Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 152

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY. MAY 10, 1931 Water Power ficientdrop. This is especially true NIGHT SPORTS. OLDEST FELLOWSHIP" In the Lower Peninsula, where It is A fer.A ew nea tot electrical The oldest fellowshln ryit fri ifiitp necessary to impound a river for Illumination has been provided search In the world, It believed UUW III UldlC mllM of Ju ength orde. tQ cre.

through the growing popularity of Is that which has been maintained Utilities Build Now For Future Expansion Although Michigan is a rugged ate a alzahln reservoir of nower. night sports. The technique of for the past 30 years at the state, and despite an abundance of This In turn means the construction lighting a football stadium has been sity of Michigan. Prof. Alfred it rivers, the development of water of costly dams and the necessity developed to the point where the White, head of the department of power Is surprisingly low.

The of acquiring expensive rights of way field is made literally as bright, as chemical enlgneerlng, has been Faith of a high order Is required monly are built Hnead from three nnuu, fc ia eiLMuuieu. 10 um lions mar nnrnnn or me river jcv uuum vujri.uuuauic viwieo uic leiiowsnir. was it lo nve years. wmw jrt-m Greater rivers do not nave sur- affected hy the raising of the water, in me eyes or sjieciaiurs. luunueu.

4 when the formation of a cause of the fact that these com- rtrolt nrea flr9t WBs being panics ever must build In advance broached someone suggested that of the requirements of the moment, the utility companies be warned of Some businesses may struggle the Impending additions to the along from hand to mouth; few political city in order that they firms add to their facilities until might lay their plans accordingly, experience Indicates a need for What was the surprise of the warn-additional equipment. No such ing committee to discover that policy can be followed by a utility, most of the utlltles already had an-pledged to public service. nexed. so far as thev were con- A public utility, by the very na- cerned. most of the territory in-ture of its license to operate, exists volved In the proposed metropolis to serve the people first, then to re- tan district.

turn a profit. Its service is a neces- The Detroit water board at the slty in most instances, deprivation of present time Is building equipment which would work a hardship upon designed to care for the water the community. Thus those who needs of Detroit's population of 10 supply the water, electricity, gag years hnce. The Detroit Edison and transportation are obligated always is several years ahead of not only to afford continuous serv- actual demand, while the Michigan Ice, but to have available at all Hell Telephone companv and the times service for whatever popula- Detroit City Gas company likewise tlon expectedly or unexpectedly always are prepared to take care may accrue. of any Increase In demand, no mat- Thus most utility companies com- ter how rapid.

Tim i fl I I I I I I ii I I I I i i i i i i i Telephone Made Wide World Little Village (Continued from Page One) site of the Cadillac Motor Car company plant. The Stearns line and the line between the editorial office of the The Free Press and the American District Telegraph company continued to operate. Four telephone were Installed for the Detroit water works, one at the old pumping station, located at the foot of Orleans street; another at their reservoir farther up that street; the third at their office, and the fourth at the new pumping station on East Jefferson avenue. In August, 1878, the first exchange was opened in the basement of the old Telegraph block, southeast corner of Congress and Oris-wold, In the rear of the office of the American Dintrlct Telegraph company. The first Detroit telephone directory made Its appearance September 15.

1S7S. It was an eight-page affair. No numbers were given, for there were no numbers at that time. Calls were placed by name, a practice continued for several years. Interesting Items of the telephone development of that period can be found in the columns of The Free Press.

On January 21, 1S80, the following item appeared: "Telephonic communication with Windsor was established yesterday. It works admirably. Detroit telephoned can now sit In their offices and talk with 'them furrlners' as conveniently and easily as if they were face to face." Other Items appeared frequently, among which one finds that ou January 24 of the same year, "Telephones have been placed in all the fire engine houses in the city, and much time and labor are saved In the way of asking for and deliver in mm isi2i i sw I rrt'. I I i ill "--e. I wtV Gas Lit Street? years the Michigan Gas association has maintained a research fellow- is' ship at the University of Michigan.

A Mad Dream trial fellowship In the United Stales. in Gas Popular As Home Fuel 1 Vi.v: 'A (Continued from Page One) per cent, was being used for Industrial, commercial and miscellaneous purposes, and close to 2 per cent was being used for house heating. Michigan industries make a very large and widely variegated use of gas. The automobile Industry uses It for motor testing, for Beat treating, for baking enamels and finishes, for Japanning, for baking cores, and for various other pur -1 -n -l tfll i-- III' A growing field for the use of gas is found In the development of house heating. The major draw-back thus far has been the comparatively high cost of artificial poses.

