The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-17
400 LUMINOUS.
ARCS TO LIGHT.
CITY STREETS
Works Board Lets Contract
for New Lamps for $l5,.
OLA, But Postpones Main
Street ''White Way"

arc lamps, ~ "o'o '~'r
use now. M,
The cost Of installation will be
$16,o74.
The cost Of maintenance, per
year, will be $s.52s.
The maximum candle power OF
the new lamp 10 $50. The maxi
mum candle power Of the lamp
now used 10 255.
The new lamp consumes S1o 4:
W. per night. The lamp now useo
consumes $50 k. W. per night.
In brief the new lamp gives
three times moro illumination TOT
nearly one-haf the current useo
by the present lamps.
The General Electric company
10 awarded the contract TOR tne
new lamps.
A contract for 400, more or less"
four amphere luminous arc street
lamps was awarded the General Elec.
trio company, one of the two largest
concerns of its kind in the United
States, for the illumination Of the city
Of Richmond after the board OF PUBIC
works had considered the various pro
posals this morning. Bids for hicn-
mond's new street lighting system
were submitted July %. No contract
was awarded at that time because oD'
jections had been entered to the
boards proposal to light the principal
streets Of the two business districts
with lamps attached to trolley poles.
In the absence OF any petition from
resident property owners for con-
duit and ornamental pole system IN
the business districts, which the board
has been demanding since the bids
were received before it would con-
slider such a system, the board decided
today that for the time being no kind
OF white way" system for these
districts would be installed, so new
luminous arcs will be installed at
street intersections on Main street,
Fort Wayne avenue, and North E
street, the same way as the present
street lights are-suspended over the
center of the streets from poles.
Cost 10 Moderate.
The luminous arcs, which are to be
installed are considered by the board
members to provide the most desir-
able illumination. and according to the
boards figures, they can be installed
at a moderate cost and are less ex'
pensive to maintain than either Of
were considered, the carbon flame and
type c Tor nitrogen).
The Westinghouse Electric COM
pany and the Richmond Electric COM
pany submitted bids equal to that of
the General Electric company for lum'
inous arcs but the latter company's
vided payment of $1,05O to the city
for ifS SCd old orC 1amnS
The cost Of installing the 400 four
amphere luminous arc lamps will be
$16,124, less $1,000 for old lamps.
This cost includes $500 for 400 new
lamps and six rectifiers at the city
plant, which will be required by the
new system, which will cost $7,164
The price quoted for each luminous
arc lamp was $22.40.
From laboratory data on the car.
bon flames and luminous arcs, and
from figures submitted by the bidders
on type c lamps, the following table
of maintenance costs for 40 lamps per
year of the three systems was de.
rived by the board:
Luminous arc q amphere) ....$ 9,52s
Luminous arc (six point six).. 14,012
Carbon flame (six point SKI. 16,204
Type G 600 candle power)... 1924
Bids on costs for installing Type c
and carbon flame lamps, as compiled
by the board, were:
For type c lamps-General Electric
company. $14.5O per lamp, including
fixtures; Fostoria Electric company
$4.4S, " per lamp without fixtures
and $16.37 II for fixtures; Westing
house Electric company, $2514 pei
lamp, 1000 c. p, and $685. per lamp
6Ou c. D., both with fixtures; Rich
mond Electric company, $1212 pei
lamp, 800 C. p.
For carbon flames-Westingho
Electric company, s34.40 per lamp;
General Electric company, $37.40 pei
lamp.
Had carbon flame lamps been con
tracted for additional transformers
would have had to be installed at the
city plant at an approximate cost o.
$4,000. Under the lowest bid for sucf
lamps a system of them could have
been installed In Richmond for ap
proximately $15,76O, Of 1854 less thar
the cost of installing luminous arr
system. However, the board figured
that 1t would cost the city $6,676 more
a year to maintain carbon flame sys
tenn.
Agent Makes Objection.
AILeT Lu0 obLluldLeS lOT Tie various
systems had been read by Presiden
Bavis of the board representative O
the Fostoria company complained it,
bid had not been considered in formu
lating an estimate Of the cost OF in
stalling and maintaining type c lamI
system. Mr.. Bavis then produced tina
company's bid showing it was con
siderably higher than the bid of thu
General Electric company for tina
class of lamp. Another representa-
tive of the Fostoria company prior tt
the letting of the contract asserted
that the boards estimates on the cos
of maintaining 400 luminous arcs ant
the same number of carbon flames
did not coincide with reliable ant
recognized estimates in his possession
The boards estimates Of the cost O
maintaining for one year one lamp O
the three following varieties follows
Luminous arc a ampheres). .$28.3.
Luminous arc (six point six).... 37.5;
Carbon flame (six point SIKH. 40.51
Type G (600 candle power) 43.1.
A representative of the Genera
Electric company after. the CONTRACT
had been let informed the board tha
the new lamps would arrive In Rich
mond In about four or five weeks
These lamps will be installed by the
city but the company has agreed t.