The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-23
A CITY OF LIGHT
This Is the Plans of City Elec-
tric Light Trustees.
Seyenty-Five New Lights Order
ed for Dark Corners.
MUST TRIM TREES.
TREES.
City Will Demand That Shadows
Be Gut Away.
Re- Circuiting of Electric Light
System This Summer.

AT meeting OF the city DOdrQ OF
electric light trustees the other night,
it was decided that Topeka should be
city of light and that all of the
requests for arc lamps which have
been handed the board would be full
filled wherever practical.
It was also decided to make Topeka
a city of flights every block instead
of the old system of alternating
blocks,'' which has been in practice
ever since the matter first took hold
under municipal control.
About $4,000 worth of materials
were ordered for the purpose of car
rying out this mammoth lighting prop
OSition and as soon as the shipments
are made the installation of the addi-
tional lights, the wires and the plant
ing of poles will be commenced.
The board gave superintendent
Goodrich authority to order at once, a
number of cars of poles, six miles of
eight-inch weather proof copper wire
and rs transformers of the latest type.
This new material will be used to
string a new circuit over the city and
give better service to the lamps now In
use. Seventy-five new lamps have also
been ordered and it is expected that
they will all be installed before the
summer is over.
There are now about 400 lamps in
use over the city and the capacity of
the plant in good running condition is
500. This new material Will place the
municipal lightning plant in the best
condition in its history. Superintendent
Goodrich has done much toward it's
present capacity and value to the city.
Light the Parks.
1t is the intention of the electric
light trustees to light all of the city
parks, making them beautiful place
on summer evenings. These new large
Tungsten lamps will be placed around
the parks. The Tungsten lamp is a
new chapter in city street lighting and
good test of their value will be given
by the city board.
Since the new sentiment in regard
to new and better parks in the city the
necessary that these parks now in con-
dition be ighted-especially during the
summer months. There is a move on
hand to give band concerts all over
the city in the different parks and the
proposition to light them and make
sorts comes to the electric light COM
mission.
Many complaints have come to the
electric light and park commissioners
of the city that in some of the out
lying parks the dense shrubbery and
coy hooks have been made hiding
places for toughs of the town and also
for indecent actions of others.
This year the trustees have decided
to do away with the trouble by giving
the parks more light. 1t is thought
that all that is needed to do away
with this trouble is light.
There are a number of dark cor
ners in the city that have been made
dangerous since the innovation of au-
tomobiIing. Since the creation of a
series of boulevards Tin all but name)
in the west part of the city including
Sixth and Tenth avenues, number
of the alternating dark corners have
become exceedingly dangerous to pc
destrians as we'll as autoists.
The electric light trustees will make
thorough investigation of all these
dark corners and install lights where
ever needed. Along Sixth avenue from
Kansas avenue almost to the asylum,
lights will adorn every corner. On
Tenth avenue to Christ's hospital. the
same scheme will be followed out.
1t is also planned by the trustees
to demand that people trim their
trees. A large number of corners are
dangerous only because people refuse
to trim their trees and the lights are
thrown directly down to the pavement
and are of no use to the rest of the
street-and the dark corner beyond
1t is thought that a tree trimming
order will remedy number of the
darker spots in Topeka.