Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-29

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Answer: The changes in the top
carbon holders were made ABOUT tmo
months later, and the changes IN the
dash pots were also completed aooue
that time.
Question:: The changes in the
dash pots and carbon holders were
made in two months.
Answer: Yes, sir.
nnestion. did not understand
you to have said anything oeioie
about any top carbon holders.
Answer: That's the top carbon
holder, That's this coiled pig tail
Question: Why did you write
two other letters to the company
recommending the the same changes!
Answer: In order to get 1t done.
Question: 1t took two months 10
get it done?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: Did you write the othea
two letters within the two months:
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: When did you sever
YOUR connections as engineer Will
The Alexandria Electric Company!
Answer: In the month of june
1909. 49,, .nd
again in May you wrote to them
about this?
Answer: Yes, SIT.
Question. If you wrote in Janu-
ary and the changes were maue III |.
two months what was the object OF
vonr writing again in April and May
when the changes had been made!
Answer: On the 23rd of Feoru-
.rv wrote to Mr.. Mclver, ana re.
commended these changes again. II
Won will remember my testimony
said it took all of two months TO
Get them. On March Oath !! "Iote
Rim again the work of overhaullng
tbe arc lamps had not been COM
nleted and called his attention again
r. the carbon holders. That was
Tho renort at the end Of March. Here
;s q letter dated the 9Th OF April III
which I told him that Mr.. Uhler SAID
tho service was improving and ala
mt call his attention again to the
wav in which the lamp should pc
trimmed because | did not want TO
keen on repeating the same tnlng.
Question: At the time the changes
IN the lamps were made from 90 10
* amperes was anything changed IN
the lamps but the series COILS, II thes
were changed? coon+
Answer: believe not, except
that a number of new lamps we're
purchased. l don't know how many.
Question:: / mean in the ramps
that were recoiled? o;,
Answer: Nothing but the one COLI
was changed to my knowledge
Question: If in the evening Wnen
tho current is on the light what IS
tbe trouble? What is that due 10!
Answer: To the fact that II the
current is at once brought up to the
fnll value of 7h, as the coils ana
tho regulators warm up in the CIT
cuits: the current ought not to be
started at the full value at once
they ought TO start at seven ana TWO
or three-tenths and gradually prlng
II m They they would not run that
risk. That is to save the gas caps
not TO save the current. :,
Question: Should that apply TO all
the lamps in the circuit?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question:: Assuming that the
lamp on the corner Of King and tal1-
fay streets when it is first lighted
begins TO flicker and flickers on that
way for two or three hours, Wnlie
other lamps on King street, say the
lamp at the corner of King ana
Royal streets is burning brightly.
what is the nansa nf-IA-'-: - -
the individual lamp.
Question: You have told us the
candle power of a gas flame, or
piece of hot steel, and OF the sun,
what is the candle power of these
arc lamps on the streets in the city
of Alexandria?
Answer: $50 or $50, possibly 400
candle power.
Question: In answer to question
asked by Mr.. Harlow you said that
if the trimming of the lamp were
changed as you had recommended
that that would put the company IN
a position to fulfill the terms OF the
contract with the city. Do you mean
to tell us that this unsatisfactory
condition of the lights about whicnr
YOU have previously testified would
be entirely remedied by that?
Answer: Granting that the cur
rent is the correct amount, the only
trouble | could see was in the lamps
and in the behavior OF the resGia-
tors
assumption that the proper current
is maintained and the lamps are prop.
erly trimmed and that the action OF
the regulators are proper. Can you
state whether the proper current is
going through the lamps?
Answer: Up TO fourteen months
ago when visited the plant frequent
ly it was.
Question: How often did you visit
the plant?
Answer: Twice month and some
times three or four times up to May.
Question: AT the time you left the
company had the regulators been
changed? Had they been adjusted?
Answer: How do you mean adjust
ed?
Question: | understand you stated
YOU had man here from Fort Wayne
to adjust the regulators?
Answer: He found no trouble with
them, he said. In other words there
was nothing he could do.
Question: Was the defective condl-
tioin of the regulators ever changed
while you were in the service OF the
company?
Answer: No, sir.
Question: Has it been done up to
this time?
Answer: l know nothing about
since that time.
Question: Do you think you can
take 6.6 ampere lamp and simply
change the series coil and that lamp
will then perform satisfactory SER
vice with T IS coils in it?