Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-14

andria Electric Company AFTER you
We're employed by the city?
Mr.. Belts: Yes, sir.
Mr.. Spinks: Here in this report
from which | am reading (see page
h. The. Chairman: AS a member
of the Gas Light Committee / re-
member letter read before the COM
mittee stating that they were going
TO put in these lamps and asking the
committee to sign a letter stating that
they would not make any more COM
plant if they put them in. Mr..
Belts: No, they were not put In.
Mr.. Darrah put in some coils here,
but they were &C. amperes. Now
this witness has been employed by
the electric light company for the
past couple of years. Mr.. Belts: MI
Kirby don't know anything about IT,
Mr.. Spinks (still reading): My
information is that Mr.. Belts took for
granted that all the lamps had been
changed TO the seven ampere type,
and he so notified the committee and
then the company stopped paying re-
bates. One-third of the lamps they
have now still retain the old coils.
They have never been changed.
Mr.. Belts: l don't believe he
knows anything about 1t. He was
not employed at that time. He learn
ed what he knows about 1t from
LLOYD. | want you to understand my
nosition. | am not here TO defend
this company, | want you to under
tand this: These people delayed for
a long time doing what they were
supposed to do and what they could
have done, but they did it finally.
am not saying that the company Is
now satisfactory. ! want to show
YOU that the recommendations made
which would have made 1t satlsfact-
DRY have not been carried out. You
want to get my unbiased OPINION
You want the truth. | can't say they
did not make those changes.
Mr.. Spinks (reading further
What I meant was could we not test
those ourselves or would that be a
good test? Mr.. Kirby: Yes, the on
" test you could make would be foi
the wattage Of the lamp.
Mr.. Spinks: That would give 1t to
us any night that we took it; say
tonight, or tomorrow night, or any
night. what the shortage was? Mr
Kirby: Yes, sir. Mr.. Spinks: The
voltage at the plant could be raised
could it? Mr.. Kirby: The ampert
AT the plant could be raised and low
cred at will; it has been done.
Mr.. Spinks( of Mr.. Betts) l:
that a correct statement? Coulo
that be done?
Mr.. Belts: 1t could not.
Mr.. Spinks: You could increase
the voltage. ! want to ask TINS
How do YOU figure the watts? Don
YOU multiply the amperes by the Voit
age?
Mr.. Belts: Yes, sir.
Mr.. Spinks: II | had a 40 VOL
current on a 7 ampere lamp, ina
would be $50 watts?
Mr.. Belts: Yes, sir.
Mr.. Spinks: What would that d.
in candle power? 80.
Mr.. Belts: There is no relatloi
between them.
Mr.. Spinks: These questions ant
answers ! have read you were IRON
an employee of the plant.
Mr.. Belts: Mr.. Wicker down ther'
knows about that. You don't know
anything about it. You can't maxi
those lamps operate with amperes
| can tell you what the trouble is' TN
lamp is too sluggish.
MIR. Spinks: You will say that l
not the best type of lamp?
Mr.. Belts: Yes, sir. That III
opinion.
n Mr.. Spinks: 1t is not according u
our terms in our contract lot III
latest improved lamps?
Mr.. Betts: Here's the point:
don't think you ought to go back L
the time when they made the con
tract Co.
Mr.. Spinks (interrupting): Sup
nose we eliminate the contract, wher
would we be then?
Mr.. Belts: They have suffered
nenaltv of 20 per cent. They did no
nut in the right kind of lamps, blu
they changed them afterwards. NOW
has il been satisfactory since tn
change? That is the question at Is
sue. You say the lamp is not salts
factory and / agree with you, Du
that part has been settled. Inc
have made the change and put l
what was supposed to be the rign
lamp. but is the lighting satisfactory
Won saw no. agree with you. Wha
is wrong with it? That is the matte
TO be determined now, and IS 10 0
: decided after an examination OF IN
- conditions. The regulators WEI
sluggish; they did not work salli
factorily. We kept touching thel
; with a lead pencil that night dow
, there. and you could see that the II
= strument would vary. The regul'
tors were sluggish.
Y Mr.. Spinks: Suppose the met'
S showed rs amperes and the Vo
5 Mr.. Belts: Never mind that, II yo
. have the right current through Uni
g circuit.
e Mr.. spinks: Suppose they did nj
t have it? A.
S Mr.. Belts: They did a. the tin
r we made that test; and was the
: a couple of times a month or so art
a that. but | have not been in the plal
S since last June. The point is TIM
s that they did change the lamps VINE
= il was decided that they would ha'
| to be changed from &C ampere
n rs. They did t hat. Some ne
S lamps were put in to make up for q
J. ones burned out. The rest had col
s put in.
d Mr.. Spinks: If you were going
:. buy rs ampere lamps would you a
It cept the old Fort Wayne lamps IN
It had been 6.6 ampere lamps recon-
It as a is ampere lamp?
i Mr.. Belts: Certainly.
l. Mr.. Spinks: Would you not rath
e have a new lamp than to have an o
J. lamp rebuilt?
d Mr.. Belts: There is no diferen
d in the lamps. They are all right
l. they have the new coils in them.
p Mr.. Spinks They did not put
Of new lamps?
IN Mr.. Belts: They put up new col