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Incandescent Lighting.
The experiment in incandescent gas lighting commenced
by your Board in Gower Street, in February, 1899, was
continued during the year, and further experiments made
in Bedford Square and Montague Place, which were the
subject of a long report by your Engineer on the 6th
April, 1900, now under the consideration of your Works
Committee.
The public lighting of Shaftesbury Avenue from Great
St. Andrew Street to Cambridge Circus being considered
ineffective, your Board resolved to improve the same by
placing eight additional lamp posts in the street, fitting
the whole with the Welsbacli incandescent burner. The
work was completed on the 6th March, 1900.
Underground Wires.
The National Telephone Company having obtained the
permission of this Board, laid the following additional short
lengths of pipe under the public ways to carry their
wires :—In High Holborn, from the east boundary of the
District to Tichborne Court; in Newton Street, from High
Holborn to the premises No. 6, Newton Street.
Hydraulic Power Mains.
Cast-iron pipes for the supply of hydraulic pressure have
been laid during the year in the following streets in the
District by the London Hydraulic Power Company, Limited,
permission to do so having been first obtained by the
Company from the Board: —
High Holborn, from Southampton Row to No. 126.
Hart Street, from New Oxford Street to St. George's Church.
New Oxford Street from Tottenham Court Road to Shaftesbury
Avenue.