ELECTRIC LIGHT HERE

Darkness Forever Banished from Culver's Streets ---New Illuminant a Complete Success.

Culver made its little bow and was introduced into larger company last Thursday evening at 7:40 when the electric current from the Plymouth Electric Light and Power company's plant was flashed along the intervening 12 miles of wire and blazed forth on every street corner in town.

Thirty-seven lamps of 100-candle power each in the residence district and four lamps of 200-candle power each in the business center glowed in the darkening sky and sent their reflection along highway and sidewalk.

The verdict of the Citizen is that the lighting system is a success, that it is all that could be expected by any reasonable person, and that it is all that is necessary for the needs of the town.

It is not possible to read a newspaper in the middle of the block, but we do not understand that it is necessary to read a newspaper in the street after nightfall, or that anybody wants to do so. In fact a great many people in Culver do not read a newspaper in daylight| nor in their homes by their own lamplight, so far as the Citizen has been able to discover.

But if the purpose of the street lights is to so illuminate the sidewalks that one can see a pedestrian approaching at any point in the block, or to so light the roadway that an approaching vehicle can be seen for five or six blocks, the street-lighting system is a success.

A considerable number of business houses and residences have been wired, and are now enjoying the modern light. The work is still in progress, four firms of electricians being at work, and it is predicted that more houses will be wired next year than this year.

In fact, people who are able to afford the outlay will not long deprive themselves of this safe and satisfactory means of illumination.

The day is not far distant when even farm houses generally will be wired and light furnished to them as freely as telephone service.

Two circuits will be used - one for street lighting and power, and one for interior lighting. A. big transformer on Bunker Hill reduces the voltage for the lighting circuit.

The street lights will be regulated from a switch on a pole in front of O. T. Goss' residence. A clock will be attached to the switch and automatically turn on the lights at a designated hour, and turn them off at 11 o'clock on every night except Saturday when they will run until 12 o'clock.

The thirty-seven 100 - candle power lights will cost the town $21 per year each and the 200-candle power lights $32, a total of $905 per year.

As the 200-candle power lamps are not now being made the present lamps will soon be replaced with those of 230 candle power, and the town will be that much ahead.

C. D. Snoeberger, president of the Plymouth Light and Power Co., has given his personal supervision to the construction of the line from Plymouth and to the installation of the street lighting plant here. In every way he has shown a desire to co-operate with the local authorities and to have everything satisfactory.

Where any difference has arisen between him and private property owners or between him and the Telephone company, whose wires parallel his, he has in every case adjusted the matter. We are assured by everyone who is familiar with Mr. Snoeberger's methods of business that he will do more rather than less than his contract calls for.