At the meeting of the American Public Health Association held in Richmond in 1909, the subject of my paper was "Utilization in Connection with Incineration." In the course of the paper it was predicted that we would be doing street lighting and furnishing electric power for general purposes. Minneapolis has since developed the plan as outlined at that time and something of the process of evolution may be of interest. Beginning in 1908 the incinerator furnished sufficient power to generate electricity for the lighting of Hopewell Hospital and the workhouse buildings. Later in the same year the heating of the same buildings was taken over. This service has continued up to the present time. In May, 1912, we began the systematic lighting of public streets. At first this light was extended to include twenty-two miles of the city's streets. This has been gradually extended until now the street lighting includes thirty-one miles of streets. At the time the crematory began to do street lighting, the city was paying to the Minneapolis General Electric company $70 per arc light per year. The crematory furnished the service from the start fqr $60. As a result of this competition, the rates of the General Electric were cut first to $65 and since to $62.50. t