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Show STREET LIGSITIi EiPlEIT HEBE Will Multiply Main Street Illumination Nine Times When Installed. 210 NEW ARC LAMPS System Planned Patterned After That Used at Coast Exposition. Equipment for the system of street lighting, which promises to make Main street the most brilliantly illuminated street in the United States, has begun to arrive and work on the installation lias been started by the Utah Power & i Light company, which has the contract from the city. The plan calls for seven light standards stand-ards on each side of the street per block, from Houth Temple to Fifth South street, on Main. Each standard will carry three special inverted arc lamps, each giving light three times the candle power of the present arcs. This means that there will be nine times the amount of light for each new standard as provided pro-vided by those now in use. Each standard will rise twenty-seven feet above the sidewalk and will project pro-ject its light to, the buildings, whereas the present arcs illuminate only the sidewalk and the street in their immediate imme-diate vicinity. The semi-m direct nature of the new system is taken from the system that was used at the Panama-Pacific exposition, expo-sition, which was admittedly the greatest great-est lighting ever conceived and op erated. Plans for a celebration when the system sys-tem is finally completed are in the hands of the Commercial club, which launched the suggestion for the demonstration demon-stration when the contract for the work was allotted. Officials of the contracting contract-ing company last night declined to estimate esti-mate the time that will elapse before the work is completed, because certain of the necessary apparatus has not yet arrived. |