Evening star., 1912-09-11
Additions Proposed to Incan.
descent Street Lights.
PLANS FOR CURRENT YEAR
Program Forecasted by w. C. Allen,
Electrical Engineer.
PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS
Miles of Wire Substituted for Other
Methods of Illuminating
City Thoroughfares.

Additional hundred d-candIepower in.
candescent street lamps will be in
stalled on Washington's streets ac-
cording to the report of Walter q Al
ien electrical engineer for the District
OF Columbia, submitted to the Commits
sioners today
win the appropriation for street
lights authorized for the current wear
the work of bringing the National
Capital to the highest point of perfec-
tion in the matter OF lighted thorough
fares will be continued The experi-
ments on prominent avenues-the new
style lamps and higher power-having
proved successful in the past twelve
months. the electrical department is
prepared to continue this style of
lighting.
The report submitted today states
that more improvements In the city's
lighting system were effected during
the year ending June 30 than in any
other twelve months I'm the Districts
history Mr. Allen attributes this To
the installation of the hundred ca ndle-
power lamps. which will be used eA-
tensively In the future.
The system of incandescent electric
lighting, as installed on 10Th street from
II street to Poney Branch bridge, proved
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report, that approximately seven and one
half miles additional OF streets were 81
equipped durshg the year.
Thoroughfares Included.
During the year, this form of lighting,
involving the erection of 14a lamps. was
| installed on the following thoroughfares:
Massachusetts, avenue from Union sta
ton plaza TO Dupont Circle. Connecticut
avenue from sth street to Connect
cut Avenue bridge; Pennsylvania ave-
nue. from 18th to 18th streets north
west: 18th street from B TO 1 streets
northwest, 18th street from Pennsylv lvaniiL
avenue to l street northwest; Vermont
avenue from III street to Thomas Circle.
II street from 14th To 18th streets north
west: around Mount Vernon Square;
around Dupont Circle: around Mcpherson
Square; around Farragut Square: around
Thomas Circle.
In addition eighty-seven lamps were
erected on 1th street from Pennsylvania
avenue to New York avenue. Merchants
| of 7th street contributed the sum of
SS1S.3O toward the Improvement.
Magnetic Lamps Substituted.
The appropriation act for the fiscal year
1912, it is set forth i'm the report, re-
quired 400 Of the series-inclosed and null
1, 1911. to be replaced either with l.
ampere magnetic lamps or with some
other form of improved lighting. as d.
rected by the Commissioners, the change
to be made by April 1. 1912.
In compliance with this act. inclosed-a
lamps on the following streets were
placed with 4-amIere magnetic lamps:
14th street from Thomas Circle to Park
road, III street from 4th street west to
18th street east, Pennsylvania avenue
r0al-
corner 18th and H streets northwest.
around Washington Circle, Pennsylvania
avenue from Washington Circle to NJ
street, 31st street between NJ and y
streets northwest. 26th street between
Pennsylvania avenue and NJ street Wis
consin avenue from Nj to q streets north
west. NJ street from Connecticut avenue
to 3Gth street northwest. Florida avenue
from I'd to 7th streets northwest, Georgia
avenue between Florida avenue and Trum-
bull street, Delaware avenue between
Union station and B street northeast and
North Capitol street between b and Z
streets northeast.
Naphtha Lamps Displaced.
Nine hundred and forty-one mantle
naphtha lamps were in service i'm the Dis
trict Of Columbia July ], 1911. all of
which have been replaced with either gas
lamps. or, where practicable To extend
gas mains. with forty-candlepower IN
candescent electric lamps served by over
head wires, the report states This
change, II is stated. has affected a saving
in the annual cost of maintenance and
has greatly improved the service.
According to the report. the case OF tie
District against the Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington Railway Company,
representing a claim Of S.375. 40. to COM
pel reimbursement of sums expended by
the District for maintaining lights along
the rights of way of the company. de-
cided against the District In the lower
court was removed to the United States
Sunreme Court Under a decision by
that court. constituting the recent judicial
code. the writ OF error will have to be
dismissed, so that the suit Is victory
for the railroad.
The electrical engineer recommends
that the matter be brought TO the atten-
ton OF Congress for the enactment OK
such legislation as may be deemed ad-