AN ENGLISHMAN IN SPAIN.—A CORRECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—As a regular reader of your paper I came across, in the Spectator of May 14th, an article headed " An Englishman in Spain," signed "M." In this article " M." writes as follows : —" An English company, much taxed and resented, provides the electric light, which is everywhere, but always going out." Will you allow me through your columns to state that your correspondent, " M.," is lying under a misapprehension P The English company, of which I have been Chairman since the start, and which only commenced giving light on October 15th Last, has had the light fail twice,—once through the bad quality of the English coal obtainable in Malaga, which would not give sufficient steam (which difficulty has since been overcome by the company shipping its own coal), and the second time through the gas company, doubtless uninten- tionally, in trying to find some leak in their own service, having driven a spike, not only through the high-tension cable. but through the Doulton culverts, in which, as in the
best English systems, our cables are all laid. I will not refer to the few other inaccuracies in "M.'s" letter, as they do no harm to any one.—I am, Sir, &c., ROBERT C. WYATT, Chairman of the Malaga Electricity Company, Limited. 41 Moorgate Street, London, B.C., May 17th.
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