Show from Waln udas dally oct THE LIGHT A fen Ext racla from hie aeils Ae irs diio news of yesterday comes oat in an editorial on tho electric light aad lias nome evidence at hand alitt ia certainly damaging lo 10 thu of illumination tho bews yews says wo are now in ft position to lay the facca before tho public following are verbatim extracts from a letter written by a prominent business man of cleveland choso whoso namo wo for tho present bufa who stands in the front rank of Clev elands leading CLEVELAND ohio oct dear sir there is no truth in tho thit towers aro being erected in this city for the purpose of erecting ere cling the brush light so far as I am informed last when the contract was re let for lighting the park with light the company agree l to light a short wide street and chargo nothing for it e to throw eliat it they havo not yet done it but have mado m ado preparations by placing three posts each about 30 I beet high theophers the others are about 10 and presume these referred to there is no excitement hereabout ahn light some like it some dislike it A councilman volunteered to tell me lately that he thought it a bad light tho writer sends soma further particulars which the news reserves for the present but adds I have noticed the new posts since writing tho foregoing and they reach about to the eaves of an ordinary two story building and aro merely long lamp posts when aliey have been tested I again the correspondent ays further the ill success at nantucket will probably give a quietus to a scheme for lighting mass if you council aro wise they will not fool away the peoples money on electric lighting towers the news then further says so far the letter from cleveland our information about the trees in that city being the objection to lie light by the municipality was obtained from a who was here at the timo alien tho brush light was tested in front of Z C M I we learned hat alie very city the light hails from had not adopted it that it had been tried in monumental park there and was not comador cd suitable for city purposes we also by letter obtained corroboration of this statement and tho said cleveland is not lighted in the manner you describe but mainly by gas lamps there arc in the outlay ing wards many oil lamps monumental parac is by the brush electrio light using globes placed say fifteen feet above ground some like the light others do not there are about twelve lights |