The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-22
IS COMPETITION.
Many Kinds of Lights Proposed for
TOpeka's White Way.

It looks now as though within a short
! time Kansas avenue will be ablaze
with lights Of varied descriptions. In
terest in the proposed great white
way" is on the increase, and there
seems to be sharp competition on the
part of lighting firms which desire the
contract for making the broad main
thOroughfare of the capital city an
example of Splendor.
The Pinter Gasoline Lighting conf
pany of Chicago is now proposing to
place two, two thousand candle power
lights in front of the Robinson & Mar
shall store. In a communication to
the Commercial club a representative
of the company writes:
I'VE would install u poles in a block
with lighting capacity of 1000 candle
power-siX poles on each side of the
block-for $1,073. and will maintain the
lights from dusk until midnight, seven
days in the week, for S3.75 per light.
THE fixtures which this proposal
covers are of dignified proportions and
substantial designs. The light supplied
is a powerful white light of high IL
Eliminating value.
1.-The distribution of the light more
nearly approaches the lines laid down
by scientific investigation than any
other fixture practical for street light
ing. The lights are successfully used
in Chicago, Hartford. Conn; Winni-
peg, Manitoba; Quebec, and other
cities"
The Topeka Edison company now has
q sample of the light, cluster in front
of the office building, w'ticn the con-
Germ hopes to install. This company
would put in twelve posts to the block
400 candle power per post-for ST. a
block, and would charge S. per post for
operating the same for four hours.
The gas company will have installed
on it's poles in front of the office in
the eight hundred block on Kansas
avenue two Humphry inverted are
lamps having a capacity of 500 candle
power. The firm would put in a dozen
posts to the block at a cost of $3.50, and
would leave the lights burning from
dusk until midnight for So post. This
new lamp is said to give an extremely
effective light.
within two weeks" said Secretary
George S. Badders of the Commercial
club, various styles of lights Will be
installed, and the Commercial club
would like to have the expression of the
people as to which method or system
of lighting would best serve the pur-
pose in Topeka.
1.-THE citizens of Topeka seem to be
taking a keen interest in the proposed
lighting system and it certainly seems
that the capital city should not be out
done by Lawrence and other towns"
No meeting of the special lighting
committee of the Commercial club will
be held until after Thanksgiving, as
Robert Stone, who was to look up the
law in respect to the question as to
whether the property owners can be
made to. assess themselves for the
maintenance of the lights.
If the abutting property owners were
to stand the cost of the lights there
would be, unless the influence of the
law were brought to bear on the propo-
sition a few unsightly gaps in the reg
ular row of fixtures. In other words,
there would be a. few property owners
who are not public spirited who would
fIatl-- refuse to pay their share of the
expense Of maintaining a great whit,
way"
The merchants who have expressed
themselves in respect to the scheme
thus far, however. have been en-
thusiastic over the plan. In one or two
of the cities where a white way is an
advertising factor in the town, tbs
abutting property owners pay per-
centage of the cost of maintaining the
lights and the people at large are also
| taxed. on account of the benefit which
| the city as a whole derives