New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-14
LINENEN HARD AT WORh.
A BIG JOB REPAIRING THE WIRES.
THE LOCAL SERVICE RrcovERfSG-A FEW LINKS
RUNNING NORTH AND WEST.

THE LOCAL SERVICE KrcovERiSG-A FEW LINKS
RUNNING NORTH AND WEST.
little could bs done yesterday toward repairing Tho
damage done by the storm to tho electric WIGS Largo
gangs of lInemen started cut early and Ecpt
busy all day, but there so many broken wircs
and poles to TX up that Ittj~ moro could be done
than clear away the wreck /. .orce OF over 100 men
were sent In sleighs 10 do what they could toward
axlns UP tho wires toward Newark, Passsic, Patcr-
son and other neIghboring cities forco of Inc
men and operators also held Ia readiness TO start
with tho first outgoing trains But tho big drifts
along the highways made work Of any Kind outside
the city exceedingly difficult.
FEW oUTOF-TowN CONNECTIONS LEFT.
The officials Of the Western Union Company ac-
knowledged that IL had no connections outoftown
except with Chicago, Pittsburg, Buffalo and few
other Western and Northern points. "We haven't
an available wiro In the city," said superintendent
brennan "An our local business is being done
through tho tubes, and everything Is taken subject
to delay. We have duplex wire to Cincinnati
that is working fairly we'll quadruplex and
Wheaistone to Chicago Is also doing nicely. so is
one duplex wire TO Plttsburg and two bankruptcies
to Buffalo Our Buffalo business Is now clear East
and South wires all down We arc now In
regular communication with Albany, Syracuse, Utica,
Newburg, Rondout HUDSON PeelShll, Tanytown,
and nearly all stations on tho West Shore Road Tho
ocean cable business Is in good shape. In every d.
rection from this city poles and wires are down.
1t will tsSs several days to rcIair tbem.'
THE UNITED LINES LITTLE LUChIER
At tho Offices OF the United Lines Company, httio
better report made in regard to Ncwiork Tho
man,rcr said that tho local wires remaining up were
I'm pretty fair shape orc to the Hoffman House
worked all right. So did throe in Brooklyn ana
ono in Jersey City Tho United Lines to Chicago
were working all right, Tho company had commu
nIcation with Boston
On Monday telephone people seemed to think that
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beyond tho tearing down of their limo Of poles In
West Elevcnth-st. But yesterday 1t was learned
that nearly a dozen moro down in Tenth ave.
~ One hundred nd fortichst., several In Harlem
number in Droohyn and in other places Thirty isots
men wero sent to West Eleventh st. and kept theIe
q In i3rty-elrhf hours said Mr. Brown, tho supenn
tcrdent of tho construction department, VIC shah
havc things in shape that we can at least take
care of ninotenhs OF all tho business have offered
Ia rs General Eckert however feared that severa
days would pass before things wero put entirety IN
Tho Long Distance Telephone Company malni aimed as
sorm. when this became known downtown there
was a regular rush for tho company5 oneeS Wnlon
I'm Courtandtst. Tho other points reached by TINS
company wcro cut on
BETTER LIGHT IN THE STREET AT NIGHT
Ono OF the most dlsagreesb!e features OF tho s'tha
ton on Monday night tho darkness that prevailed
ALL over the CITY, The fow electric lights that would
burn wcrs turned of precautionary measure, ana
the gas lamps blown cut This was not repeated
last evening. All the streets and Squares wcro
Illuminated to a great extent though the big tower
lights I'm Madison and Union Square were not Ill.,
The officials O; the United States Illuminating COM
pany, which lights great deal OF tho lowoI par,
Of Tho city, claimed that their system worked all
right but thcy deemed 1t turn of tho circuits
70 prevent fires on Monday night For example ono
large lamp In front of Fnsyfhs store NO EOl BROAD
way was blown through tho heavy plato glass win
dow. Had It been 1T the place would have ocGn SET
an fire SIMILAR statements were mado oy the BIn5h
neopie who light most OF tho uptown streets the
Thomson Houston Company and Others. fhey dd
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lamuS were frozen and also that the circuits failed
10 work frequently on account OF the storm.