Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1893 — OUR ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT. [ARTICLE]

OUR ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT.

Is to be Greatly Improved. At last the representations of the local members of the Rensselaer Electric Light Company have had the desired effect upon the head company in Chicago. W. B. Austin and A. H Hopkins were up to see them last week, and came back with positive assurances that by the first of March the work of putting in the desired improvements would begin. Another 100 horse-power engine and 100 horsepower boiler is to be added to the 125 horse-power, already in use. The 600 light incandescent dynamo is to be replaced by a 1000 light dynamo. The present arc light dynamo will not be changedi. being sufficient for the demands upon it. That the proposed improvement will soon be a reality, the filing in the Recorder’s office of a trust deed in the sum of 830,000 given by the electric light company in favor of the Illinois Trust Company, is a tangible evidence. This sum is borrowed to pay up the claims against the plant, and to make the contemplated improvements. .>

It is expected that by the Ist of May all demands for additional lights can be supplied.