Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-17


Council.
Mr.. Belts: The contract provide:
that additional ordinances can be
passed to regulate the relations be-
tween the company and the city, and
that was why recommended the or
dinance.
The Chairman: | told Mr.. Belts
that we had framed this report that
we want to go into Council with and
have shown it to him and we want tC
go over it with him.
Mr.. Spinks: We want to find out
if they have actually made this
change first, | should think.
Mr. Belts: You have no right to
question this point of fact. If you
question this you question the prob
ity and honesty of the Committee on
Light. That committee examined the
matter, | am stating a fact here and
some of it is on record here or they
have the record of it themselves.
Perhaps there ought to have been a
secretary for that committee. Mr..
Uhler and Mr.. Dunn and myself went
down TO the plant, and tested it with
an instrument that | brought down.
We tested their instruments and we
found that those instruments read
the current through the three arc
light circuits. They read the amount
of current called for. You can read
the name plate on the regulators any
time and you will see that the system
is a y ampere system. The system
as a system has been changed.
Mr.. Spinks: You state that we are
getting y ampere light in that re-
port of yours, you say you know o s.
That was your recommendation and
afterwards you say you know to your
knowledge that your recommenda-
lions were carried out whc ~Cr sere
employed by the Alexandria Electric
Company
Mr. Belts: No. sir; before | left
the Committee on Light. My duty
with the Committee on Light was not
over until then.
Mr.. Spinks: You said here the
other night that the coils were not
gotten, that you wrote about them
for three months before they were
gotten, and that they were not gotten
at all. did you say they were not got
ten then?
Mr.. Belts: No, sir, did not say
that
NIr. Spinks: You were employed
by the Alexandria Electric Light
Company on January 80, 1909?
Mr. Belts: Yes, sir.
Mr. Spinks: This letter that you
wrote about these coils was written
hen and
Mr.. Belts: | did not say anything
In that letter about these coils, that
refers to the coiled pig tail holders.
said that 1t was a couple of months
before they finally got them. Here's
he letter and you will find that is
The only thing about coils here, that
IS about the coiled pig tail holders.
got two or three of the holders
rom the Potomac Company and put
hem in lamps that were most fire.
luently out and tried them and then
IS when they got them, but it was
some time after they were recon-
That has nothing to do
with the coils in the lamps so far as
you refer to it.
Mr.. Spinks: Do you know that they
nave even gotten them?
Mr.. Belts: Those coiled pig tail
holders? Yes, sir. | did not say
hey were not gotten, finally. | did
Jay that no attention was paid to my
about the trim
ming of the lamps, but they finally
lid get the holders about two months
~ so afterwards.
Cnful,o. ~ that ,,,Iof ia /
lot want to accept was the statement |
ibOut these being the highest type
Mr. Belts Gnterrupting): l am
lot talking about the lamps. have
lot said anything about the lamps |
am talking about the system.
Mr.. Spinks: You had nothing to |
10 as to recommending what kind of |
amps should be purchased?
Mr.. Belts: No. | started to get in
ouch with the General Electric Com |
any and the Westinghouse people. |
Iere's a letter addressed to (read
ng) r. c. Taught, Baltimore, Mary
and. Dear Mr.. Taught: For the |
ext few months at least | shall be in |
barge of all physical matters con-
ected with the Alexandria Electric |
company and in this Connection would |
ay that the Fort Wayne arc lamps |
sed for street lighting on the series
lternating current system have never
cen 4 satisfaction. IL is imperative
hat something be done in the near
lture to remedy the situation and
would like to take up the matter
18th you at your convenience, the
uestion of substituting for the pres
Mt arc lamps other lamps to operate
n the same SYSTEM
Mr.. Spinks: | asked you if you
ad had the purchasing Of those
lmps if you would not have adopted
ONE other lamps than the Fort
Jayne lamps. You don't know that
le present company has done any
ling at all, Mr.. Belts, do you?
Mr.. Belts: Weller has not done
lything so far as | know. | don't
nder stand that Weller has done
lything. He has been trying to
and on the ground that it is all
ght. | think Kirby is mistaken in
lying that the current was kept {
)WH DecduSe uOH lnlHh lndl
ticker would do it for him, but I
en- / don't know who is on at the I
ant at night. Wicker is there in c
e day time, but if they have been I
tting down the current that might t
a reason why these lamps have not !
ven satisfaction. This system is in
nded to run with a Z u ampere cur C
mt. Here's the point: the system C
a system has been changed. g
Mr.. Spinks: We are going into Il
,uncil with this report. You would b
t say of your knowledge that every c
e of these lamps are y ampere L
nps? il
Mr.. Belts: ! am certain about the p
stem. e
Mr.. Spinks: | mean the lamps. il
Mr.. Belts Yes, sir. IL
Mr.. Spinks: When was the last 81