view raw text
SARATOGA IS TO BE SUPERLIGHTED Raciag folks will find a new kind of a Broad -araj al Saratoga aezt August The toara is golag to have the brightest street la the arortd. Kol eoUteUI with ils fame ,-i» one of Americas greatest araterlug places and as one of Ike gayest horse raciag centers in America the municipality has now taken steps to attract still greater attention by means of a Great While Way that promises to outahlue anything of its kind. Appropriately enough, its Broadway, Saratogas Broadway, of course, thats to have ihis nuperilhuuiuatiou. One set of liiil -t indards and one circuit will penult Saratoga to have superabnadaut light four months of the year, one that a fashionable BUUiUief resort teajutres, and an adeipiate and economical system the other eight months, as a village of 13.308 population might need. Ii also permits this Great White Way to tie dimmed at midnight and to operate at a less intensity from that time oil until morning. In the base of each light pale is a relay bo. By short circuiting the power at the power station. causing but a flicker in the illumination, the circuit is transferred by a movement in the relay box from a lamp producing 1,830 candlepow or to a lamp producing but 233 eandlepower. Both these lacgn-d. -scent lamps are within the same globe or fixture on the pole. To get back the bright lights shall circuit the power again and the relay throws over t lie current to the larger lamps, and so on back and forth as m casioa demands. A double globe fixture will l rected along Broadway, Saratogas principal thoroughfare. This means that during the summer season there will be •J. nun . ■.indlepiiwer supplied by each lamp until the circuit is changed at midnight, when it will be iodic. d to 500 eandlepower, the illumination that will also be supplied the quiet eight months of the year. The standard* are located opposite each other, and hare snaeiags of approximately 13."i feet The height of the center of the light source is twenty Feet. Approimutely one mile of street will be lighted by sixty -nine standards. Congress Spring Park will also be superlighted. Fifty-three staadarda with fixtures similar in ! ■■ -ign to the Duo Flux, but smaller, will be Installed. F.aeh globe will have a --"0 eandlepower aeries Mazda lamp. W« rk aa the installation will begin early in the spring, as it i~ to be in readiness fur nae next summer.
