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Search - Ornamental Street-Lighting - A Municipal Investment And Its Return

Ornamental Street-Lighting - A Municipal Investment And Its Return
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CONTENTS -Lamp-posts must be beautiful by day as well as by night. AFFECT THE STREET . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Sign-lighting advertises a thing far and wide window-lighting attracts the passer-by street-I U U lighting arouses the talk of a whole-country. I SYSTEM O S F ORNAMENTSATLR EET-LIGHTIN . G . 19 The wonderfully efficient and serviceable... more » new . lamps. L WHAT I T COSTS T O LIGHT A STREET . . . . . 21 Dollars and cents. POSTS FOR ORNAMENTAMLU NICIPAL IGHTING. STANDARDS--O A L N D D NEW . . . . . . . . 25 GLOBES A ND REFLECTORS . . . . . . . . . . 29 ACCESSORAYP PARATU . S . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The kind of distribution affects the cost of the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4648 Write to any of them for information it costs nothing. In Michigan Boulevard, Chicago has probably the most beautiful. stretch of white way lighting in the world The Business Side of Street-lighting ONSIDER the case of g n2t a of Minnesota Street , be----m tween 4th and 7th Streets C to in St. Paul. In 1910 it activity. was a gloomy thoroughfare, flanked by dreary buildings, most of them dilapidated. In 1913 it is a prosperous street in which new buildings are taking the place of the old. Good street-lighting and nothing else did that. A hundred towns in the United States and Canada can point to dead Minnesota streets that have been electrified by light into life. Their myriad lamps mean civic pride, prosperity, cleanliness, health, safety, enterprise-everything that a business man expects of the town in which he lives. Good street-lighting pays in dollars and centspays tremendously in attracting business, pays in greater real estate values, pays in animating avenues that would die after sunset. It is light that has made Broadway, in New York, the most talked-of street in CTndoubtedly this method of lighting has bean one of the influences contributing to an increase of population. It has given the cily wide advertising and been an attractiue force. W. G. AYE Secretary Dept. of Public Afairs Commercial Club ilIi lneapolis., Iirin. UL . ... .. .. .. .. . . - a .. ORNAMENTAL STREET-LIGIITING L A ... . . At Charlottenburg, Germany, may be seen a remarkably successful effort to harmonize the street-lighting installation with monumental structures. Note how admirably the monumental lighting pillars accord with the triumphal portal in the background. This is ornamental street-lighting carried to a wonderful pitch of perfection, a model for larger American cities to follow. North and South America and the most prosperous avenue in the world light that causes newspapers to advertise it gratuitously as the Great White Way. simply because of the difference in lighting. estate values. Several Cleveland business men, whose stores are on the north side of Euclid Avenue, between East 55th and East 66th Streets, installed a block of ornamental street fixtures...

ISBN-13: 9781408637760
ISBN-10: 1408637766
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 48
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