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tubular boilers and generate steam to light up a few arc lamps and do some sewage power work;
but that was a most wasteful use of the heat. The other was at Birmingham. where boilers
were placed right over Manlove, Alliott & Co.'s furnaces, and deprived the fuel of the rever.
beratory arch which is of the greatest assistance in consuming the fuel. All these attempts were
futile, but everybody saw that there was a vast amount of power in the dust bin refuse. He
could not help saying that any thanks given to the engineers were simply as nothing to the joy
they felt in having completed this glorious work which would bo the basis ho made bold to say
of similar work in every parish in England. (Cheers). Ho had the utmost pleasure in
seconding the vote of thanks.
Mr. E. Manville. M. Inst. E.E., expressed the grateful thanks of his partners and himself
for the kind way in which the company had endorsed this vote of thanks, of which they were
very proud. In his modesty the last speaker had not told them that ho was the man who
originally appreciated the vast amount of energy that was being allowed to go to waste in the
cremation of ashbin refuse, and the reasons why it should bo brought into use. Prof. Forbes
actually proposed schemes for the Corporation of Edinburgh and the Vestry of Paddington, but
was unfortunate in the bodies he had to deal with, for while these bodies had not the enterprise
to proceed with his suggestions, the Shoreditch Vestry had the enterprise and were soon to
enjoy the fruits thereof. Whilst acknowledging their votes of thanks, he thought the thanks
of his partners and himself were rather due to the Vestry, for had they not shown the enterprise
and had not the ratepayers had confidence in them the engineers would never have had the
opportunity of carrying this work to completion. Then again, the engineers were less than
nothing with out the help of reliable and skilful contractors. Manlove, Alliott & Co., the
contractors for the most important part of this scheme, had had a very large experience in this
work, but had departed somewhat out of the usual groove in erecting a destructor of this kind.
They had shewn the greatest skill and the warmest desire to help the scheme, and they were
very largely instrumental in assuring the successful results that would be obtained. They had
also to thank the Electrical Construction Company, who had provided all the electrical
machinery, and who were so well known in connection with work of this kind; also Messrs.
Glover and Company and the British Insulated Wire Company, who had put away many
thousand pounds beneath the ground to carry the current; also to the contractors for other
portions of the work. On their behalf and on behalf of his partners and himself ho again
thanked the Company for their hearty vote of thanks. (Cheers).
Mr. Passmore Edwards had a hearty greeting on rising to propose a vote of thanks to the
Shoreditch Lighting Committee for their services to the Borough. The gentlemen who asked him
to propose this vote of thanks said, " We look upon you almost as one of ourselves." (Hear,
hear.) That was one of the greatest compliments ever paid to him. Ho looked upon Shoreditch
as a model parish, and to be almost a citizen of a model parish was in his mind a great honour.
They had been doing something in the way of providing wash.houses for the people, and he
believed they had done something in the way of providing public libraries. (Hear, hear.) He
believed they were also going to have a splendid technical institution, and to.day they had seen
the inauguration of an enterprise which in all probability would carry its name and fame
around the world. He had, therefore, great pleasure in moving that their hearty thanks be
given to the Electric Lighting Committee.
Mr. F. Snowden (Rotherham and Co.) seconded the vote of thanks saying he was a born
native of Shoreditch. He and his partners believed that the Vestry had conscientiously done
their duty in the interest of the whole of Shoreditch. As the largest ratepayers in the parish
Rotherham and Co. were prepared to utilise the light if it could be shown that they could do
so to advantage. It behoved every ratepayer who possibly could to support the Vestry and shew
their appreciation by using the light in every possible way. (Cheers.)