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Show rtiK.Ntw Yor.K Ti:ntJ has been iu-j Tcstigating the electric light question, and alter a full survey of the field, cornea lo the conclusion that the gas companies have been driven from all their sirocgbcld?, ncept that of purely domestic lighting, and it is not improbable that they will be driven from that before the clooe of 1S70. Four electric lamps are found claiming claim-ing lo meet the conditions of eubdi-visioD, eubdi-visioD, namely, Edison's, HolcomLe'?, Wenierm ana's ar.d Fuller 'a. All have done satisfactory work iu tho laboratory, acd Werdermaun's has been tested in cut-door experiments equivalent to alreel lighting, though neither has been eubmitttd to test on a comprehensive s:a!e. Notwith-sianJing Notwith-sianJing theee tacts the gas companies are apparently happy, and going aljog, paying aividenos anu eiteLU-j inj their operations. It will taie ioruethizg more than ue wr aper articles aaJ senia'.ion tl sterjt-a from Idherat-ies to l:g.;t atr.ts and i.lum u.ite house, and until t:ie electric ( iighl inventors ceaiC la 1 ii:; g and g:t down to work th-:- coipiLii.s nct.l c-'t bo aUrmel. |