STREET LAMPS AND NAMES.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In most of the cities in the Eastern United States the names of streets are compelled to be made prominent on all lamps at street corners. A strip of red glass about 4in wide is affixed inside the glass of a gas lamp. The name is embossed on the red glass, and it (the name) shows up white at night, and is very prominent. When electricity is employed to light the streets the name is cut out of a piece of thin black iron, also about 4in wide, and as long as required. Behind this iron a strip of common red glass is fixed, and behind this again is a small electric liyht. When the lights are on it is an easy matter to read the name of a street on either a gas or electric light from 50 to 75 yards away.—l am, etc., Ajjdrkw L. Fogo. June 16. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 11605, 16 June 1902, Page 3
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