womMEN
Good Time Now .10 Buy Wraps.
Nowadays the possession Of, an
evening wrap is almost universal. It
‘ ..: may be dark and simple. somber and"
.11. plain. or it may be, of velvet and gold
tissue, of plush and Venetian lace. The
woman who goes out seldom at night
in a smart way would be foolish to in-
vest in one of the latter even if she
had the money; and the woman whoser
life is full of social opportunities, who
goes to dinners and dances and the op.
era constantly. wants one of the gay
. wraps even if it is not costly.
‘ This is the time to get either kind.i
writes Aline Ritteuhouse in the New;
York Titties. There are white fur coats‘
made of rabbit skin which are warm
gun; and serviceable, but they cannot be
worn in moderate and in warm weath-
er. Therefore they are an extrava—
gance for the woman who can have
only one cool. i
The same is trite of some of the re:
duced and beautiful plush and velvet
wraps. but there are cape coats of
black satin lined with Nile blue, with
emerald green and with mouse gray
that are charming. Those are service-i
able and not extravagant even when
one pays a good price for lhotn,.be-
cause they can be worn during every
month of the year by slipping out the
inter-lining or cotton which is placed
over the shoulders.
One. of the best coats of the season,
is a loose, slim atl’air of heavily cut»
white corduroy trimmed with black;
velvet. black satin, or fur.’ it is not so;
extravagant a choice as the white:
rabbit skin coat. because it can be1
worn later in the season and serves for:
cool nights in the summer and fall. and,
it can be ltept hanging in the closet?
during the summer. which is itupoasH
, but with fur. l
',] While the costs of white corduroyj
and white fttr are in first. fashion. other?
2 coats are not: the cape, with its broutlg
mandarin sleeves- has ousted them.i
‘ rl‘he new shape, or rather the. fashion-l
_ able ouemfor it is not new~is some}
thing on the order of the coats worn'
by the peasant classes in holy. lli
hangs loose front the shoulders. drops?
to a point ill the middle of the back at:
the heels. and often has a shoulder;
drapery in the form of a cape, which .
is cut into one or two points
weighted down by Ins-sols.
if we can judge the spring fashions
by the gowns that are sent to the
:lliviera. then the great designers are
going to indulge in many white coat,
stilts this spring. Both Cailot and?
Puqnin are making jackets and shirts:
Of all the oft white fabrics and trim-I
ming them with black. or, in the case
of one suit. with apple green velvet.
The color is used on the coil only;
it is in the shape of huge collar rovers
and at cuffs. ‘ The shirt has a lapped
tunic which fastens at: the left side on
a line with the single fastening of the
coat. which is at the waistline.
The new coats, by the way, not only;
in white, but in all colors and fabrics“i
have grownypercepitbly longer at the‘
shack. The distinguishing feature isl
the fact that they slope away from justi
below the waistline in front to the mid
die of the bai‘h. and this line is us-
ually followed out by an oversltiu‘t or
velvet ribbon or folds on the skirt.
and .
Fashion Bits.
Draped toques of satin and changed»
hie taffeta are extremely fashionable. .
First hats for spring‘nre either'small
and close or large and high trimmed.
Faille is a ribbon Weave that is ex-‘
pected to be in good demand for millin-
ery trimming.
Collarettes continue to be much
-worn, and they appear in many new de-
signs with fancy casings. ‘_
Tailor made dresses are. severely
' ”plain, with the sameztailorlng and tin-
‘lsh‘ that are given to suits—Washing-
ton Herald.
Floral Pun.
Among the strongest selling articles
at the present time are the floral orna-
ments and bar pins made of colored
satin, with frequently a ‘touch of lace.
says the Dry Goods Economist. The
.ot‘cherries. The rottndatlon may be. a
‘, piece of ,whalebone covered with loops"
‘ ~W iglatel‘léaves'among which nestleltour
, _ or live small red“ satin cherries. Single:
large roses wlrth‘J-peadent buds attach;
also well takqu.‘, ' . .
