Show LIGHT building nuil dini hy by electricity IN Y times sep aj Z Edi sons central station at no pearl street was yesterday ono one of the busiest places down town and sir mr edison was by far the busiest man in the station the giant dynamos were started up at in the afternoon and according to fredison mr edison they will go on forever unless stopped by an ail earthquake one third of the lower district was lighted up the territory being within the tile boundaries of u ami and beurl and nd tild wall streets during the past ast few weeks the E edison dison E electric flu illuminating mina ting company lias has been engaged in com completing the installations i in in the premises of its customers by the insertion of meters and lamps and in in procuring procura ig inspection of such pre maca by the fire underwriters As the board of Under writ e ers ra has but one expert Mr the progress has been necessarily slow butruch but such pr artion p tion as has been ins inspected acted was sip supplied plied last night air fr edison said that the work would be pushed as rapidly as possible so that the rest of oatlie the district that lying between pearl street and the east last river and spruce and wall streets will soon bo be lighted the lay laang ing of the steam beati heating aig pipes pes mr edison added had int r tred with sume some of the tile pipes othis of his company and it might be nece ne today tody to day tu to shut off the current in th that at novion of the district wherein the times office is situated the current would be dint off until his pipes could be shored up tip in that neighborhood I yesterday for the first time the times building was illuminated by electricity mr E edison dison had at last per perfected fectea his incandescent light had put his machinery in order and had started up his iiii engines and last evening his ili company lighted up about one third of the lower city district in which the times building lits stands the light came caine in in st sections c eions first there came in a holes in the floors and walls then several miles of protected wires then a transparent little egg silat shaped edl gla glas s globe and last of aal all it the fixtures u rc a and n d g ground rou n d g glass ass iliad shade es that made everything coni complete c they were temporary fixture fixtures to give the light lighta n trial and fco so were put in with as a little tearing and cutting as possible pos ible to each of the gas fixtures in the establishment a bronze arm was attached and the e electric lampa wei were esus suspended from the ends of these arms the tile galup is simplicity itself at the top is a brass circle from which the shade and the lamp proper the latter is a glass hisa globe about four inches long and the shape of a dropping tear brad broad at the bottom narrow in the ncik in which is the carbon lions horseshoe eshoo that t gives ivas the light the globe is airtight and the air ha jim been exhausted C leaving aang tho the carbon horseshoe in a perfect vacuum when the thumbscrew is turned and the connection with the electric wires is thus formed the electric current makes ibis this carbon so brilliant that it would be unpleasant to look at it is not intended to bo be looked at however being entirely hidden by the ground glass glasa shade the whole w hole lamp looks so much like a gas burner surmounted by a shade that nine people out of ten teli would not have known the room rooms were lighted by electricity except that the light was more brilliant than gas and a hundred times steadier to turn on oil the light nothing is is required but to turn the thumbscrew no maeciel matches IS are needed no patent parent appliances appliances As soon as it is dark enough 1110 to need artificial light you turn tur n the thumbscrew and the light ight is there with no nauseous nau senus smell no flicker and no glare it was about yesterday afternoon when the lights were put in operation it was then broad daylight and the light looked dim it was not until when it be began to grow dark lark that the elec triet ligat really made itself known and showed how bright aud and steadily it is then the 27 electric lamps in the editorial rooms and the 25 la aps in the counting counti grooms g rooms made thase departments as bright as day but without any unpleasant glare it was a alight light that a man nian could sit down under and write for hours aitho without ut the conscious consciousness nesi of having any artificial licht light about him there was aver a very slight eglit amount of heat berit from baer each lamp but not near nearly y as much as from r in a gas gash burner one fifteenth as much as from gas the inventor says the ii light lit was soft mellow and grate grateful it to the eye and it seemed almost like writing by daylight to have a light without a particle of flicker and with scarcely any heat beat to make the head ache the electric electrio lax lamps in the times building were as us t thoroughly orough ly tested last evening as any aig light t could be tested by men who havo have Datt battered ered their eyes sufficiently by years of night work to know t the e good and bad points of a lamp am and the decision was unanimously in favor of the edison elec trie trio lamp as against gas one night is a brief period ili in wh which ich to judge odthe of the merits or demerits of a system of lighting but so far as it has been tested in the times timm office the edison electric light has proved in every way satisfactory when the composing rooms the press rooms and the other parts of the times building are provided with the lamps there will be from to of them in operation in ill the building building buil dinc enough li to make every corner of it ns 14 clion b bright r t as day |