The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . oratories and a commodions hall, where lectures are given, from timeto time, in the uses of gas. The capital stock is $500,000, and the Directors of the company are:Charles Dudley Lamson, A. George Bullock, Josiah H. Clarke, FrancisH. Dewey, Albert Wood, Samuel B. Woodward; President and GeneralManager, Charles Dudley Lamson; Treasurer and Clerk, James WORCESTER ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. In 1883 electricity for lighting and power purposes was introducedinto Worcester, the Worcester Electric Light Company, a corporation
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . oratories and a commodions hall, where lectures are given, from timeto time, in the uses of gas. The capital stock is $500,000, and the Directors of the company are:Charles Dudley Lamson, A. George Bullock, Josiah H. Clarke, FrancisH. Dewey, Albert Wood, Samuel B. Woodward; President and GeneralManager, Charles Dudley Lamson; Treasurer and Clerk, James WORCESTER ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. In 1883 electricity for lighting and power purposes was introducedinto Worcester, the Worcester Electric Light Company, a corporationchartered to furnish electric light, heat and power in the city ofWorcester, having been organized that year. The original capital ofthe company was $100,000, and increased from time to time until itbecame, as at present, $300,000. The initial plant was near Franklin square; but in 1889 a tract ofsome 61,000 square feet on Faraday street was secured, and in the fallof that year the present exceptionally fine power-station, one of the bestin the L^nion, was MARBLE SWITCHBOARD IN ELECTRIC LIGHT STATION.
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