Food product factories and bakeries baking. use it for roasting and consumer musi pay tne Hotels, restaurants and gas company for the coal, and for few other Institutions use it for cook- the cost of converting It Into gas lng. Woodworking Industries use and piping it to his premises. The it for heating glue and various so- cost of distribution Is one that the lutlons. Hank Instrument and metal consumer Is apt to overlook, but it working Industries use It for fine is very real to the gas company, soldering and finishing.

It is used which frequently has more money even in the making of radio tubes. Invested In the pipes underground One of the marked advancements than It has in the manufacturing of the Michigan gas industry In plant above ground, recent years has been the taking Thus If we take gas at the pres-of gas through high-pressure mains ent price and compare It with raw to outlying communities and to coal, we find that the actual cost towns so small as to he unable to of heat units Is more than three afford gas plants of their own. times as much In the form of gas These 270 communities are sup- as In the form of soft coal. How-plied from 57 generating plants. It ever, gas can he used more is an interesting fact that while efflcienlly than coal, and.

when the the output of the Michigan gas In- greater economy is taken Into ac-dustry has doubled in quantity dur- count, we find that the cost of gas lng the past eight years, the num- as a fuel for house heating Is but ber of generating plants has actual- two to two and one-half times as ly decreased. This Is because the great aj that of soft coal, modern gas plant can be operated Tur iuriu crnur more efficiently and more economl- THE KITCHEN STOVE cally in large units than in small. The kitchen stove, crude as it The Michigan gas industry dates was in the early days, still was a back close to 70 years. The Michi- momentous improvement over the gan Gas association, which is rep- fireplace In which the housewives resentatlve of the Industry, is 40 of pioneer days did their cooking, years old. It Is Indicative of the Baking then had to lie done In a forward-looking spirit of the lead- clay oven built in the yard.

Ilium-ers of the industry that lor 30 Ination was by candle light. ing supplies. Five days later It said, "The wires for the telephone to connect the county Jail and police headquarters were strung yesterday," and on February 9, "Telephones were Installed In the county Jail and the office of the clerk of the police court yesterday." In 1891 Detroit possessed several thousand telephones, and It was deemed advisable to establish another central office. The existing office was given the name "Main," and a second office, called "North," was opened In the rear of Simons ft Cooper's drug store, corner of Woodward avenue and Duffield street. In the meantime, cable had come Into UBe and the first section of underground cable was placed In June, 1891, from the coiner of Third and Grand River avenues to the newly established North central office.

That was the Initial step In building the vast system of underground telephone cables now connecting the 18 manual and 15 dial telephone central offices of Detroit today. i 211 7 vt- 13 'SJiiok act if OajEBat '3e i3E 1 CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY OF MICHIGAN 1 t-Tfe-; I In Junction Dam on the Manistee River, just a few miles down stream from the Hodenpyl riant. LM Five Channels Dam, one of Consumers Power Company's six water-power plants on the Au Sable River. The others are Alcona, Foote, Cooke, Lond and Mio. 1 H.

C. Cobb, New York City, General Office Building of Consumers Power Company at Jackson, Mich. Charles W. Tippy, of Jack son, Michigan, Vice-Presi- and formerly of Grand Rap- ids, who is President of kvmrirTfri ft Tr n-rr nrwti'n rm-vf ri dent and General Manager Consumers Power Comnany. EVA AVvAVWAtyvAV iXV of Consumers Power Co.

Hodenpyl Dam of Consumers Power Company on the Manistee River midway between Cadill ac and Man- hjffJ-hest dam on w. i Istee. This is the highei 1: Consumers System, except the new Ifonlv Plan rn 1 11 clr ocr- ti Iffvot IT1 W' 1 which will be completed this spring Saginaw River Steam Plant at Zilwaukee between Bay City and Saginaw. This plant has a capacity of some 400,000 horsepower. It is one of the company's major electric power centers.

The huge sub-station is shown at the right. 4Wr 1 7v I Striking aerial view of Croton Dam, Croton Village and the confluence of the Big and Little Muskegon Rivers. Croton Dam was one of the first major hydraulic projects on the west side of the State and is only six miles down stream from the new Hardy Dam, now nearing completion, and to be the biggest dam on Consumers System. It will have a head of 100 feet. Saginaw River Gas Plant of Consumers Power Company, located at Zilwaukee.

and serving both Bay City and Saginaw with gas, through high-pressure gas transmission mains. New (3as Plant of Consumers Power Company, of Mint. Michigan. 4.