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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
stock were opened, and L. M. Hannum, A. P. Morse, Dr. Charles Bullock, S. S. Sleeper, C. W. Kingsley, Gustavus Goepper, and others became stockholders, there being twenty-four in all. John E. Burgess, George A. Burgess, and P. A. Underwood were elected directors, and, January 27, 1886, were made officers of the company at a meeting of the stockholders then held: John E. Burgess, president; George A. Burgess, treasurer; P. A. Underwood, clerk, and E. H. Mulliken, superintendent. On December 30, 1886, the board of aldermen authorized the company to erect and maintain poles and wires on Main Street from West Boston Bridge to Brattle Square, and soon after a few arc lamps were installed. On September 1, 1887, 77 public arcs, 7 commercial arcs, and 847 incandescent lamps had been installed in the city. At this time the city lighting was very poor, owing to the system in use and the imperfect construction of the lines and poles. In time that was obviated by the introduction of a n