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

Answer: Yes, sir; year after the
change in the system was made that
change was supposed to have been
made.
Question: Why do you say that?
Answer: | have taken it for grant
ed that the change was made and SO
stated to the committee.
Question: You say they were test
ed?
Answer: Yes. sir; they used IN
amperes.
Question: You stated that the I'M
satisfactory condition and the behav-
ior of the lamps is due, | mean this
service that is rendered to the city, is
due to the behavior of the employees?
Answer: Not to the employees OF
the company, but to the behavior OF
the individual lamps.
Mr.. Harlow: He did not say any
thing about the behavior OF the en-
ployees.
Mr.. Belts: No, sir; did not. /
said the behavior of the lamps.
Mr.. Fisher: thought you said the
employees; if you said the lamps, that
is all right. Have you had any ex-
perience in electric plants?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: Do you think it proper
management of an electric light com
pany that has eighty-six arc lights IN
service not to have single reserve
inner globe or outer globe?
Answer: ] consider that very poor.
Question: Do you consider that
proper management or a proper at
tempt to live up to its contract?
Answer: No.
Questions by Mr.. Harlow:
Question: Is there any provision
that you know of in this contract as
to the amount of stock that is to be
kept on hand?
Mr.. Belts: 1t says that the service
is to be maintained throughout the
entire time of the contract, and that
implies of course that the company
must do everything in its power to
keep them going. OF course the
company is not obliged to keep any
certain amount of stock on hand, but
if they have not the stock TO keep
up the light all the time they don't
live up to the contract.
Mr.. Spinks: Here's a question that
was asked you the other night: Do
YOU consider the lamp they have a
proper lamp? Your answer was, No,
sir. Mr.. Hill asked you, Do you
think the Alexandria Electric Com
pany is furnishing the city proper
light according to the contract made
with the city? You answered, l do
not. Mr.. Harlow asked you If this
company is furnishing this city prop
er light according to the contract
made with the city Here in this
other report Mr.. Hill asked you, Can
the Alexandria Electric Company
have a lamp made that will carry out
the terms of the contract made with
the city, and you answered, Yes, sir.
How do you explain all that?
Mr.. Belts: My Interpretation of
the contract is that it was the inten-
ton to furnish this city a street light
ing service equivalent to the old
street lighting service, but | don't
think they can be required to furnish
that actual candle power under that,
because they could not do it. The
city of Newark, New Jersey, has
contract to use a flaming arc light
and they pay $3.50 per month for
each lamp OF course that has
greater candle power than any other
lamp, but it is used there for adver-
Using purposes; the city is Mt paying
that. The city couldn't pay that.
Question: By paying more for the
lights they could get that?
Answer: Yes, but in this city |
speak of the city pays $40 and the
merchants -thR--rAs5ueT asked you
the other night is it possible for you to
go out tonight or in the morning and
take down certain designated lamps
and tell whether the coil in it was a
&C ampere coil or not? You ans
wered, ] don't think so. There may
be some mark on there that the fac
tory people could distinguish. Mr..
Spinks: Do you consider the Fort
Wayne lamp a standard lamp? You
| do not. Mr.. Spinks:
That question was asked Mr.. Kirby
and he stated he did not consider that
lamp the highest type lamp. Do you
state the same thing? You answered
Yes, sir. Mr.. Spinks: That is the
lamp that was put in? Your answer
was, Yes, sir. That is the proper
questions and your replies, is it?
Answer: | believe so.
Mr. Harlow: Mr.. Belts, when you
were asked whether that is stand
ard lamp, will you say that was a
entered into, was it?
No answer.
Mr. Spinks: Will you state whether
or not the lamp that was installed
here was the highest type of Fort
Wayne lamp that was on the market?
Mr. Belts: | think not. 1t was a
sc ampere lamp.
Mr.. Spinks: Do you think it was
the original intention of this COM
pany not to give US the light we were
paying for?
Mr.. Belts: ! hardly think that
Mr.. Spinks: You say the lamps
we're &C ampere lamps and that they
should have had rs ampere lamps?
On the streets tonight they ere burn
ing those same old lamps except that
new coils have been put in there.
Here is the question, if you had the
of these lamps, would you
have purchased some other than rhe
Fort Wayne lamp, and you answered,
Yes, sir. But they did not want to
buy these carbon holders at $21. 1t
.Ook them more than two months TO
10 that, and when it comes to spcnd-
ng more than nine hundred
Then | asked you, You don't know
hat the present company has done
anything to better the conditions la
he last year? Your answer, No, sir.
All your knowledge is about what
happened before these people came in.