New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-17


struck BIZ falling wires but INCOME was nurt
xrFEcT ON THE COMPANIES
Engineer Kearney, Of the Board OK Eiectricai
Control who Was present. when the Brush wlfes
were cut said that the company hsd informed tne
Bureau az Lamps and Gas that unless the sdttng
Of their wires ceased, they should lake down ah
Of fhe.r lampposts throughoub the city, as tney
vere unable 70 fulhl their contracts with tine ciw
and with their customers: The United Ss inns
illuminating company sooa te SSwn nornins and
thereby saved small portion OF lts pIePe d1
The twelve Western Union wires Guy ny r Tsls-
tssnthss We're pssd eS vac upeofSon Of tckers'
shove Fourteentilst All Of these ins5ru mems
were useless after O'CLOCK, anu ~ untoon hotels
yenence was caused TO cussoners III up'o"n nossi'
and branch brokerage omceSs ,,-..ss 80 ,lo c,aJd
Altoaefber seventy seven tckers VI thc Sela
and Stock comp.ny s were "hNye Fonrteenth.ss have
shrs. y insfrDments and 10 was common saying
before night that where there had been uoKers
'ns H. wes,srn Union Company derives positive
benefit by the cutting down Of its poles and wires
above Fourteenth.st. Above that thoronghiere
SIS trunk hines run along the elevated foaas w, nd
branch Offices The poles and wires that it former.
IL used arc now abandoned, excepting rev hae
have been used by the Gold and Stock COMPANY .I ny
and by uptown lessees of private wires. by re-
moving these poles and wires, which are p sealT
rotten and worn out, the Department OF fu1no
Works saves the to tine each po
Superintendent Humstone said that the company
would NOT be embarrassed until poles ana wires
are cut down below % Sn1 TeeDSone
Company, declared that his company would not
Lose any subscribers until wires were cut ooMn
below Johnst In all subway sections ABOVE res 10
operation underground The Sommerc'a al is aar
gram Company's " ticlzers,D and those useq ZOE
sporting news, have not been dlsturDso. my
are worked by wires running over housc'ops'
THE HOTELS AND THEATRES.
The FIFTH Avenue Hotel uses gas exclusively, and
the Hoffman House has its own incandescent cleo
frie light plant. The Albemarie, st. James ana
Grand use gas and the Gilsey has arc-hghted lob
bies Only the arc lights will be affected, ana no
tells and cafes using them will have to use gas
until the high tension currents are made 10 work
satisfactorily underground
Among the electric light companies the worst
sufferer by the days operations was tine brush
Electric Illuminating Company, and some OF their
patrons were affected just as soon as the wires were
emf. This company supplies arc lights for the
Easements and dark corners OF number OF large
mercantile establishments uptown during the Day
time as well as power to run number OF eie-
yators The wires Tor some Oh tnese eS'aD .hsio
,nents ran along the east side Of Broadway, where
Superintendent Richardson began WORK, and INC
current was cut OF without warning. Many busi;
ness houses below Fourteenth-st were also anecyeu
for a time but repairs were quickly made IN TINS
section. and the circuits were completed long be
fore dark Above Fourteenth-St,, however, amos'
the entire system of the company was paEslyzeui
about the oaly exception being in thenelgnDOrnooa
Of -Thirdave The fun list of lines cut on, Us
given by Assistant Superintendent t1erce was as
follows FouIth-ave., from Fourteenth-st 70 orty-
second St Fifth-aye, Broadway and Seventn-ave.,
each from Foutteenth-st. 70 Fifty -ninsh-sti ana
Tourteenth-st Twenty ST., THIRTY. iourth-st,
Forty-second-st. and Fifty-ninthSt, besides oni9n
Sduare and Madison Square and Irving Pace. In
this section ell OF the street lamps were out at
night as we'll as the lights ut the entrances 20 most
Of the theatres and in the oihces OF NUMBER VI
hotels The Brush people denied that their cur.
vents were kent on with malicious intent, and said
they had no official notice before the work was pc
gun The officers of the company denoHhee nv l
proceedings as a high-handed outrage Inc ngnt
MAS for a time cnt of from Barnum's menagerle IN
the Madison Square Garden but connection was
soon effected with the Third-avs system.
II was said that the United States Illuminating
Company was not at all affected last night, but TO
NIGHT the Lotos and Union clubs and the Sont-
nenta Hotel will be without their elsc e sbs nar
OF town visited yesterday. The Manhattan y Elec.
THO Light Company alss say that they Will not
have single light put out as snslr d w The
Edison Company has an underground system OF aus
own and is not in any way affected $1,000
The principal streets in the district afectsd pre-
sented a curiously primitive appearance in the
evening. The Department OF Public WORKS had
put up few burners and globes ON the unused -
It's desire to extend its business helped ont the De-
nartrnent to the best Of, its ability. Palmer anu
f,aivss Theatres and the Bijou placed calcium
lights at their main entrances, but some OF inc
piay-houscs, including the Broadway and the Ly.
sfseoted by the present hostfties. The Hotel YEN
dome and the Marlborough managed TO get along
without their regular number of lights, put com
rarotiyely few OF the hotels use the Brush system
and consequently were not troubled. All along the
linz Announcements have been made for an increase
Of gas facilities, and bisy time IS expecteo oy pne
pasffters