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station capacity. This figure may also be used in estimating the
school house load.
The street -lighting load can be definitely determined
be studying the conditions in the town. Reference to Figure 1 will
show the plat of the town together with the location of the street
lights as indicated by the circles drawn in at the street intersections.
The size of the units is a question of importance which must be decided
early in the study of the conditions. Small towns, prior to the install-
ation of the Electric Light Plant - are generally lighted by ascetelene,
gasoline, oil and sometimes gas. As a rule, these systems get run down
and are valueless, and very frequently it is the poor street illumination
that call the attention to the necessity for electric light, under these
conditions street illumination, ndiich would be considered abominable in
a city, is welcomed as a great improvement in the Village. It is prac-
tically xinnecessary to endeavor to brightly ill^lminate the streets. All
that is desired is that there shall be sources of light at intervals
not too far apart so that it will be possible to discern objects which
come between the source of light and a person stationed midway between
two li^ts. If enough light is thrown down the street to make it possible
to see the curb-line at any point, then the end has been met, and usually
a great improvement has been made over the old system. 60 watt, 100 watt
and 150 watt tungsten lamps, spaced 250 to 300 feet apart, generally
meet the conditions satisfactorily.
At Norvralk, it was decided that four 100 watt lamps with
suitable reflectors should be placed in the business districts on the four
most ijnportant comers, and twenty two - sixty watt lamps scattered throxi^
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