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wrabaya the Surabaya Electric Tram Co. maintains a highly 
t tram service to all parts of the town. One branch of the 
1y’s track connects the harbor with the town, a distance of 
6 miles. The equipment and rolling stock of the Surabaya 
ay is of European manufacture and is thoroughly up-to-date 
sicient. 
i: LIGHTING 
HOME LIGHTING 
| a few years ago, homes in the Netherland East Indies were 
vorly illuminated because of the high rates charged for current 
1 ips of high wattage. During the last few years, however, there 
ten a tendency on the part of the power companies to make 
rates lower. An increase in the demand for lighting facilities 
* homes has been the result. Cheap German fixtures are used 
ing the native homes, while the wealthier class is furnished with 
5 of conventional Dutch design. 
ndas of all European and some of the better-class native homes 
ated by large standing lamps, which are used more commonly 
verhead lights because insects are attracted to the lights. The 
a lamps are usually covered with elaborate silk lamp shades, 
are made and sold very cheaply in Java. The lamps also are 
locally, of reed or teak or some other tropical wood. The 
we often beautifully carved by Chinese woodworkers. } 
homes mtended for Europeans are now being equipped with 
1 Interior lighting fixtures, but in the past the fixtures that were 
>d were of cheap and antiquated design. In the homes of the 
¥, however, elaborate glass chandeliers are found. This type 
ire 1s also popular with the better-class natives. oo 
types of fixtures found in living and dining rooms are varied. 
lamps, as well as highly decorated chandeliers of metal, sus- 
from the ceiling either by rods or chains, are used. ~~ 
rican manufacturers of home lighting fixtures will find it ex- 
y difficult to persuade electrical firms in Java to handle their 
ince the European goods are so firmly intrenched on the local 
t and so far below the American products in price that few 
ers would even try to introduce a new line. 
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progress in street lighting has not kept pace with other devel- 
ts in the use of electric power. The streets of the most im- 
t cities in the territory are poorly illuminated, and in many 
owns and villages there are no street lights of any description. 
lerican company, which has been endeavoring to introduce its 
lighting reflectors into Java for the last five years, has finally 
ded in interesting one of the large municipalities. This was 
however, only after tests over a period of several vears were 
with the reflectors. 
ranch office of a German manufacturer secures most of the 
ss in steel poles which support the electric wires used in convey- 
» current used in street lighting. American poles were used by 
vernment several years ago, but the climate had a deleterious 
on them; they soon corroded and had to be replaced. In the 
owns street lights are suspended from wires strung between 
oq that line the roadsides.