| Show ELECTRIC LIGHT proposition to furnish with an at alie meeting of tho city council yesterday afternoon a proposition for lighting ogden by tho electric light was presented hy C C ruth rabir the general agent of the bruth electric light company in alio west anil its reading at once enlisted the the members after the reading of tho proposition which will be found in full below mr was introduced by iiii honor mayor II errick and proceeded to give a detailed account of tho operation of tile light in eastern cities about two years ago the city council of cleveland adopted the light for its large park and had been using is with alie most gratify ing success since the light is oft and yet exceedingly brillan tand the beautiful illuminated park has attracted thousands of tourists in april last hie city of wabash indiana adopted the liblit and was the hist city in the world to adopt it should ogden adopt it mr said it would be the first city west of the mississippi to use it and he had no doubt would be worth more than its cost in the way of showing the world that there was a little city in the far west had energy and enterprise surpassing far more pretentious cities Ke ferring again to the lighting Wabash of mr ruth kaufl said that the light was placed on a court bouse that very much resembled that of ogden and that offered abo best location possible for such a light prior to the lighting of wabash by electricity oil lamps bad been used on the night the test was made an immense crowd of people chocked hocked to wabash from neighboring towns to witness the test it was a complete success and wabash is probably to day the most brilliantly lighted city in the world A farmer living four miles from the city says he can see to chop wood at night the effect is that of strong moonlight there are shadows but they are only apparent by contrast and the air above is made so lumin ous that you do not notice the shad owa while walking about any more than you would notice them on the shady side of the street during sunlight there was not the least danger of fire as alie radiated heat of a 2000 candle power liblit did not equal that of an ordinary gas jet nor could there possibly be such a thing as an explosion no such thing was possible if his proposition was accepted mr aalde he should furnish the light it was dark if clouds obscured the moon the city would be lighted everywhere ery where the same as if was no moonlight due alie light would b run all night except during junob soured moonlight it would bo a light to the whole country for miles around ogden it took gas lamps to poorly light the large city of salt lake if ogden adopted he proposed light it would have an illumination equal to six times as many gas lumps as salt lake and of infinitely better quality dabah indiana was being rapidly followed by other eastern cities and by january ast 1st it was thought there would be fully fifty cities using it galesburg was lighted from a liberty l olaf feet high akron oho was about to be from a tower and from a college building A company with largo capital had secured the lighting of detroit michigan tiffin ohio was about to introduce tho light tho brush company were overwhelmed with applications from all directions and were putting up apparatus with as toni shins rapidity at the close of mr remarks a special corn mitlee was appointed to consider tha matter mayor herrick asked how toon ogden could have the light if it was adopted and was informed that not later than january ast 1st and possibly by december ast 1st depending entirely on the prompt action of the council to the mayor anh city council of the cay of the undersigner undersigned under signed bega to submit the propof for lighting your city by the electric liblit for a diameter of one mile with the court house tower aa tho centre this area we will contract to illuminato sa that the light at tho farthest limit from tho central tower shall have an intensity of a gas lampf tta distance of ono hundred feet and tho aggregate illumination coftus arci bo that afforded by 1000 as lamps of tho standard the light is guaranteed to from the outmode limits to the tower so that the intensity of tho light at a distance of eoe block from the over shall lo 10 equal in o a gas jot or canalo power distant seven feet the con dillong upon which we to make contract ore first that the city shall secure permission to erect ft light or open work iron tower to biown alo ot thoO ourt house sail to be nebout 25 feet high and U correspond with the design of tio building second grant us permission to iu our needed but without obstructing traffic Third That we shall not be hold liable for any unavoidable temporary stoppages due o accident to ma chinery ohi nery fourth we shall be required to light the city by tho gas schedule in common bao in cities Fifth Tho terms of una contract acl are thai it shall extend fora perico of five bearg at 00 per annum no money shall be asked from the city until after the formal acceptance of tho light in accordance with the abobo proposition the light would bo such at to ad mit of he safe carrying on of ordinary traffic at a distance of two miles n caad our proposition is accepted wo are prepared to give ample acu ecu rity forita proper fulfillment all sub gilted milted C c bad other the coart comes out in the to do justice to alto growing of its swelling list of suli |
