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


business going on the street is badly
conducted if the company did not
have a globe TO substitute in the
place of one globe that they wanted
to take off?
MIR. Taught: 1t would look like
that if they were unable TO substitute
a lamp in case one got out OF order 1t
would look SO.
Mr.. Spinks: We carried a lamp to
Washington last night, and they only
gave us part of a lamp because they
had no inner globe to substitute for
the one they took down, nor an outer
globe, and we have not got that, and
il was stated that if globe was to
break on the street that they would
have no other TO replace it. You say
you don't know anything about the
plant?
Mr.. Taught: | have not been into
their store room. ] don't know any
thing about their supplies, of course.
Mr.. Spinks: You have made no ex-
animation of the lamp?
Mr.. Taught: OF only one of the
LAMPS that was on their test rack up
there.
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not run low voltage lamps at sc am
peres on these high voltage currents;
Yet If they should do that they say
the lamps would not burn. Now If
several of these lamps go out on the
street here and stay out for two or
three hours, and then when they are
put up again they go out again, would
not that be an indication of bad man
agement?
Mr.. Taught: Ii might or it might
not. A short circuit on the telephone
line might put out the lamp.
Mr.. Spinks Suppose you would
fix one, and then fix another, and
then fix another, and then the one
that they had fixed would go out
again, while they were fixing some of
the others. Our controversy has been
as to the lamps; that is what it is
about now You state that it has
recently been considered that the Y
ampere lamp is a nominal 1000 can
die power lamp?
Mr.. Taught Yes, sir, for the last
three or four years. Something like
that
Mr.. Spinks: This contract was en-
tered into with the city prior to that
time by the Alexandria Electric Com
pany, was it not?
Mr.. Taught: / don't know that.
The only thing that | know about the
contract is that section there that |
have Just heard Mr. Harlow read.
Mr.. Spinks: You have not read in
there that the city is to receive Z II
ampere lamp which shall fulfill the
terms of this contract, have you?
Mr.. Taught: l have not read the
contract at all. / don't know what is
in there.
Mr.. Spinks: You don't know any
fAgfg BRfa9Hptt dbeeA l%RRtfr3lffr. F#siierT
has told you, do you?
MIR. Taught: The only thing that
| know about the plant is what | have
told you here. | have inspected the
regulators as ! told you and the
plant: | don't know anything about
the operating of the company, of
course, | am only there as an expert
on those matters.
Questions by Mr.. Fisher:
Mr.. Fisher: How often do you
come to Alexandria?
Mr.. Taught: | make no stated
trips. / was here about the first oil
June, and previous to that time it was
probably a year since | was here.
Question: How long did you stay
the first of June?
Answer: During the day.
Question:: What is your connec-
ton or association with the Alexan-
dria Electric Company?
Answer: None, except that | call
on Mr.. Weller as a travelling sales
man Of the General Electric Com
pany.
Question: How long have you been
with that company?
Answer: About twelve years. For
two years of that time | was in the
factory, working the most OF the
time on arc lamps, and | have been
travelling for them about ten years.
Question: Those two years that
YOU spent in the factory, are they the
only actual experience that you have
had with the arc lighting business?
Answer: No, sir; continuously
since that time, besides having had a
scientific education previously.
Question: Explain the principal
parts of the enclosed Fort Wayne arc
lamp.
Answer: The series coils, shunt
coils and adjusting spring, the clutch
and upper carbon holder will be con-
sidered the essential working parts
of the lamp.
Question: What is the series coil
Answer: That is the coil through
which the main current OF the circuit
passes and lifts the carbon.
Question: Do you test by that coll
for the amperage of the lamp?
Answer: | cant answer that ques-
ton directly, the current passing
through the lamp would be tested by
inserting an air meter in the circuit.
All the current passes through the
series coil.
Question: Is that the coil which
YOU test to see what is the amperage
of the lamp?
Answer: No, sir. That has moth
ing to do with the test. You inserl
an air meter in the circuit for the
test. All the current passes through
that.
Question: What is the purpose Of
the shunt coil?
Answer: 1t is connected in shunt
ing across the arc. 1t takes very
small amount of current, perhap:
three or four hundredths. 1t is Il
adjust the arc and maintain 1t at
standard voltage.
Question:: What is the use OF the
adjusting spring?
Answer: To adjust the arc voltage
at a stated volt.
Question:: What is the use of The
clutch?
, Answer: That is the mechanism
, h,- vrbiob tho carbon is fed