A committee from the commercial organization visited the merchants doing
business in the section which it was desired to improve and secured from them
agreements that they would install the system themselves as an experiment.
As soon as this work was completed and the lights were turned on, almost
immediately popular sentiment demanded the installation of a more complete
system and today, Minneapolis has miles of streets lighted by the Tungsten
lamps set on ornamental iron standards.
Other cities caught on very rapidly and today it would be difficult to men-
tion all which have adopted this system of street lighting in whole or in part.
Some which may be mentioned are Indianapolis, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Day-
ton, Ohio, Warren, Ohio, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, New York City, Chicago, Illi-
nois, Toronto, Ontario, Washington, D. C, Abeline, Kansas, South Bend^
Indiana, and one might go on almost indefinitely mentioning others.
Besides the system of street lighting with the use of ornamental standards
and Tungsten lamps other systems have appeared such as the arch system and
the flaming arc system, both of which are improvements over the old arc sys-
tem. The arch system consists of a string of small incandescent lamps stretched
from one side of the street to the other at regular intervals along the length of
the street. The chief objection to this system is that it gives a city an appearance
of celebrating some special event because of the appearance of impermanency
which is not to be found in the system where ornamental standards are used.
