Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-04-24
NEW SYSTEM OF
STREET LIGHTS
SOON COMPLETE
LIGHT AND WATER DEPARTMENT TO
BEGIN WORK OF LAYING CON-
QUITS UNDER STREET.
PLAN is MAPPED OUT WHICH WILL
PREVENT FURTHER "BUCKLiNG"
PAVING.

Unless something ari-,S 10 Interfere.
the light and water department of the city
of Brownsville expects to have completely
installed and ready for lighting the new
ornamental street lighting system ii
Brownsville within the next month. super
intcndcnt Williams and Contractors Their
keld~on and llamlick this morning mapped
ont plans for beginning the work of putting
in the underground wiring for the balance
Of the system. this work 10 begin probably
Monday morning.
An experimental block of concrete gut
tcring which wa> Installed along with the
lighting wires on Eleventh street, between
Elizabeth and levec. has been found To
give complete satisfaction. permitting the
expansion Of the wood block paving, thu,
preventing the ''bucklIng'' of the paving.
This "buckling" has given the city street
department considerable trouble since the
paving was constructed.
II J. the plan IN installing the street
lighting system III the paved district to
construct an ls-inch wide cement and con
crete gutter on one side of the street. and
a. run the wire cnnduii~ under this con
crete work. the necessary connection wires
for the iron poles and lights To be run up
through the cement sidewalk. The con-
%ncction wires Tor the lights on the opposite
side of the street will be run across the
street at the middle aud corners of the
blocks. thus permitting further expansion
joints To be installed. considered necessary
~ the scheme To- prevent further buckling.
Superintendent Williams said today that
If the work begins Monday morning a. was
planned today. he expects ia have all the
runduil~ and guttrring completed within
ten day from that time. Further work in
putting mp the poles. running wires. making
connections. etc.. will depend upon the ar
rival 81 the poles from San Antonio. they
coming in shipment, a. fast a. manutac-
ture = completed.
- far nine poles have been put up il the
district included in the system. and each j.
now burning nightly. One J. al the corner
NJ Thirteenth and Elizabeth streets. the
Miller hotel corner. while the other eight
extend on both -idc~ of the street along
lHf ffAA AA'ffAN tNA W. FN AFfAF ~
street H. the west corner ~ Lcyrr street.
Thee eight pole lond AN appearance to
dat block thri ha~ been commented unon
'taynrubly hy -%.tilru~ aud visitor alike.
The pole carry "a cluster of three light.
4 large one ~ the renter und Smaller nrr-
III either side. They will hc placed \" n-
~ throw thc GREATER portion ut The lr.it
%lrnethwi-c 81 lh" main business STREET
and the a%llry-. Several suggestions have
been made a. a. the po-ition ui the light
on the various streets. bat uniformity i &"
br followed IA thi-. following Inyr-ti-.-
tinn~ made ct the plans adopted ~ other
cities having ornamental street lighting
systems.
The light aud water department now cN-
poets To install - total ot about ninety of
these poles ~ the business district. and II
i- possible that when the work ~ the bust
nr~- district ha~ been completed the prin-
cipal residence streets may take mp the
matter ~ rxicndin. the system.
There l. another result a. he obtained
in constructing these concrete gutter. u
has been found that there H. not sufficient
fall III the present wood block CUTTERS ~
carry the water into the storm sewers. aud
IN constructing the concrete CUTTERS all
lnwanrc will ~ made for this. II " hoped
IN thu WAY Ia de- away with standing wa
ter IN the CUTTERS ~ the paved district.
which ha- not only tended ~ Keep the
streets in bad condition, but ha- been in
furious 10 the paving.