Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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E. Secretary and Resident Engineer, Cork Gas Company (1881-c.1895) (72 items)

(i) Correspondence from Denny Lane (1881-1893) (48 items)

83 16 June 1881 Letter, from Denny Lane, Secretary and Resident Engineer of Cork Gas Company, Birmingham, England, to J. O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘Since I set foot here I have been kept going so fast that I had no time to write’. Mainly concerns Lane’s activities in investigating gas and lighting systems in England. He has ‘written fully to Mr. Harrington about the Electric light’. Mentions that the public lighting in Birmingham near the Town Hall is the ‘best public lighting he has ever seen’, some lamps with ‘5 fish tail burners of Brass’, of excellent effect, like ‘a warm sunset in a fair autumn day’. Lane is ‘greatly pleased’ that Travers is recovering. Mentions cost of transporting pipes by steamer, suggesting a sailing vessel may be arranged. The engineers ‘have been most courteous and obliging’, particularly the President of the Gas Engineers (Institute). He stopped a row ‘by bland suggestions very unlike those of a fighting Irishman’. He has picked up a good deal of information and believes that the Cork gas works will be capable of meeting an increase in consumption of gas. Lane concludes by observing that the electric light is ‘nowhere’ and has ‘greatly served the interests of gas production’. 4pp 84 16 June 1881 Letter from Denny Lane, Secretary and Resident Engineer of Cork Gas Company, England, to ‘My dear Mr O’Mahony’, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘I have not received your letter enclosing the copy of the memorial to Cardinal Simeoni…’. Lane is sorry he cannot sign the document in the form it has taken ‘for more reasons than one’. He lists the reasons for this opinion. The letter related to the Church in the South Parish, Cork, mentioning the ‘removal of the Dean’, the ‘almost military organisation of the Church’ and the influence of the Dean over the Bishop’.

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