Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
BETTER CITY LIGHTING
More Lamps Asked for Down.
town Streets.
ENGINEER ALIENS REPORT
Improvements Recommended in
Many of Principal Thoroughfares.
ISLES OF SAFETY ON AVENUE
Incandescent Lamps Favored for
10Th Street From II Street to the
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relative importance Of the projects. are
Pennsylvania avenue from LIST to 18TH
| street northwest: 10th street from Penn
sylvania avenue to I street: 7th street
| from Pennsylvania avenue to New York
avenue; Maryland avenue from LIST to 18th
street northeast; New York avenue from
9th to 18th street northwest; Massachu-
| sets avenue from 9th street to Dupont
Circle; Pennsylvania avenue from 10Th to
| 18th street; 9th street from Pennsylvania
| avenue to New York avenue; around
| Mount Vernon square: F street from 7th
to 18th street; G street from 7th to 18th
| street: around Lafayette Square, not in
| Guiding Pennsylvania avenue side; Yer
| mont avenue from II street to Thomas
| Circle: Pennsylvania avenue from 18th
street to- Rock creek, and K street from
9th street to Washington Circle.
Poles in Middle Of Street.
| On several of these thorouShfares Elec-
| trical Engineer Allen recommends the
placing of some lights on poles erected in
the middle of me street. On account OF
the dense foliage and the width of some
of the streets. he regards this mode OF
providing light at night necessary.
For Pennsylvania avenue. the electrical
| engineer says, special treatment is nee
| essary on account of its great width and
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| Il would urgently recommend he
says, that lamps be placed on posts
| erected in the roadway on what are
| commonly known as isles Of safety
long by six feet wide. located adjacent
! to the outer rails of the street car
tracks, at the regular stopping points
! for the cars. Where the distance be-
tween intersecting streets is too great
for good distribution of the light in
! termediate lamps can be placed on cir
cular islands six feet or less in diame-
ter. At one end OF each Of these oblong
| islands a post should be placed from
| which the lamps are to hang. With the
| spacing of the islands as I have indt-
| Gated on the plat accompanying thio
report about fifty will be required and
the lamps will average 125 feet apart
and will form two rows of light down
the roadway. The locations Of the Is
lands are. of course, only approx
mately indicated; their exact location
will be definitely determined after the
approval OF the plan.
TT is proposed that the lamps in the
roadway shall burn only one-half of
the night, experimenting the present
lamps, a portion of which will burn all
night. 1t is estimated that about thirty :
eight out Of the present sixty-eight
lamps can be turned off dur ing the first
half Of the night. the remaining thirty
lamps being kept in service during that
period to light the sidewalks where
the trees are thick.
Three Plans for Avenue.
He submits three plans for lighting
Pennsylvania avenue. one contemplat-
ing the use Of flaming arc lamps in
the middle of the roadway and at the
curb. second contemplating the use
Of ordinary arc lamps and third look
ing to the placing of lamps only at the
curb. The plan which he indicates as
the most practicable provides for the
substitution for the eighty-one arc lamps
now used Of ninety-two arc lamps
which will burn all night and forty five
arc lamps which will burn only half
the night. placed in the roadway and
at the curb. and increasing the cost CT
lighting the street from $6,SS5 TO
$9,s6O.
On 18th street between Pennsylvania
avenue and 1 street it is proposed to
substitute for the seven arc and the two
OO-candlepower incandescent lamps sew
enteen arcs. to be placed on the curbs, in
creasing the cost from s715 to $1.445.
On 18th street from Pennsylvania to New
York avenues the electrical engineer rec
ommends the replacing OF twenty arcs,
maintained now at cost of $1,7OO. with
thirty arcs to burn all night and twenty
three arcs to burn half the night at a
cost of $500.
This street although clear Of trees ;,
Tays by amp Ae en- one side only
longitudinal spacing OF over 200 feet. A
most uniform illumination will be secured
by the placing Of lamps on both sides
of the street.
streets northeast, now lighted by seventy
six gas and three arc lamps, it is rec
commended that sixty arc lamps be placed
in the center of the roadway, increasing
the cost from 1885 to S.. 100 Where this
! thoroughfare passes around Stanton
Square the lamps would be put on the
curb line, as the roadways at that point
are narrower than on other portions OF
the street.
On New York Avenue.
On New York avenue from 9th to 18th
streets the existing arc lamps are in
the roadway adjacent to the street car
tracks and in line with the trees. The
additional lamps numbering fifteen.
would be placed in the same lines. The
cost would be increased from $1,000 to
1926
Along Massachusetts avenue from 9th
street to Dupont Circle, not including
Thomas Circle, it Is recommended that the
siXty-one gas and six arc lamps be re-
placed by sixty-two arc lamps to be
placed in the center Of the curb except
around circles. This would mean al
increase of cost from Sits to s5,27O.
| Pennsylvania avenue from 18th to nth
street. in front of theWhite House. the
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| building, he says, should receive special
| treatment, adding twelve more arc lamps
to the eleven already maintained there.
| The unused lamppostS on the stone bal
ustrade surrounding the State. War and
Navy building, it Is declared, could, at
slight expense, be adapted to arc light
| ing. The increase In cost for lighting
the thoroughfare would be from 1886 to
81, 955
For the fifteen arc lamps now main
| tanned on 9th street between Pennsyl-
| vania avenue and New York avenue, 1t
| Is proposed to substitute thirty arc lamps
| to burn all night and twenty-five arc
| lamps to burn half the night, increasing
the cost from 81 ,265 to $3.50.
| when the Public Library was built in
Mount Vernon Square," the report says.
provision was made for placing lamp
posts at the inner side OF the sidewalk
at the main entrance. Lack of funds.
however, prevented the superintendent
of the building from purchasing the
| posts. AS a temporary measure some
old gas posts. formerly used within the
| square, were erected around the building
| and are now used for supporting the arc
lamps with which the square is lighted.
These should be replaced by posts de-
signed to harmonic with the building,
| and be erected at the places provided
| for them in the original plans"
T and G Streets.
| On F street from 18th to 18th street,
which now is lighted by nineteen arc
lamps a, q cost Of &l6lb. and on q