One statement which Mr.. Goodrich
made last night could not be recon-
ciled with statements which have been
made previously. According to Good
rich if the plant is rebuilt the ninety
j new Warner arc lamps will have to
/ be thrown away. According to War
ner his lamps will work better by cut
4 ting down the amperage of the dyna-
mos from 9.6 to SIS. Goodrich says
/ that the lamps will be useless Who is
right It would pay to make sure first
| because the lamps cost the city sew
eral thousand dollars.
Mr.. Goodrich's report submitted fol-
lows:
BY direction of the council this de-
( partment was ordered to furnish you
with an estimate OF cost for betternent
4 and increase of the electric light plant.
First. the boiler room: Needed
/ high pressure boilers; dimension.
/ feet diameter, length IS feet; the cost
of which is S3,340.00 IN place with all
| appliances ready for operation.
Second, the pump room: One boil
er feed pump at a cost Of $4,000; wa
ter purifier for steam purposes. ap-
/ proximate cost 81 500.
Third. engine room: Has one
standard Sioux City Corliss engine %
/ by 40 inches, able to drive 500 arc
I lights; one Bates feed water heater,
1 both in good condition
Fourth, dynamo room. Requires the
I four Wood arc machines reWound to
/ So amperes at an approximate cost of
/ $2,60O.00, this includes freight charges
| each way, also includes rewinding
| armatures and refillfng conmutators,
/ installing new regulators and new reg
ulator magnets on all machines.
One new generator at a cost Of ST.
$4,000, all in place, belted and con-
nected with switch board Four hun
bred series direct current arc lamps
| camplete with glassware, at approx
mate cost Of Ss,529.O0 including 400
/ absolute cut outs.
Wire. poles and fixtures for lamps in
an unknown quantity until lamps are
! located
However. think s6.5s1.ooo will
meet the above requirements.
The plant with these improvements
can be operated on all night and every
night schedule. When it comes to
competitive bidding these prices may
be reduced.
The cost of operating the plant per
annum when so equipped will cost an
/ proximateiy s15,OOO.0O. Together with
| the interest and depreciation on S25.-
/ O0O.00 at IL per cent makes a total
cost Of s1s,00O.0O.
At the present cost Of an all night