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Show I WHEN OGDEN TRIED TO LIGHT THE ENTIRE CITY WITH A TOWER OF ELECTRIC LIGHTS vVho was mayor of Ogden thirty rive B rears ago, when the town was in civic knickerbockers ? This question was put to a leading pioneer The old-timer's memory went wing-Ing wing-Ing back through three decades or more but he couldn't tell for sure. ; Who built the great tower for the I electric light at Twenty-fourth and Adams, when the electric light first came into use. the tower sunburst be-ing be-ing designed to light the entire city? This question evoked a laugh and quick reply "Ah, yes" he Bald, "every old-timer will remember thai tower and its wonderful quart u gleaming electric lights that made the darkness visible " Asked to describe the experiment. 1 i lie old timer said : "Memory doesn't serve me well, and I cannot recall with certainty who was mayor, but B. F. Raybold, now of Salt Lake, was secretary of the company which constructed the light It was composed of four great arc-. arc-. lamps, set upon a tower aboul L40 1 high. The steam-plant was located at ihe rear of the court-house. The ex perlmeut was intensely interesting to everybody. Fails to Equal the Sun "Ogden had the distinction of try-j ing out the second Brush machine j used in the country. Salt Lake used the first Electricity for lighting pur-poses pur-poses was new, of course, which accounted ac-counted for our ignorance of the prob-1 able effect. The promoters, city of-firials of-firials and people generally were con ! fident the elevated lights would be j as a sun. lighting the entire city. The j experiment was, of course, a disappointment. disap-pointment. For a distance of three or four blocks one could read a newspaper, news-paper, but close around the tower It was dark The refulgent rays didn't reach like we thought they would "The recalling of the great electric I tower certainly is pleasing, but to get I the full story. a6k Dave Smith, who drives the white horse and trims the electric lamps around town. He was an employe of the company at that time and doubtless will remember all the circumstances " The question was evoked in a discussion dis-cussion of a proposal in the Standard recently to have a magnificent elec-1 trie sign upon Observation peak bear-1 ing the motto of Ogden and advert is ing the Golden Wedding Exposition of 1919. Mayor Heywood and other civic leaden were greatly Interested in the I proposition. It was remarked, however, how-ever, that reflectors should be need to make the great sign brilliantly visible. Many suggestions regarding the expedition ex-pedition indicate the electric illumination illumina-tion and adornment of the city will surpass all previous efforts at world's lairs ann uip genciai Hysieiu oi illumination il-lumination will be made permanent, I making Ogden the best lighted city in the world. oo War-time prosperity has brought to Japan an actual shortage of labor and has glen a strong impetus to the trade union movement in the empire The Turkish government has made ' a special appropriation of $1,980,000 to I 'be used for the purchase of seed I grains for needy Turkish farmers in the Turkish dominions. |
