Abstract :
The conference of mayors and other city officials of New York State at its last meeting authorized the appointment of a committee to study street lighting and make recommendations for more efficient and more economical lighting. The Empire State Gas and Electric Association was asked to cooperate and name two members of the committee to work with the two named by the conference and the fifth member to be an expert of a manufacturing organization. The engineers named by the conference were Mr. A. E. Fisher, consulting engineer of the City of Rochester and Prof. Rich D. Whitney, head of the department of Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University and Consulting Engineer, Bureau of Gas and Electricity, City of Syracuse. Those named by the association were Mr. A. F. La Comtse of the Brooklyn Edison Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. and Mr. W. C. Pearce, engineer of the Syracuse Lighting Co., Syracuse, N. Y. The fifth member is Mr. A. B. O´Day of the Harrison, N. J. works of the General Electric Co.
