New-York tribune., 1921-06-04
Rural Byways
To Rival w hite
Ways of City
Constantly Increasing Night
Traffic on Country Roads
Makes Good Light Neces-
sary, Chicagoans Told
To Replace Manual Labor
Elimination of Gases and
Smoke in Big Terminals
by Electrification Planned
.special Dispatch to The Tribune


CHICAGO, June 3.-Devclopment Of
electrical illumination in all It's varied
phases-lighting of homes, stores, of
fees, facories and streets~has pro-
eressed along scientific lines during this
last year, according to the report to-
day of the Lighting Sales Bureau of
the commercial section of the National
EIertric Light Association in session
at the Drake Hotel
illumination of country highways is
the next step" declared Oliver r.
Hogue, of the Commonwealth Edison
Company, Chicago, who submitted the
report This news is of great inter
est not only to the rural dweller. but
to every motorist. With the ever in
creasing night traffic on our highways
there has been more insistent demand
for q lighting unit that will properly
and economically light country road.
The establishment of white ways
and super white ways in cities is a de-
sirable fBrm of street lighting, because
of the good will, credit for public
spirit, influence on illumination stand
ards and general advertising resulting
srom it,"
Now comes new epoch in street
AlEAIllASs dCCOiutuG 70 Lu% report,
WHICH had its inception on the Pacific
Coast and is rapidly spreading east
ward. 1t is known as "intensive or
super-white way lighting" These in
tensIve white ways are made possible
by standards eighteen or more feet in
height carrying two, three or more
high poWer luminous arc or incandes-
cent fixtures.
First Used in San Francisco
The first installation was made in
San Francisco, on Market Street, in
1916, and is known as the Path of
Gold" The system has since been
extended to include all the main bust
ness district. Similar systems have
been installed on Broadway. Los An
geles, and on Main Street, Salt Lake
City.
At the fourth and last general and
executive session of the association,
customer Ownership" was the theme
of an address by John f. Gilchrist. vice
president of the Commonwealth Edi-
son Company, and "The Public and the
Electric Light and Power Company
was: discussed in speech by William
M. Smith, of the Michigan Public Utili-
ties Commission, Lansing.
The committee on electriication Of
steam railroads submitted its report
through Louis A. Ferguson. chairman
The era of electrifcation of the
steam railroads of the United States
is here" the report says. at must
be accomplished if the great economic
wastes IN present transportation IA
cllltles are to be overcome and the
public is to benefit, but real progress
cannot be made in giving the nation
system making use of the advances
IN the sciences, enabling most rapid
transportation of freight and passer4-
gers, in the most efficient manner. and
at the least cost, until combined CON
structlve support of the Legislative
bodies, the investing public and the en-
glneering talent of the country is oh
tanned"
Electrification Vital in Cities
Growth of American cities compell-
ing intensified use of available terminal
facilities, necessity of eliminating
gases and smoke from the cities, the
tremendous growth in traffic on the
transportation systems, which is over
wheimlng as population increases, and
necessity of more rapid transit. both
OF passengers and freight, are pointed
out as compelling factors which cleo
tritication only can solve.
ElectrlficatIon of all roads is bound to
come soon, according to Frank J.
Sprague, of New York, inventor of the
overhead trolley system, the multiple
unit system ana other important elec-
trlcal Developments, who spoke Thurs
day before the Traffic Club.
president Smith, of the New York
Central lines" he asserted, recently
expressed to me his conviction that not
only would the trains be operated cleo
trlcally as general proposition, but
that there would also be a large re-
placement of the manual labor along
the right of way by electrically oper-
ated tools"