,Hdndln fol-Bags. .
p, The .tmitauonjsderumoer‘ and ivory
.hraceletsgyvh ' to fashionable
today. arelbhi . 7 .
the womandvhb
1y fascinatlnm , , _
. film {ataxmv use it 911 n.0,
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newest development in these is the than"
of narrow green satin ribbon to simu-"
ed to greenvsilk cord or ribbons are},
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4 "Est Norwalkv Fire District. ,
GENTLEMEN :- In response to {10m ”refines't made at int informal ‘inccnng oi the Fire, District. held last Fall, we re-
spectfully submit the following delta regarding the cost of cstablishiti
and other data for theiighttng of the East N or‘vvalk Fire District. "
. "iy
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git municipal electrical plant for the District
The following data is to install I
The following data is to inch" 1 plant with engines run from a plant with engines run from
_ plan with OM Engines. Gas Producer. steam.
1 Land $597.20. $597.20 $597.20
“mmo n. hlzh.’ateel and 34x50x15 it. high, with foun- Approximately ------------- 32.000
2 Buildings
foundation complete ..... $4.000
dationa. completely erect-
ed
Sumclent for three steam units
and two pairs of boilers.
3 Machinery
One 50 ll. 1’. Engine and one
90 11. P. Engine and acces-
sories, completely erect-
ed ..... . ..... 313.000
One 50 H. e. Engine and 1 37% K.
V. A. 60 cycle 3 phase. 230 volt
generator and exciter.
One 100 ll. P. Engine and one 00
K. w. generator and exciter.
Above. complete ...........$16,000
1 00 111’ high speed steam
engine
1 75 HP high speed engine
1 30 KVA generator. 3-
phaac, 00cycie. 2300th .
1 50 KVA generator. about.010.000
4 Total Investment
318.097.20
$20,997.20
$12,597.20
5 Depreciation
Loss of interest on
money invested
and depreciation
on plant.
6 Labor
Depreciation on building at
5% on 84,000 .. . .. ..... . 00.00
Depreciation on plant at
7% on $13,500 ......... 945.00
Loss of interest on money
invested at 5% on 818.-
097.30 ............. .. . . 901.86
32.04080
One day man and one night
man at $1.000 per your. . . 42.00
One line man at $2.50 per
G
Depreciation on building
at 5% on $3,800 ..... ”.3 190.00
Depreciation on plant ’
at 7% on 816.600 ....... 1,162.00
Loss of interest on amount
invested on 820.099 1.049.811
32.401.80
Depreciation on building .
at. 6% on $2.000.......J.¥ 100.00
Depreciation on plant at
7% on $10,000 ....... .
Loss of interest on amount
invested. on 812,597.20.
700.00
620.80
51.429.86
‘ day of 310 days per your. .. 775 Same-«$2,175. Same-«32.775
‘ 32,775
7 Quantity of Elec. We are now using about. 07,000 K.
t . .t W. of electrical energy per your.
”Cl y Suppose by the time we had a '
new plant in operation we would
be using 68.000 K. W. We would
then make about as (allows If
we increased 10% per your for
the tlrst five years:
K. W. Sumo Same
,' lat year ............... 74.800
‘ . -, 2nd year .................. 82,280
3rd year .................. 90.508
ith year .................. 99.558 . ,,
bill your .................. ’1 09,013
Total ................... 456.059
8 Fuel Fuel consumption of small engine, ' ‘
The way we. are likely to
.305 gal. per K. W.
Fuel consumption of large engine.
.146 gal. per K. W.
Suppose we take an morass of
2% gal. per K. W.
71.800 K. W. would equal 16.830
gills of oil, which at a price of
3140 per gal. would be $540.97.
it will take at least W. lbs.
coal per K. W.
According to the. above it
would make 41 gross tons of
coal for an llrtit year,
which at 81 a gross ton. do»
lit-cred. would be .......... 3104
operate our plant it. would
take about 10 lbs. of coal .
per K. \i‘.; suppose it took
only 8 lbs. per K. W.. the
liratxyear it would take 207
groan tons at. $3.25 per tout‘3867.75
Bituminous. coal.
9 Lubricating Oil
Estintte-JhOfiO
and Cotton wutc “0‘00 Estimate-450.00
10 Cost of general r6 .
pairs to plant and 3200.00 Estimate-seoo.oo Estimate—4200.00
buildings - .
