The First Edison Central Station- 10
The few days' interruption of the service was the only serious one that has taken place in
the history of the New York Edison Company from September 4, 1882, to the present
date. The Pearl Street station was operated for some time subsequent to the fire, but
increasing demands in the mean time having led to the construction of other stations, the
mains of the First District were soon afterward connected to another plant, the Pearl
Street station was dismantled, and the building was sold in 1895.
The prophetic insight into the magnitude of central- station lighting that Edison had when
he was still experimenting on the incandescent lamp over thirty years ago is a little less
than astounding, when it is so amply verified in the operations of the New York Edison
Company (the successor of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York) and
many others. At the end of 1909 the New York Edison Company alone was operating
twenty-eight stations and substations, having a total capacity of 159,500 kilowatts.
Connected with its lines were approximately 85,000 customers wired for 3,813,899
incandescent lamps and nearly 225,000 horse-power through industrial electric motors
connected with the underground service. A large quantity of electrical energy is also
supplied for heating and cooking, charging automobiles, chemical and plating work, and
various other uses.
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