The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-06-12
BAILEY ADVOCATES
ANDERSON SYSTEM
OF STREET LIGHTS
Electric Expert Suggests In
stallatiOn of Boulevard
Plan With Nitrogen Lamps
on Ornamental Posts.

William M. Bailey, manager Of the
Home Telephone company, today sug-
gested to Manager Kleinknecht of the
Municipal plant that the Anderson
Ind, plan for installing a new street
lighting system be adopted in Rich
mond
This plan calls for the installation OF
the boulevard lighting system in the
business district of Main street and
possibly on a part of North street
and a few other important business
thoroughfares. In the residential dis
tricts the old corner pole lighting plan
could be continued for the time be-
ing.
In Anderson they have just passed
an ordinance requiring the installation
Of boulevard ornamental posts, about
ten to block, five on each side Of the
street. on several of the principal
streets. This boulevard system in An
derson is to be established as a public
Improvement and the property owners
assessed to meet the expense. which
is very reasonable" Mr. Bailey said to-
day.
Against Sipshod Work.
Mr.. Bailey is of the opinion that
now Richmond is to have new street
lighting system it should not be in
stalled in a slipshod manner but con
structed with an idea Of permanency
He objects to the contemplated plan
of placing Main street arc lamps on
brackets attached to trolley poles, as
Serting this would be only make
shift arrangement and, at the same
time. would mean the restringing of
wires along Main street
My plan would be ten nitrogen arc
lamps to each block at least on Main
street, possibly from Fourth street to
Twelfth street" explained Mr. Bailey
Each lamp would be on an ornamen
tai post and, as in Anderson, the cost
of their installation would be assessed
against the benefited property own
ers as public Improvement. This
would relieve the city Of considerable
expense in the installation of the new
lighting system. Each nitrogen lamp
and post would cost about S75, making
the assessment for them approximate
ly 81 a front foot a small expense fOl
such an improvement. Underground
wires would connect each post.
To Reduce Opposition.
"Possbly if the city decided to inau
gurate the boulevard system on Main
street alone at this time it would be 9
good plan, for opposition would ther
be reduced to minimum. When the
benefits Of such a lighting system
were recognized I am certain that il
would not be long before property
owners on other streets would begin
petitioning the board for the installa
tion of a similar system"
Mr.. Bailey who is a recognized elec
trical expert, champions the adoption
of nitrogen lamps for street lighting
purposes. He says they are vastly su
perior to the flaming lights. which
are being considered by the board o.
public works as we'll as the nitrogen
lamps.
The size nitrogen lamps which
should be placed on the ornamental
poles | have suggested for Mair
street and other principal streets, are
capped by seni-direCt reflectOrs which
throw out a splendid Illumination. One
of these lamps Is a vast improvement
over the cluster lights. which for {
time were desired for Main street. The
cluster lights on one pole average "a,
k W. with a 800 candle power. A 25'
k W. nitrogen lamp is about $50 can
die power so they are both cheaper
and better than the cluster lights
Mr.. Bailey called attention to the
fact that in Chicago the sanitary dis
trict has been equipped with nitrogen
lamps in preference to the flaming arc
lamps after elaborate tests.