The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-24
CITY JEWELLERS
ARE DEPENDENT
ON ELECTRICITY
indianapolis Light and Heat
Co. Maintains Perfect
Service.

WI 1--WE
From the time he gets UP in the
morning until the goes to bed at
night, the average city dweller is
dependent, to an extent few of them
consider, ON electricity. When he
rises, except perhaps in these long
June days, he snaps on an electric
light to shave by, and while he Is
shaving his wife has plugged in an
electric toasted and percolator to
prepare his breakfast.
Arriving downtown, an elevator
operated by electric power, bears
him to his office, or counter in the
store, or factory bench. Electricity
provides light for his work; drives
whirring fans to keep him cool; oper-
:ates Office and store equipment; pro-
vides power for all the varied ma
,chinery of the factory, and intense
heat for furnaces and other oper-
Ations.
Helps Housewives
And while the man Is thus carry
ing on his work, with electricity in
one form or another as his constant
aid his wife, at home, is finding 1t
equally useful as household serv-
ant. Electric irons, vacuum cleaners
washers, ranges, refrigerators, work
to save her from being toil-worn
drudge, and at the same time permit
her to keep her house in more per-
feet order and her food more SAM
tary and more appetizing.
All this, accepted by "Mr. and
Mrs. Average Man" as part Of their
daily routine, is made possible to
them only by tremendously in
tricate and costly system of general
ing machinery, transmission and dis
tribution equipment, which must be
always in service; on duty twenty
four hours a day.
Service Is Constant
This service, to meet the expecta-
tons Of its users, must be constant.
When the Office man turns on the
Light, or the factory operative throws
q switch, he expects instant re-
Spouse. Il: is the proud,sst boast Of
the In<liar apolis Light and Heat
Company, that SO thoroughly pro-
tected is it's system that in the mile
square there has never been an in
terruption of its service in the last
thirty years. Outside that district
the Interruptions are fewer and of
briefer duration than is the average
in other cities.
To attain that near perfection Of
service the Indianapolis Light and
Heat Company has built up a sys-
tem carefully constructed to guard
against breaks. The two main gen.
Grating plants, Kentucky Ave. and
Min St, are SO tied together by in
accommodating wires that If
turbine needs attention or repair, If
a boiler needs cleaning, or from any
other cause the capacity Of either
station Is temporarily reduced, the
other Is ready at a moments notice
to Fill IN"
Stations Linked Up.
Both stations are tied in to the 49,
rCD0-vo1t high tension line which
5makes a foEty-one- mile circuit
saround the city. And from both run
out other circuits SO arranged that
tf any part Of the high tension loop
Sts cut Of operation. 1t takes only
.Gsw minutes, except possibly in cases
Of unusual storm damage, to sup
spgy service to the affected district.
All this equipment, and much
more In the way OF g1ihstations and
ahuge storage batteries, Is watched
day and night by engineers. load
tsdisrmtchers, nnemen, trouble crews
and others, that It may operate to
stho highest point of efficiency, ready
ITO give the city whatever it may de-
Inland In AJecfrjcal ssey~vjce