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: