Heisler street light brackets

The Heisler System at Vincennes, Ind.

The cuts in connection are in exemplification of the long distance incandescent lighting system at Vincennes, Ind., of the Heisler Electric Light company of St. Louis. Fig. 1 shows a new style of side wall bracket; Fig. 2, the street fixture used and Fig. 3 a street scene.

Fig. 1.

H. W. Frund, superintendent of the company at Vincennes, writes in reply to interrogations regarding the system: "Our street circuits are a little over thirteen miles, the longest being about seven miles, and we operate, including commercial circuit, eighteen miles. We use numbers 6 and 7 B. & S. gauge for out door wiring and number 11 in inside."

In the same letter Superintendent Frund takes occasion to write in terms of the highest commendation of the system: "In justice to the Heisler system, we must say that it is excellent for street and commercial lighting, We have been in operation now one year and a half and

Fig. 2.

the light has given satisfaction to every one. The machines and the whole system are from a mechanical and electrical standpoint, simply perfection and have never, been out of order for an instant on account of electrical machinery. For months prior to putting in the pkant here, a select committee visited many electric light plants, and examined into all existing methods of lighitng. The Heisler system was finally

Fig. 3.

adopted and think after eighteen months trial the same to be the best incandescent system out. The problem for lighting our city could not have been accomplished by any other method."