Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — Electric Light Pointers. [ARTICLE]

Electric Light Pointers.

It is now expected tliat the plant will be in running . order by next week, this.time. Mr. Ferguson, the manager, will go to Chicago this week, to arrange for a larger dynamo than the one first contemplated. Tliat was for 300 lamps, but orders already received are for more than 400 lamps. The dynamo intended to be ordered is of (>OO lamp capacity. - - The feeding wires are of copi>er and usually of size No. 8, although about 3,000 feet of No. 6, arc used on Van Rensselaer street. The wires are all insulated, being wound with threads, and covered with a material resembling coal tar in appearance. The wires are expensive, both on account of the. insulating and of the high price of the metal of which they are made Alxiut S3OO a mile is said to be the average cost of the wires, and five miles of wiring are required in the town. Nervous jieople need have no fears of the wires in the buildings. Not only are they thoroughly insulated, but none of them carry a current to exceed 50 volts in power, or not more than enough for a light shock.» It is now understood that two arc lights , will lie arranged for the streets. One at the intersection of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, and another, which will probablydic located at the intersection of WashifrgtCm and Front streets.