Electrical news and engineering . liiraiiili scent and Railway Board, New Westminster. hours operation is but $ a night, counting power atabout two cents per kw. The old system, with but one-half of the illuminating power, was $ a night. In fact,so incredibly cheap has the cost of this new system beento New Westminster that there is talk of extending it tomany other parts of the city. When current can be pur-chased at a cost of about two cents a kw. hour, street light-ing has been reduced to a science. At the time of installation Mr. Bowler was informedbj many electricians that he woul
Electrical news and engineering . liiraiiili scent and Railway Board, New Westminster. hours operation is but $ a night, counting power atabout two cents per kw. The old system, with but one-half of the illuminating power, was $ a night. In fact,so incredibly cheap has the cost of this new system beento New Westminster that there is talk of extending it tomany other parts of the city. When current can be pur-chased at a cost of about two cents a kw. hour, street light-ing has been reduced to a science. At the time of installation Mr. Bowler was informedbj many electricians that he would find the series systema troublesome one. His experience disproves this, for hefinds it a particularly easy one to run; each lamp givinggood light to the end of the life of the lamp. The cur-rent is supplied by a constant current transformer, and. Columbia Street, New Westiniustei-, since being started on July l6th, 1910, no trouble has yetbeen experienced. The system lends itself peculiarly to ornamentalstreet lighting, and at night Columbia street makes astriking appearance in its blaze of nearly half a thousandlights. The City Electrician has been publicly compli-mented by the City Council for the results he has achievedat such a slight expenditure, and has been given instruc-tions to install more of the same system just as soon asthe Columbia street extension of pavement is completed. B. C. E. R. Co. adds Third Auxiliary Unit The installation of the third unit of the steam auxiliaryplant of the British Columbia Electric Railway Companyhas been completed and was placed in commission for theheavy traffic of the holiday season. This plant was describ-ed in last Septembers issue of the Electrical News, at whichtime only two 2,000 units were installed. The third unitis exactly similar to the first two described, the ge
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