To Cut Street Lights in Half at Midnight
- Steve Barnett
- Feb 1
- 1 min read
From The Indianapolis News, Monday, February 1, 1926: Indianapolis will be only half lit tomorrow at midnight. As an experiment to keep the street lighting bill within the budget for the year, assistant city engineer Arthur Haufer announced that all streetlights on one side of each main thoroughfare will be turned off promptly at midnight Tuesday. It is estimated this action will save the city $15,000 (2024: $271,273) annually and an additional saving of $28,000 (2024: $506,376) will be made by reducing the lights in the overhead globes from 1,000 to 600 candle power. This action was approved by the board of works after receiving a report that the present arrangement for street lighting would exceed the budget. The board also cancelled plans for extending new lighting service. Merchants Heat & Light Co has a ten-year contract with the city.
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“To Cut Street Lights in Half at Midnight,” The Indianapolis News, 1 February 1926, p. 1:7
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