New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
STILL CUTTING WIRES.
Is THE MANHATTAN COMPANY INTERFERING
COMPLAINT OF THE. WESTERN UNION ocMrASx
1.-THE STREETS IMPROVED.

COMPLAINT OF THE WESTERN UNION ooMrANh
-rHE STREETS IMPROVED.
The Commissioners of the Board Of Electrical
Control complain that employees Of the Mammalian
Elevated Railway Company persist In cutnng away
the ropes and wires attached to the STRUCTURE Is
GUYS for the temporary support Of decayed poles
which the worlSmen of the Department OF Pupho
Works are removing from Sixth-aye After tnese
guyss and number of fire -aarm wires had Deen
placed on the structure and had been cut away sew
eral times, Commissioner Gibbons complained 70
Captain Reilly, of the Nineteenth Precinct and an
officer was stationed in Sixth-ave,J near Thirty
ffth-st, to arrest any one interfering win Jus
wires. but no further molestation occurred.
Colonel f. K. Hahn, general manager OF the ROAD
said yesterday that 1t was not true that employees
Of the road had cut the guys" lie believed ~
TO have been done by men employed by companies
who have suffered from the raid on the poles ana
wires now going on. The company, he said, wouid
be perfectly willing to have these guy-ropes
and wires attached to the structure. Dut ~
was necessary that permission should be asked
In order to protect the structure as 1ar a.
nosible. an ironclad rule has been made long ago
that o roues or wires or other attachments should
be placed on the framework or pillars OF mo
structure without permission Whenever an em-
ploye discovers that anything has beer a.tacneo
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for instructions II permit has NOT been grantea
the attachments must be removed In the presens
case however, he said, no INSTRUCTIONS nau peen
asked for and no orders given concerning guy-rop"
The work of removing the lines has gone On rapid
since Wednesday saea of Of s the TACT
authorities Intended not only 70 Pun tn the noes and
UIrss are now down between Fourteenth ana r9ry
eSOna s In y Br0sassy a sna TSry ss
between Fifth and Sixth ayes. nnmoe' o -, naies
cross Fourteenth-st at University f2ee On .psn,y
or twenty five feet above the pavement, ana uniess
thew are removed before May they VIII NTH ,s 81
obstruction e the industrial seen bSs on oss Or trucks
10 a height of over thirty feet ShoYd Iho w1 VIZ
remain until May they Win probably DO cut 10 'u'
In humber of Instances the electric lighting com
oanles have made connections between incl, iasPs
and the underground wires mat Iney IN .hs snhways
declared would not work satisfactorily IN INC suo"''
DIRECTING TO THE WIRES IN PHILADELPHIA.
philadelphia, April 90 (speciaD.-Msyor Grants
action In summarily removing the telegraph poies
from the streets OF NewYork is bearing fruit In tns
CITY, A number Of citizens will soon cali upon
Mayor Filter to ask him to take similar action asa
m call his attention 10 the fact that In 1880 an
ordinance was passed by the Council ordering all
overhead wires to be placed in underground con-
duits within certain specified time; Inc wS,ss
the wires II the order was not compiled WIZ:
when the time for action arrived. COUNCILS pass
ali acton In the matter and since that time no
further steps have been taken except 10 reieT uo
subject 70 co%ntes &c for secsssd wres through
out the city, and twenty i've miles OF wlre unnss
ground. 1t Is the general bel.af that In view %, y.
rigorous policy inaugurated In New-York, Nne
speedy action will be taken here in the matter