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after accounting for all these matters has been a profit of £1,089.
The general balance sheet shews that the undertakers owed to the
bank £4,380, that there was owing on account of loans £47,291,
and that they had paid through the sinking fund from tho
commencement £3,198, which had all been paid for out of revenue.
Taking the history of the working of the department since its
commencement, it is stated that in 1889 there was a loss,including
payments on account of sinking fund and interest, of £1,079; in 1890
there was a loss of £1,047, and in the first half of 1891 a loss of £30.
For the second half of 1891 there was a profit of £970, and in 1892
there was a profit of £1,476. From the commencement of the work,
therefore, the whole of the losses resulting in the earlier stages have
been extinguished, besides paying interest for sinking fund, and
there is a net profit on the undertaking at the end of 1892 of £290.
The number of customers for electricity is largely increasing,
41 having been obtained during the last half-year, and there are
still many applicants waiting for the light. Professor Shoolbred,
B.A., M.Inst.C.E., was the consulting engineer to the Corporation
Leeds Central Station.
The deputation which visited Bradford on the 15th February, proceeded to
Leeds on the following day for the purpose of inspecting the new
central station, now approaching completion in Whitehall Road. The
site which is a large one with a riverside frontage has been purchased
for the sum of £10,000 by the Yorkshire House-to-House Electricity
Company, Limited, to whose advisers the Deputation was indebted
for the permission to inspect the works. Here the Deputation was
enabled to see a station designed and constructed on the latest
approved principles for generating electricity on the high tension
alternating system. A large amount of floor space is occupied by
the plant, special attention having evidently been paid to the provision
of engines of slow speed. The plant, which is designed to serve
10,000 8 c.p. lamps burning at one time, consists of three Lancashire
Boilers, two 200 indicated h.p. engines (horizontal), and one 100 ditto,
and two 100 kilowatt alternating current dynamos and exciters, and
one 50 ditto. Cables of various sizes are laid, or provided for, to