Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-15
LIGHT COMPANY TO
MAKE A BID TODAY
Offers to Install Many More Lights
Of Greater Candle Power for
Same Money.
TO BE DISCUSSED ON MONDAY


The city commissioners this
morning will receive from the
Omaha Electric Light and Power
company definite proposal for the
maintenance OF the street electric
light system for a period of five
years. At a meeting of the COM
mittee Of the whole the commits
sioners decided to discuss the mat
ter next Monday morning.
The tentative lighting plan as pre-
pared by the city electrician and
understood by the light company
contemplates the installation of 7S6
additional lights, chiefly in the resi-
dence districts. The proposed sys-
tenn has a total of 3,162 lights, in
Guiding 395 lights of the present
Dundee system and 567 in the
South Side district. neither of
which districts would be disturbed
by the new system.
To Replace Arcs.
The company offers to take out all of
the old-type flaming arcs and ordinary
arc lamps now in use in Omaha proper
and replace them with 4OO-candlepower
Mazda lamps, installing 261 two-light
units and seventy-one single-light units
in the ornamental district" being down.
town streets where current is supplied
from underground condults. This orna-
mental district will be extended thirty
five blocks from the present area, ac-
cording TO the plan submitted. rhe plan
further contemplates replacing 1,2T4 aerial
lamps of Omaha proper with 1907 of the
new Mazda type lamps.
The proposition of the light company
Is TO charge s33 per year per lamp for the
lamps hung from center or mast-arm
suspensions and supplied from overhead
conductors; sSS per lamp per year for
the single-unit lambs on ornamental posts
supplied from underground conduits; 81
per lamp per year for the two-light units
on ornamental posts.
To Come within Appropriation.
The city electrician will advise the
council that the city will be able TO
maintain tho proposed new system for
approximately 5000 less than the appro-
priation OF Sill. 900 set aside for this year,
tho desire being to apply the unexpended
balance on a deficit OF $4,000 in the light
ing fund.
The city commissioners intend to go
into this street lighting proposition thor
oughly. The municipal affairs committee
OF the Commercial club is interested and
various improvement clubs will have
few words to say.
Less Current--MOre Power.
The new Mazda type lamp. which the
light company proposes TO install in
Omaha. inquiries a trifle more than half
of the current now used by the old style
lamp and the new type surpasses the
old style in candle power. The company
IT is stated, will want some consideration
will be required to install about $4,000
worth of new equipment and Junk a
lot of old lamps which, Omaha has been
paying for.
AS an illustration of the old and new
rates, this example is given: There are
LIZA old type arc lamps in the residence
districts of Omaha proper. charged for
at the rate Of sSs year, which figures
1882; It ia proposed to replace these
lamps with 1907 now Mazdas at sSs a
year, which figures 1909 for one year.
The rates quoted by the electric light
company In their latest proposal are
net, which would eliminate the royalty
Of per cent. Last year the city re-
ceived $4,000 royalty from this company.