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ing picture theatre is most aggravating. They figure, with much shrewdness, that the theatre must have electric light, and usually push prices up to the last notch.
It is not unusual to find a theatre using 1,000 to 1,500 K. W. monthly, charged at the rate of 12 to 15 cents a K. W., while an auto garage, saloon, or butcher shop a few doors away is paying from 3 to 5 cents per K. W. on a consumption of one-tenth as much.
In very many of the smaller towns, a serious loss to the show owner lies in the inability to get current in the day time, which cuts into his possible revenue to the extent of 20 to 40 per cent.
Revolting against these conditions, many owners have within the past year or so put in their own electric light plant, thus cutting the cost of current materially; but, as most of these plants consist of the ordinary type of gas engine, the regulation is not improved, because the standard type of gas or gasoline engine is not suitable for this work, and will not regulate closely. Besides, these are usually put out with dynamos of 110 to 125 volts, so that half of the current is wasted in the arc lamp.
Again, these equipments, consisting of a gasoline engine belted to a dynamo, require a great deal of floor space, which is not always convenient or obtainable.
Further, if the show be a traveling one, the standard engine of even medium capacity weighs, with dynamo and equipment, from 2,500 to 6,000 pounds, involving much extra labor in handling on cars, or expensive wagon and team equipment.
In the Brush Electric Lighting Set, all the difficulties referred to in the foregoing are overcome. The 100page catalogue issued by the Chas. A. Strelinger Co.,