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

months later, and the changes in the
dash pots were also completed aoou'
that time. A..
Question: The changes in the
dash pots and carbon holders were
made in two months.
Answer: Yes, SIT
Question: did not understand
Won to have said anything before
about any top carbon holders.
Answer: That's the top carbon
holder. That's this coiled pig tail
holder. IT,
Question: Why did you write
two other letters to the company
recommending the the same changes
Answer: In order to get 1t done
Question:: 1t took two months 10
get 1t done?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: Did you write the other
two letters within the two months
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: When did you sever
vour connections as engineer WIN
the Alexandria Electric Company?
Answer: In the month OF June,
1909. -, I'D
again III May you "AN
about this!
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: If you wrote in Janu-
arv and the changes we're made in
two months what was the object OF
So,,r writing again in April and May
when the changes had been mace
Answer: On the 23rd of Febru-
airy | wrote to Mr.. Mclver, ana re-
commended these changes AGAIN. II
YOU will remember my testimony
said il took all of two months 10
get them. On March 24th "ToIe
him again the work OF oVerhauilhs
the arc lamps had not peen com
Melted. and called his attention again
70 the carbon holders. Ihat was
the report at the end OF March. here
is q letter dated the 9Th of April, IN
which I told him that Mr.. Uhler sald
the service was improving and / dld
NOT call his attention again to the
wav in which the lamp should be
trimmed because / did not want TO
keen on repeating the same tning.
Question: At the time the changes
in the lamps were made from 90 10
: amperes was anything changed IN
tho lamps but the series coils, II they
we're changed? -
Answer. believe not, except
that a number of new lamps were
purchased | don't know how many
Question: | mean in the lamps
that we're recoiled?
Answer: Nothing but the one coll
was changed to my knowledge.
Question: If in the evening wheh
the current is on the light what is
the trouble? What is that due 10!
Answer: To the fact that II the
current is at once brought up to the
full value of ", as the coils and
the regulators warm up in the cir
cuits: the current ought not to be
started at the full value at once
thew ought to start at seven and TWO
or three-tenths and gradually Drlng
II mn. They they would not run that
risk That is to save the gas caps
not to save the current. =,
Question: Should that apply to all
the lamps in the circuit?
Answer: Yes, sir.
Question: Assuming that the
lamp on the corner of King and Fan
fax streets when it is first llgnted
begips 10 flicker and flickers on that
way for two or three hours, while
other lamps on King street, say the
lamp at the corner of King and
ROYAL streets is burning brightly,
what is the canee nf-+A-~-ss'' s-as.o - 10
the individual lamp.
Question: You have told us the
candle power of a gas flame, of
piece of hot STEEL and of the sun,
what is the candle power of these
arc lamps on the streets in the city
of Alexandria?
Answer: $50 or $50, possibly 400
candle power.
Question: In answer to a question
asked by Mr.. Harlow you said that
if the trimming of the lamp were
changed as you had recommended
that that would put the company in
a position to fulfill the terms of the
contract with the city. Do you mean
to tell us that this unsatisfactory
condition of the lights about whichr
YOU have previously testified would
be entirely remeded by that?
Answer: Granting that the cur
rent is the correct amount, the only
trouble ! could see was in the lamps
and in the behavior of the regula-
tors
Question: That is based on the
assumption that the proper current
is maintained and the lamps are prop
erly trimmed and that the action OF
the regulators are proper. Can you
state whether the proper current is
going through the lamps?
Answer: Up to fourteen months
ago when | visited the plant frequent
ly it was.
Question: How often did you visit
the plant?
Answer: Twice a month and some
times three or four times up to May.
Question: AT the time you left the
company had the regulators been
changed? Had they been adjusted?
Answer: How do you mean adjust
ed?
Question: | understand you stated
you had man here from Fort Wayne
to adjust the regulators?
Answer: He found no trouble with
them, he said. In other words there
was nothing he could do.
Question: Was the defective condi-
tioin of the regulators ever changed
while you were in the service of the
company?
Answer: No, sir.
Question: Has it been done up to
this time?
Answer: l know nothing about
since that time.
Question: Do you think you can
take a &C ampere lamp and simply
change the series coil and that lamp
FOO r,s.x