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Show GAS EXPERTS ARE HERE ON BUSINESS Chiefs of Welsbach Street Lighting Company Inspect Lighting District Plan. For the purpose of figuring op street lighting systems for Salt Lake City, under the new law which permits creation cre-ation of "lighting districts,'' E. A. Shaw, president, and IP. Victor West-ermaier, West-ermaier, manager, of the Welsbach Street Lighting company of America, stopped off here yesterday. They are on their way from Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, which is the headquarters of their company, to San Praucisca to attend at-tend the international commercial gas congress, at the San Francisco exposition. exposi-tion. They are at the Hotel Utah and will go on westward today. In the brief time they had yesterday the gas lighting experts inspected the principal thoroughfares of the city and talked with some of the business men who have the. creation of "lighting districts" dis-tricts" in mind. They were entertaiped while here by Jonn C. D. Clark, general gen-eral rnanager of the Utah Gas & Coke company. It is very probable that Mr. Shaw and Mr. Westermaier will make a more extended ex-tended visit after the San Francisco convention. con-vention. Their company has installed street lighting plants in various cities and they are anxious to enter the field here. A special trainload of gas experts from the east, middle west and south is due to arrive over the Denver & Bio Grande this morning, for a few hours' stopover on the way to San Francisco. |