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56
PROPOSED LIGHTING OF THE MAIN STREETS
WITH ELECTRIC LIGHT.
It was mentioned in the last Annual Report that the
question of lighting the main streets of the Parish with
electric light was under consideration by one of the
Committees of the Vestry at Lady-day, 1895.
The Committee in the first instance directed the Vestry
Clerk to place himself in communication with the St. James's
and Pall Mall Electric Light Company and the London
Electric Supply Corporation (the two Companies supplying
electrical energy in the Parish), with the result that both
Companies submitted proposals for the lighting of the main
thoroughfares by electricity. The Committee gave
preference to the proposal of the St. James's and Pall Mall
Electric Light Company, for several reasons which it is
unnecessary to enumerate here.
Briefly, this proposal is based on an estimate of 60 lamps
for lighting Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, Shaftesbury
Avenue, Coventry Street, Lower Regent Street, Waterloo
Place, Pall Mall, St. James's Street and Piccadilly, in lieu of
the existing gas lamps; the Company undertake to light
for the same hours as the gas lamps are now alight and
maintain in full running order these lamps for the sum of
£30 per annum each, the Vestry to supply and erect the
lamp posts complete with lamps, and the Company to supply
all mains, connections, switches, &c., &c., as required ; the
estimated cost of lighting by electricity is £1,800, as against
£1,078 for gas, and an estimated capital outlay of £2,172
only for columns, lamps, new refuges and removing existing
gas lamps would be necessary on the part of the Vestry.