The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-07
RIVAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING
RS rRE PLAN or sHEEBAN WITH
MN not CHIT FRANCHISE.
Power Piar, Of Course Goes WIN Lighting
Plant and C~heapness Is the Promise
" INOadley said Not to Alto
rether Let 60 Of HlS Manhattan Tran
III COmDAny.

ssther Let Ga Of Hls Manhattan Tran
~ Company.
John c. sheehan said yesterday that the
first Use TO be made Of the franchises he
and his associates secured with the Man
haitian Transit Company and the. Long
Acre Light and Power Company would
he the construction OF a plant to furnish
electric light and power in opposition to
The Consolidated Gas Company. A syndi-
cate. 30 said, had undertaken to under
write ss.ooo,GOO bonds. and his company
had made arrangements for all the money
il Wori need. .,.
q and nv associates" said Mr.. Sheehan
in tylewrtten statement, have been
ovine miserable attention to a COM
paracn Of TO electric service in this, tho
mos, aggressive city in the world. with
the q, tcr cities and towns Of our country,
and we have been surprised TO find how
inadcuuate the service is. Whereas there
should be = kilowatt Of power for every
? ten Inhabitants, this city has only a little
morp than oue-third Of this. There are
whole districts that are not only not sup-
nlied with electric power and light, but
seem to have no immediate prospect of
getting It. II is doubtful II the existing
company can take care Of the natural in
crease If the demands Of their present
PATRONS, to say nothing Of supplying the
unlGf'cf field.
We also are going to take advantage Of
TIE recent tremendous improvements in
electric igatS and apparatus for producing
electricity. We start out clean, without
an encimhrlnce Of accumulated debt or
ac,umrated Junk. We shall have only the
bc I and most up to date, and our engineers
assure IL that we shall produce electricity
AZ an economy so far ahead Of anything
in eyisionra to-day as to render possible
he rse of electric light by everybody.
We EN- ect TO sound the death knell of gas
- ar iUumindnt.
"Tao-e r-~N'rkS apply equally to the
IN ishing Of p wei FOR electric elevators,
W rkshDYs - factories. With electric
D rver produced AZ economically "a we claim
I, be able 10 produce il We shall have
i olsted refrigeration plants in almost every
book OF the city. making cold air aud drv
\ frigeration upon the spot where il Il
q eded, thus doing away with the numbering
Of ice through the city streets. We IAN
figure that this business alone will net
,s an enormous revenue, for we can pro-
duce refrigeration for considerably less
than the price for which the ice trust can
furnish an equivalent amount Of cold by
means If ice. We also have in mind the
Use Of electric fire pumps, with electric
sockets at every fire plug"
Mr., Sheehan said the fra nchise OF the
Long Acre Company covered only the
territory between Forty-second and Fifty
ninth streets. Fast and North rivers. But
in 1894 there was granted by the Board OF
Aldermen a franchise to supply electric light
and power in all Manhattan aud this fran
chise, granted originally to the American
Electrical Manufacturing Company. has
I tely come into Mr.. SheehAn's possession.
W. H.. Knight, formerly OF the General
Electric Company. is one OF the men asso-
GATED with Mr.. Sheehan. Several of the
others reside in Cleveland.
II was reported on very good authority
yesterday that Joseph b. Hoadley has
not sold all his holdingB In Manhattan
Transit to Mr.. Sheehan. but on the other
hand is closely associated with him.