The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
IS CHEAP ENOUGH
Estimated White Way May Cost
Only $4,000 a Year.
Edison People Wanted $4,000
for the Current.
NEW BRIDGE LIGHTS
The Celebrated Tungsten Lamps
for the Melan Arch.
Commissioner Miller in an Opt
miStic Mood.
NEW BRIDGE LIGHTS

1t Is estimated that the white way
can be maintained for $4,000 a year,
which is figure far below previous
estimates. Allowing for unexpected ac-
c1dents the cost of running the blaze of
light along Kansas avenue should not
exceed $500. In otner words a little
SSmore than eight dollars a night is all
the City is paying out for the beautiful
light and good advertising which Tope-
ka enjoys as a result of the recently
established Kansas avenue lighting
system, Or to bring it down to a finer
point IN round figures eight cents a
night per polo for ten blocks-the
finest Illuminated street in America
These estimates are based on ex-
periments made the first few weeks of
operation says Commissioner Pete
Miller THE exact figures cannot be
given until the first of the year. The
difference in cost of running the lights
of the city in the hours when the white
way is in operation and when it is not
in operation
I'VE have just had installed some new
meters which will enable US to tell just
how much electricity is used in a night
They cost a little money, but they will
save the city money in the course of
year.
The Edison company wanted $500
per year for operating the white way
We feel safe in saying that the cost
will never be more than $780, and pro-
baby not more than $4,000; cOnse-
quently we will save at least $4,000.
and are employing as few men as posi-
bic, but after the first of January we ex-
pect to have the coal weighed that is
used while the white way is in operation
and that which is used when it is not in
operation.
There has been some talk among the
North side men of petitioning for two
blocks of white way in their business dis
trict, but I do not know how soon any
thing definite will be done in that direc-
ton
New Lights for NTelan Bridge.
: Within two OF three weeks we expect
10 put in ten tungsten lights on the
NIelan bridge in place of the small car
bon lights at present in use 1t will be
about as cheap the Edison company
furnishes the current according to the
franchise.
more to maintain the upright white way
lights than would have been the cost Of
maintaining inverted lights had they been
chosen Water is apt to get in, and in 1
case of a freeze the globes are likely TO |
break. twenty-five globes broke the first |
come the large portion of the difficulty by I
perfecting better drainage. We have A /
good many things to learn by experience /
Il have received letters from various I
persons who have visited Topeka. and /
who say that our White Way is the best |
they have ever seen
THE Lawrence business men are talk |
ing of building a White Way, said W. |
w Webb. wiz was chairman of the |
White WAY committee of the Commercial |
at the good roads meeting various queS- |
tiOns about the kind of poles to order and !
the cost of maintenance The trouble a |
u lawrence is that the light and power |
lion and they are holding up the price for |
current