Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — Cluster Lights Relegated To Rear at Indianapolis. [ARTICLE]

Cluster Lights Relegated To Rear at Indianapolis.

This is printed for the especial attention of The (Monticello Herald and residents of our neighboring town. Last year when Rensselaer installed the new boulevard lights The Monticello Herald spoke slightingly of our selection and boastfully of the cluster lights which had been installed in that city. The Indianapolis News of Thursday contained the following mention of the removal of cluster lights and the installation of the straight-pole lights on the down-town streets: have been issued by the board of public works for the removal of the ornamental cluster lights in the down-town streets. The board proposes to replace these with lights similar to those that have been placed in North Meridian street and in East Washington street under the street lighting contract with the Merchants Heat and Light Company. The lights that are to be placed by the board, under the street lighting contract, will have iron standards, surmounted by a single globe in which will be an incandescent light. These will be spaced the same as the cluster lights now in service. “The board’s order for new lights in the downtown district are for the following streets: Washington street, from White river to East street; Delaware street, from Massachusetts avenue to Sixteenth street; Massachusetts avenue, from Pennsylvania street to North street; Pennsylvania street, from Maryland to Ohio street; Ohio street, from Illinois to Pennsylvania street and Monument place. “Some of the territory mentioned is not now lighted with the cluster lights.”