New-York tribune., 1886-01-31
TO PUT DOWN THE UIRES.
LABoRs OF THE SUBWAY COMMISSION.
SOME PLANS That HAVE BEEN TRr IN THIS CITY
A DECISION EXPECTED SOON

SOME PLANS That HAVE BEEN TRIt d ~ HIS CITY
A DECISION EXPECTED SOON.
The Electrical Subway Commission is becom-
ins An object OF interest "A the time for them 10 render
their decson which Is TO em5Ody the result Of their
months Of deepest thinking, AZ proaches Peopo ieane
that it to affect enormous interests the tri"i' and
trbulaous Of tho commissioners have been
grea and the collection OF brc-a brac that adorns their
ro,msat No. % est Twenty tnlrd ST. would make the
fortune o. dine museum The inOfensive commission
ers have compelled 70 listen 70 haransnes o. scores
q, inventors each talking with volubity, energy anu
prixty that only como to an Inventor when eNpiaung
ON the merits OF mis- latest idea Each expert has
begun by dsuravey wpiue a his brother exports out
a, and announcing that there Is only one ieas
HE subway structure and that he Is e prophet thereof
until Tho faith of tho commission IN tue honesty ana
ability OF mauklnd general aud inventors In particular
has peen shaken to It's Foundation
There 10 much confusion in tho public mind rs to just
what the duties OF the commissioners are and just now
hsv are to be discharged The law creating the com
mission states that It shall select or invent some system
OF subways and compel the electrical companies TO use H.
After the pan ad1peH tue Ii1so oa nov w ~ t 10 ON 20 D
pane, within such "a tune you must pdt your NlIes
hder ground tails style OF conduit there would
h scorn OF companies putting down SCORE OF condnlts
n tho principal streets al at the same ilie lnat
,youlCIn do at all and the only alternative IL Tor com
many to e formed wnich shall build system o cordus
on tho approved plan, anu rent thtlr space OUT 10 no
Various electrical interests It is In the formation or
ts cnmnauy thar there I'm the possibility OF q
lob Which has excited the Mysteries OF ne Hp,ss
81 far simple inventions without corporate backing have
been submitted tO the commission Inc ohS eAGel uon
to this been the Broo&s system whcn the m1seh @
Union Company Is said to have bought TOT s1oV'oVV
Tho representatives Of this system, guaranteed the
formation OF company win sHp9ent CAPITA 10 ! Pu, o y
models in the rooms Of the commission 10 unique ono
of them was gotten up by wOan ass as pN,c Iss h.
meets with the objection al plcsbe TO all systems IN
nnI io,nt With that material one wants to make
the condults sort OF annex 10 tue present sewers,
another wants to put them In Iron boxes on when the
rails OF the street railways shall rum anu c0nduits OF
iron of wnre of usphaun, OF wood and o every
conceivable material lie about the rooms. 49,. ,.
never been tried IN New York The Mctropohtsh lelo-
Connection With three OF Its exchanges In the spring
ST. district the Brooks system Is used Ine conuuiVs
and along Mercer St from Spring to Canal Tue BROOKS
system there employed consists primarily OF 0aoo
wires insulated from another ny tDe ordinary
abrous covering The cable runs through an Ho1 pIle;
which Is nlled with petroleum under pressure Ano ~ , 1
nreseryes the Insulating material from the action Oh te
atmosphere and OF water The pipe ltsen nes th
wooden condn flled with asphalt IN pasty con,sto;; o;
source further Insulation. The Edison systn Is so
at the Twenty frstst exchange Three or oui v"o" W.
aliao from the exchange In ss viou cous Of sSoat
two nunured wires Rsostai ak u inch IRON pipe At tho
c TSn S lS n s9"hange system Is ussd which is tho
| property OF the Western Electric MANUFACTURING oon
pany 1t consists OF cable OF wires WIN palno '
nbr9na Insulation in n lead pipe. AL OF these conultS
have hand holes every forty ieet at "nlo @ ir in in
tions can be made. Few oI them are over nan an u - ,
length and when tho point ia reached at wnch tho wires
must diverge they are mounted upon poles; s;r,v n,
1po much talked Dorset system. consists snpy VI
na,ant for "A compound In which asphalt Is the prib
cinaI element This compound is to be dsod III insHnS
thc conduts and the paent In no way eohtIos tno 40
oaI.. ar wires 10 be run through them Inc "ioptun
Of his or any other system would not give me re- in
nntronng IL a monopoly Of electrical communicate. III III
| fIe city The conduts simply to be oult ON On 'ao m
plan adopted and as many conpsnes na{ S re,p.in the
operty Of the con panies and may be OF iron or eop
r tod lf such wore desirable It WAS me eehcIh 49,
Inn Yesterday nInons electricians that 5ohi9 ~ t
schonars having become possessed WIN uo ho, ,,ie
| ak.,an had
less finnss to hammer that system Into Ssa'o u
| Quiesconc0s