. Electrical news and engineering . ejected the offer of the DetroitElectric Eight & Power Co., to furnish light at $ lamp per year, and went into the business as amunicipal enterprise. The sum of 8630, wasinvested in the plant. A report of the first nine monthsoperations has just been published, by which it is shownthat it has cost the city $ per lamp, exclusive ofany allowance for depreciation, interest on investment,water, rent and insurance. If these items are takeninto account, as they certainly ought to be, and count-ing in also the amount which would have been receiv
. Electrical news and engineering . ejected the offer of the DetroitElectric Eight & Power Co., to furnish light at $ lamp per year, and went into the business as amunicipal enterprise. The sum of 8630, wasinvested in the plant. A report of the first nine monthsoperations has just been published, by which it is shownthat it has cost the city $ per lamp, exclusive ofany allowance for depreciation, interest on investment,water, rent and insurance. If these items are takeninto account, as they certainly ought to be, and count-ing in also the amount which would have been receivedin taxes from a private lighting company, the actualcost per lamp is shown to be upwards of $130 per year,or more than $25 per lamp per year in excess of what aprivate concern offered to supply the light for. X X X X The State of Ohio, following in the wake of NewYork state, has recently placed upon its statute books alaw which makes electricity the instrument by which infuture the death penalty is to be inflicted. The prison. The Hull .incl .Xyltncr Electric Co. purchased .1park a mile and a half further up Deschcnc Lake than the presentpark at Aylmer. The park has a frontajje of nearly half a mileon the lake. It is s;iid to be the inletilion of the company todouble track the road from Hull, and lo purchase atiollier loco-motive and ten 40-foot trailers for handling excursion ARu^jjles ) snow ploti^h also been ordered. IKMKKOKK COMPANY OVNAMO AN1> KSlilNK l\l>OM. electrician, official whose duty it was to purchase the requiredelectrical apparatus for this purpose is said to havemade the round of the electrical supply companies inChicago and found that not one of them was willing tosell a dynamo to generate current to stop the current ofhuman life. He had previously visited New York withthe same result. The New York State authorities aresaid to have met with the same difficulty, and werefinally obliged to buy their a
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