New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-01
DIR GREEN ON UNDERGROUND WIRES.
GIVING HIS OPINIONS TO THE ELECTRICAL SUB
WAY COMMISSION.


GIVING HIS OPINIONS TO THE ELRCTRlCAL SUB
WAY COMMISSION
The Electrical Subway Commissioners met yester-
day at their new quarters In west lwenty-tnlru-st'
Communications were reoeSeq Irom se Coas and
Bentley, Knight d Co. Several models Were also
exhibited, accompanied by descriptive circulars
DIR. NOryln Green, president OF the western Ohton
Company, was present aud spoke concerning the
wires of that company. In response 70 question
he said that the Western Union had some OF ITS
wires placed underground and that II had tried
various systems of subway electrical wires but on
the whole none had proved entirely SATISFACTORY
The Brooks system was used by 1t to some extent,
and also system of its own, In which the wires
were placed in three-ipch IRON tubes protected by
gutta-percha, but In these they had found
the Insulation insufficient. Parafine OIL IN
jscted through the tubes had given better results
than anything previously used. In speaking OF the
cost of subway wires compared with those placed
on poles, DR.. Green said that the underground
wires cost about 500 mile and overground wires
about $22. The former were also more expensive
as they only lasted about onethird as long as the
latter His company had also o iron ver
longer than those running under ground. HIS
opinion was that electric light wires and telephone
wires could not be placed in the same tube, as
the strong current Of the former would SO impair
the force of the latter as to render them almost
useless. The telephone companies, he said, had
about three times many wires in the city as the
Western Union Company, but their wires did not
cover so large an area as the Western Unions
q DIR. Green then spoke Of the wires used In Lon
ably arranged, as the wires were run along the
railroad structures from the central sta
tion to nearly, all the other sta
fering with any public business. The lines OF rail-
roads there entered the city, with few EXCEPTIONS
on heavy walls Of masonry, which the companies s
utilized for carrying most of their wires. The ele-
waited roads could also be used for the same Pur-
pose in this city. and the Western Union had al;
Avenue line But pneumatic tubes could not be
thus placed. the constant Earring was liable 10
loosen the joints OF the tubing, aud make constant
repairs necessary. The pneumatic tubing, how
ever, was cheaper in the end ordinary surfaces.
"When we put in the pneumatic tubes from the
Stock Exchange to the central office" DR.. Green
operators, as their services were no longer re-
CURED" DR.. Green promised TO submit map 10
the the nass OF Tine a.
heartily III favor Of any feasible plan adopted by
the commission.
After listening to few others the commission
adjourned until next Monday at 10 a. m.
INJURED BY THE FALL OF A sCAFFOLD.
The three-story house, No. 20 West Twenty
transformed into store. Its front has been torn
down, and the walls of a rear extension have been
the temporary seaoids for the brcSIayers, ten
feet above the first floor. broke down suddenly at
1890 a. m, yesterday, while five men were work
ing on ii, and they all fell In heap upon the floor.
Matthew Davis, age twenty-four, Of No 400 West
Nineteenth-st. had his thigh fractured and his leg
broken: Robert GAINS, age forty, OF No 4l0 East
Fifty received serious injury to his spine,
and George Kicker, of Newark, had his head cut Be-
verely. The other two men escaped injury. DAVIS
and Gains were sent to the New-York Hospital and
Kicker went home after his wound had been
dressed by surgeon. The work of alteration lie
being done under the supervision of Contractor
Francis Lyons. II was said yesterday that the &C
oideDt was caused by defect In one of the sup
ports of the scafold
NEW BUILDING FOR YOUNG WOMEN.
r. H. Robertson, the architect, Of No. 121 East
Iwenty-third-st., hied plans at the Bureau OF
Buildings yesterday for q building which Is to be
erected at No. 2 East Fifteenth-st by the Young
Women's Christian Association. The certificate OF
ownership was signed for the association by the
president, Maria Louise Beebe, of Quogue l.. !.
With frontage Of 20 feet and depth Of 100 feet,
the building will make On imposing appearance
when completed. IL will have five full stories and
an intermediate story and the height Of the struct
ure, from the curb level to the top of its peaked
roof will be 100 feet Two stories of the rear por-
ton will be occupied by chapel. The first story
10 front will contain parlor and two large employ
nent rooms. The library will occupy the second
apd intermediate stories of the middle front portion
Of the building There win be reading rooms on
the second floor at each side Of the library proper
nnd over each room, the intermediate story. will
be galleries. In the rear will be committee room.
The third. fourth and fifth stories Will Do divided
hto class rooms and private r0oma Brick and