The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-03
SCOTTLAMPS BEST,
SAYS HATCH IN
SPIRITED REPLY.
Blames Public Service Oversight
for Any Trouble with His
Company's Arcs.
HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN
FAIR TEST, HE DECLARES
Quotes Figures Given by Rival
Concern TO FrOye His
Contentious.


Company, which manufactures the
flaming arc lamps now in use in Broad
street, and the Public Service Corpora
ton, which is being attacked by the
Market Street Business Mems Improve
men Association because the lights |
there do not equal in brilliancy those
Installed in South Broad street, is as
Stunning such proportions that City En-
gineer Morris r. Sherrerd has been
asked by both sides to make a test of
the relative value of the two lights,
and report. The request was made at
of the Board of Works, at its meeting
yesterday afternoon, when the Market
street men, the Public Service and
Scott firm had representatives present
to state their sides of the case.
Farley Osgood. the representative of
the Public Service, declared that the
only reason the Scott lights were
brighter than the Toerring lights in
Market street was because they were
consuming more than the contract
mount of electricity. He was not will
ing. he said. to allow that much to go
into the Market street lights. which,
he declared, under equal conditions,
were better than the Scott. He de-
clared that five new Scott lights, with
all the improvements that the manu-
facturers could put on them, and
which are now being tested In Broad
street, are not coming up to specifi-
cations.
When interviewed on the controversy
today, e. A. Hatch, vice-president of
the Scott Company, said that his lamp
had never received a fair trial, and
that under proper conditions and with
proper attention would vindlcate it
self.
I'VE have not received one dollar
from the Public Service for the lights
we ave had up there" he said. What
we want to do isso give them 100 cents
on the dollar for everything, but we
do not propose to be held up for it.
Our lights have been the butt of
every experiment in carbons that has
been made in Newark. No matter who
came along with a new carbon that he
wished tested out. 1t was put on our
&c >C1t - ~ VI ii3fIi DiofCa
failures, but the carbon was never
blamed. 9. no. it was the Scott light
that did IL.
That's what We've been up against
all along. Our lights have received the
poorest of attention. 1t is a gravity
fed lamp-that is. the carbons are
pushed down by gravity. The carbon
holders slide or rods to the top of the
| 11t,1n Nnnr 40, ia that ,rl1r
those rods are kept clean the holders
will not slide freely and in time the car
bon will burn down so that the light
will go out. Day after day we have
found the lamps so full of filth that the
carbons could not go through the holes
made for them.
I'VE are perfectly willing to admit
that the old lights which we have in
Broad street are not up to standard.
but we are perfectly willing to sub
stitute Il new lights, which are. In
the last eight months which have
passed since we put them in we ave
learned a great lea and our new
lights prove it. Mr.. Osgood talks a
great deal about the wattage of our
lights. In some cases he is right, but
in those he has mentioned he has
taken the highest OF the liz as an
example,
Here are some figures from his own
report. n light on lie. amperes had
an average wattage OF 1900: another or
12.S amperes, vantage. 1877;
another on 1874 amperes. 1852; another
on ia amperes, 1929; another on 1871
amperes, 1893, another on 1921 amperes.
1891; and another OF 11.9 amperes, 1900.
In most of those cases, the lights were
slightly grounded. but the ones which
he mentioned We're badly grounded and
showed that on an amperage OF 16.
the watta G was 1851; on 1876 amperes,
the wattage was 1851; on 1876 amperes
peres. it was 1912.
M Osgood says that there is nc
grounding. There is. Ours is a two
arc lamp. Those we first put out, had
the base cast In one piece. Therefore
whenever there was grounding on one
side, it was bound to cross over to the
other. In that way the current was
distributed all over that lamp. All OF
that current was not going into the
carbons to make light, by any means.
NOV as to that test in the New York
testing laboratories that Mr., Osgcol
spoke of. We received word one after
noon that one of our lights had been
sent over there to be tested out with a
Toering light. the kind in use in Mar
ket street. Mr.. Osgood said that he
would be glad to have our man present
at the test. The man we sent got over
there less than half an hour before the
test began, and had just that amount
of time in which to adjust the lamp
The Toering man was there from ;
o'clock ore Afternoon until 4 o'clock the
next morning putting his lamp ID
shape. That's the way the test wa:
made.
Mr.. Osgood talks Il great deal abou
The contract on the matter of wattage
! have nothing to do with the contrac
he made with the city which calls 70
about 1880 watts which, in my opin
ion. might mean anything. But my con
tract with the Public Service does no
mention anything about watts at all
We simply agree to give a steady ligh
at five volts above or below 1lO, Ther
is no mention of amperagc at all.
Another shortcoming in u lamp
that is in no way due to us is cause'
by lack of attention on the part o
the Publi- Service. Morning aftc
morning the lamps have to put them
selves out. that is. the carbon burn
down TO within a couple of inche
: OF the holder and then the lamp trips