11 Summary 0‘ E“ Depreciation item No. 5 ..82.401.86
pence
Depreciation item No. 5. . 52,049.00
Labor item No. 0 2,775.00
Fuel Item No. 8 .......... 540.97
Oil and Waste item No. 9.. 50.00
Repairs. item No. 10 ..... 200.00
$5,621.83
Labor Item No. 6 ........ 2.775.00
Fuel item No. 8 ........ . 164.00
Oil and Waste item No. 9. . 50.00
Repairs item No. 10 ...... 200.00
I . .__...__..
$5,590.86
Depreciation item No. 5.3132900
labor item No. 0
Fuel item No. 8
. . . . ..... 2,775.00
867.75
.~.n-~
Oil and Waste item No. 9. 50.00
Repairs item No. 10...... 200.00
. $5,322.01
12 Cost of electricity
per K. W.
Total expense during the year be-
ing 85,621.83 would be total cost
of 74.800 K. W., the quantity at
the end of first year.
'Nameiy 7 3-4 cents per K. W.
The total expense during the year
being $5,590.86 would be the to-
tal cost of 74.800 K. W., the quan-
_ tlty at the end of the first year.
Namely. 7 2‘3 cents per K. w.
The total expense during the year
being 35,822.01, would be. the to
tal cost of 74.800 K. W.. the quan-
tity at the and of the first year.
Namely, 71‘ cents per K. W.
The following data is to install a .
. tributlon ot electricity
., Additional expense each .
year would be addi-
tional cost of fuel and
general repairs.
Additional expense for 2nd year.
"Repairs .................$100.00
F0015470
rout. . .. .....81§4.70
season. w. would cost 7 1-5 cents
per K. W. .
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‘ weighing everything. wefsel‘iustl—
fled in making an offer or; Sevsn- ‘
South Norwalk. Conn.,
February 17th, 1912.
The East Norwalk Fire District
Committee. Messrs. E. K. St.
John. C. E. Dunnebacke, E. E.
Mead.
East Norwalk. Conn.
Gentiemen:~~—
With regard to your Committee's
inquiry of this Board at its meeting
on the 10th instant. as to whether
. alternating current facilities could
be installed in the electric generat-
ing station of this city. for the pur-
pose of supplying electricity to be
distributed by the East Norwalk
Fire District to its inhabitants, in
place of your present motor gon-
eratlng apparatus. »
_We beg to state that we will be
pleased to give such matter fur.
titer consideration. as to its feas-
ibility. should your District express
its desire for you to take it up
in fuller detail with us: it being
understood that any action on our
part shall be subject to the pleas-
ure of this city.
Respectfully.
BOARD OF ELECTRICAL.
MlSSlONERS.
ily A. 10. Winchester, Gen. Supt.
A E W -W
COM-
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Waterbury. Conn.
Feb. 16. 1912.
ltir. Edson K. St. JOhn, Mr. Edw.
E. Mead. Mr. (Thus. E. Dunne-
‘ backs. Committee. East Norwallt
Fire District.
(ientlet'uenz—o— .
Acting upon your suggestion that
we quote a price for electric cur-
rent to be sold wholesale in the
Fire lllstrlct. we gave the whole.
matter very careful consideration.
Our company. as you know. has
only lately taken over the. lighting
business in Norwalk formerly con-
ducted by the ilousatonic Power
(‘0.. and we were therefore not
tumlliar with many local condi-
lions. .‘This made it necessary to
go into many matters that would
have been well known to us if we
had been bore a little longer. We
considered carefully all the legal
aspects of the case. as well as malt-
iug an examination of your plant
and the conditions under which you
supply current. so as to thoroughly
inform ourselves on your require-
ments. betorc quoting you a price.
it. developed during the course
of our investigations that there is
a serious legal question, as to
whether we have the right to sell
electricity to the Fire District or
the Fire District to purchase from
us, inasmuch as your charter under
which you are engaged in the dis-
provides
specifically that you shall purchase
current from the City of South Nor-
walk, which. we believe. prevents
you from purchasing it elsewhere.
Under these circumstances. we feel
we are not in a position to quote
you a price for electric current.
During the course of our investi-
gations, however. we were. ecu-
stantly impressed. with the fact
that there was a considerable
duplication of equipment in your
district. You are doing business
there. and so are we. and apparent~
ly the conditions will grow worse
as the population of the districtuin-
creases. {or we understand that it
is your expectation to push‘ for
“more business. and we ourselves
are certainly planning to inaugu-
rate an active campaign for new
business in our Whole territory.
including the Fire District. We be.
