Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1914 — Once More, How About Those Boulevard Lights? [ARTICLE]

Once More, How About Those Boulevard Lights?

The Democrat again rises to ask, why all this delay in installing the boulevard lighting system on Washington street? The conduits have been in now for several months, there is plenty of money in the light fund — as evidenced by the recent loan of $2,000 from said fund to the road fund-—and there is apparently no good reason for this delay. Over at Monticello and Fowler, where the movement, we believe, was started much later than here, they have the system all installed and have practically forgotten about it. Some action should be taken here immediately toward going ahead and installing these lights. < Later—Supt. C. S. Chamberlain of the light and water plant, accompanied by Councilmen Kresler, Tobias and Wood, returned Thursday afternoon from a junketing trip to Chicago, Valparaiso and Laporte, where they were investigating boulevard lights, water rates and water meters. They will report to the council at its regular meeting Monday night, and it is hoped that action will be taken to install lights yet this fall. The new nitrogen lamps seem to be the latest and most popular lights now being installed, and are superceeding the cluster lights. They are a single large light to the post, and give better results with a smaller consumption of “juice” than anything thus far discovered, it is asserted.