ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read your article on Electric Lighting with interest, and fully agree that the charges of the various Companies at present prevent its more general adoption. I wanted an in- stallation of thirty lamps, fifteen or twenty to be in use at once. The lowest estimate I received was over £150. This was, to my mind, too much. I therefore bought a dynamo, lead, lamps, &c., at various places, and put it in myself, following directions I obtained from several books on the subject. It cost me £41 complete, with driving-power and everything. It is now running, and has been running for eight months, with complete anceess, and has cost me 6d. only in repairs during this time.
If Companies would charge reasonable sums, I am sore they would soon have more work on hand than they could do.—I am,
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