More this isa situation we will
both have to face. as we will both
obtain some alpha business, there:
by reducing the volume of business
which either one, at us alone might
otherwise obtainjiu the Fire Dic-
trtct. All of this will lead to fur
titer unnecessary duplication of
lines. making the coat tobath the
district and the company about:
sully large. . ,‘ _ .
in view of all these circumo
stances. it has occurred to us that
the district might be willing to '
consider a. proposition from us by
which we will purchase its whole
plant and business. After carefully
teen Thousand ($17,000) fox-“the
electric lighting plant and equip-
This sum was reached after edic-
' “tipsy .luvestlgatinzruot- only what
district . has actually upended
meat now» owned by the district.
Fire District just as we now pro-
pose to purchase vyours.
We would point out to the com-
mittee that while we are offering
to buy all the plant and equipment.
a very considerable portion of it.
will be useless for our purposes
and must be sold at a great loss to
us. since machinery cannot be taken
out and sold in separate pieces at
anything like the original cost to
install the same. For example. out
of about $0.000 represented by your ' '
station and its equipment. we would
expect to lose close onto $4,000. and
also some of your direct current
meters‘ would be of no like to us.-
and for the same reason."namely,
that our system is an alternating
current system. while you have
some direct current or have up
paratus to transform direct current
into alternating current. all of
which will be useless to us. Under
these circumstances. you will read-
ily understand that while the equip-
ment which we will buy cost the
district about 815.000. We will be
obliged to discard about $5,000
worth. of it, and every coat that we
pay you over the equipment that is
actually useful to us. will represent
a payment for developed business
and good will. in other words.
there is about 310.000 worth of ap-
paratus and equipment we can use,
and to this We are addlnv 70 per
cent. for the business and good
will. which is a large amount. We
might point out that if you build
your own plant. you will have to
discard about 85.000 of your present
equipment just the same as we
would.
We will, of course. give to the
district the same service and the
some rates that are or may here-
after be in force in Norwslh. This-
includes twenty-four hour service.
so that our customers can have
electricity at any time of the night
or day. We have compared the
present rates of the district and
of our company. for commercial
- lighting and power. and find them
to be as follows:
Lighting.
Lighting
K.\\'.ii. District. U.E.L.&W.
1-10 .126 .12
10-25 .1215 12
10.25 .1215 .12
25.50 .1125 12
50100 “ .115
100-150 “ .11
150200 , " .105
200-300 “ .10
300-400 .108 .09.?
400-500 “ .09
500 and over “ .085
Power.
Our
K.\\'.H. pr.mth District U.E.&W.
1-323 .063 .10
35-75 .063 .0875
75-150 “ .076
1502.10 “ .07
250-500 “ , .0625
500-1000 “ .055
10001500 “ 106 ~ «-
1500-2250 " .040
22503000 “ .04
30005000 “ .035
5000-7500 ' “ .03
7500 and up " 025
The rates for street lighting, be-
ing the same as in force in Nor-
walk. are as tollows:
Thirtyttwo rated candle . power
incandescent lamps (same candle
power as you now use):
All Night Service.
Length of Price per Lamp
Contract. per Year.
1- 1 year $19.76
2 years $19.35
3 years $19.16
4 years $18.96
5 years $18.76
. 6 years 518.56
7 years 118.56
8 years $18.17
9 years 17.97
10 years 17.77’
For service during November,
December, January. and February.
from dusk until daylight, and dur:
ing March. April. May..Juns.. July:
August, September and October. un-
til 3 a. in:—
Length of ' Price per Lamp .'
Contract. per You.
1 year - $18.00 ,,
2 years $18.00
3 years _ ' . 817.73
4 years ’ ' $17.64
5 years ,. $17.65
6 year: $17.46
71am 817.37
‘ 8 years . $17.28
. .913’001‘8, f ’ 017.15
10 “ years $17.10
. we hope twine quality of the.
dictating service will be greatly im-
proved over what-it. has been pom
‘siblo forth. district, 19 furnish on
» account of its smaller facilities.
We, hope the above will moot.
pleasadoflnot late in ‘caillnx
, upon us for hither Maidens.
m. ,
”with your hmrimaidmtlon."
~ and it thorn lat-anything anon. tube
'..proposltion ‘tthl f is not j clear.
Norwalk Chronicler