Electric Light by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 8, 1879

Electric Light.

By Editor

FRANKLIN Square, opposite the Court House, in Oakland, was lit up with twelve electric burners, on the night of May 3. We believe this is the second instance of a square being thus lighted, the first being in Cleveland Ohio. Competition to a full moon in a clear atmosphere is not easily appreciated; but the experiment, if it can be called such, was a success. The machinery erected was not quite perfect in its working, but it was demonstrated that our streets may be illuminated with a light far superior to that of gas. Every foot of ground in the plaza was lit up with nearly the distinctness of day-light.