New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-17
UNDERGROUND WIRES.
THE nuL SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR.
ru.r DIR. NoRvIN GREEN sAYs-NEcEssirf of
THE USE OF POLES.

yu.r mr.. NoRvrN GREEN sAYs-NECEssirY OF
THE USE OF POLES
Avrono the bills signed by the Governor on Sat,
urday one recurring tslegrapn sc,Tpn0ao The
full text OF the law is not at hand put unaer
stood that all wires must be laid below the surface
before 0 tss westerns Union Telegraph COM
pany, said of tho act yesterday
The bprovidss that in cities OF 500 goo nhsSi
sns all wires wires must them and
place them under ground before November 1850 1S
companies as neglect to place them under ground and az
that city shall make the laying Of wres pnaer n been
modified in its passage but as understand ha scss
substantially the one signed by ,hs SeVG 6sS peec
right to adopt but the second and 'ha SSgps
not to have 90 sse down the wires BY
this than t. can order me 70 tear
the wires put under ground by certain date out
no. pc1 lawyer but the bill seems defect
I've IN not having repeating clause unrepeaeo, .Ie
statutes giving power TO build telegraph lines are sun
The wires underground No. cannot say that this com;
T or w met Elise Thore are other
companies which have greater reasons 70 oppose It, Up
we yees OWN in 9 Sis city while the telephone
have probably 10000 miles The western oplon mas mas
ssSeSa aee south and west to the exchanges and
the north the wires are ready to be placed IN @
tend this line to Forty-second-st and the
Grand Central Depot Long before the eno OF
the perod named in the bill all our
tnk lines In this city will probably be underground III
Is hardly probable however that the city would enforce
the law No penalty for disregardng u has Deen pro
yided Paris and London have large underground sys
TENS hut In addition perfect networks OF overhead
wires do not think that New-York Will ever remove
MI It's pole wires. The people will insist upon
having conveniences which they now enjoy rms com,
pany for instance has 147 branch offices IN the cy pu
II This law ehOuld be enforced more than bali OF the
would be closed at once. Should we run wires uhuer
ground to a remote Office which now Is kept open
merely for public convenience But the eject
of The law would be still greater on
Telephone and district messenger companies The service
wod he restricted il would be almost useless In
large and the distances short the companies might put
their wires under ground but they could not possibly
afford TO do in other sections OF the cry IL
would not take long convince people OF the neon
yenienoe caused by the law. / am quite sure tnat Tue
oppostion companies would suffer much more than we
sRoud IL the should be enforced 1t would not cost
us much more carry all trunk lines out OF the city
under ground, but our opponents would nave 10 Degm
Mt the beginning That reminds me that some persons
say that we are not making money DO YOU realize tna
when we have paid the dividend for this quarter we sna
have pad ont January l, 1881, exactly SlsOOO-
600 In diyd In the three and hall years we
have added ID plant $4,000 which makes totaI
Of SOS 700 900. We sold in that time Sl00OO0O
bonds. FOR which received about Tl,lOO,-
600 aud II few other things, amounting
uartapS 10 100000. All the rest OF these payment.
we been from earnings for we have no floating deOt OF
ay kind And st there persons who say we are Hot
earning money. Where do we get itl