The evening world., 1889-12-16
LAST edition
FIVE GANGS TO-DAY.
reinforcement Of Commissioner GIL
rOy'S Army Of Wire and
POle-ChOpperS
Companies Trying Vainly to Save
Their Circuits.
Forty Thousand Feet Of Death
Leaking Wire Removed.

There was q temporary hitch this morning
in the electric w~irc-cutting and pole-chop-
ping campaign, but it was only because
Commissioner Gilroy is q careful man. and
wanted to be perfectly sure that the con-
tractors and inspectors were doing their
duty faithfully.
The inspectors and their squads we're all
at their posts at o o'clock this morning and
preparing to 60 on with the work where
they left of yesterday when messengers
from Supt. Cummings, Of the Bureau OF In
cumbrances, brought word that Commits
sioner Gilroy wanted to see all the inspectors
and contractors at his Office at 10 O'Clock.
All the men quit work immediately and
repaired to the Commissioner Office. These
were Inspectors Roth. Reilly, Fitzpatrick
and Schwartz, and the two new men, Brown
and Gavan, who are in charge Of the two
gangs which have been organized to remove
the dangerous wires and poles in the an
nexed district. also Contractors Hess and
Corrigan.
ELECTRIoAL COMPANIES KICKING.
Commissioner Gilroy had been informed
sSm the REPRESENTATIVES tSs. S. %S OF t the S electric Sst tiE9t
ing. good wires and cutting down poles
which in no way violated the rules Of the
wanted 70 find ont II this was So.
After O long conference with the inspec-
tors he was perfectly satisfied, that the work
tb = peen zone 20 Ia[ GO 0nsciHn rm % aIo
lessly destroyed. and the. gangs were sent
out again to resume work in earnest.
STARTING OUT AGAIN.
route on Broadway' and tackled the poles
and wires on the east side OF the street. be-
ginning ut Walker street. The lines of poles
Ssc ta5s SSlR NTH Sr su A, I to Of b tbs sI Bosrd gST Tspu in
lations, which provides that No two lines
OF poles bearing conductors OF q IKE class or
character snail De erected IN any one street
those poles have thirteen electric wires
the n ~, Msn hrTsS nCS o0In an Tbe sno rem s,bWsr
already completed on that side OF Broadway
Tor electric-hght wires.
pu,.,Mn ri Il LA ZEE mAI ..,
.CbaWhsrs 70 WWniIer streaf and hv tooniebt
the Work viii TprobabIv be completed Az lar
az s Sprlhs street rect vo-o ono.ood al ,ho r,orD-
inc ramoyin1 Tie noIea yxhfch had hesn ont
down veSterdaV and Iookin9 ont for The
debris which resulted from to-day's work.
Inspector Roth expects to have 40, feet
HARD AT WORK UPTOWN.
Irapactor Re;Ilv and b;s oong rasrrnod
work At The same time St SIhfrtVoe;9htS
street and Tbird ayenne and viii contSnna
tbe;r wnrk ,1ntov GIenTTeh, o aH iob ~ n o4inaSnnIIee
one on acconnt ~ The Great Dnmher ~ nroas
wires which crosa the lSne At the aida streetsl
The rnnta wSfccb "a HAM, FooI1nwedd In nv -:
Inanector Fit1nSfricl %agsn tbis nnorn;nc
ut attgBHIe eecHer f NV TbnH meg Degaa ntr .nls mO or /
WeatWard. He eInects To TemoVe 10. eo3
feet ~ wire and n largo nnmher ~ noies
TO-DAY. ~ N ~ ~ ~
Insnector Scbw.rtz continual bis wav
down Third ayenne. beSininR at twenty.
S neIn street, where ne knocked OH last
MONTHS WORK.
One new route was started to-day from
NE Central Station of the North New York
Illuminating Company, at One Hundred and
west Of Thind avenue. Inspector Brown
M cnsrge OF IT. lhe other gang Tor the
annexed district VIII be started tomorrow
u4aer us cnargo OF INSPECTOR dayan.
abead for thnsa ;ns. SneIe 10 lonn Ot t6am nG %ns1
for q month at least.
Commissioper Gilroy saws he has the
greatest difficulty in getting climbers and
hnemen. and though the contractors have
now increased their force 20 fifty-three mon
1t has been found that a great many Of the
men who have been hired as expert climbers
have had no experience at ali.
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An amns;Uo incident occnrred whom tba
RToSdwey gang started out THIS morning at
NJ AM s'I wSo IN adRSSr prev WeI ro M IS NIL msn ~ :
and nippert, aud Contractor Hess ordered
soon as he could get his dxings on.
The way ne started at it made all the rest
stopped in the street to witnese The Indie
orus performance
,.McGrath grabbed the pole with both arms,
like a bow startinT TO climb an ample tree
and gave several frantic kicks with his legs,
He mAnRRed nv gigantio efforts To get I'M
about eight Feet, and then ciwng to the pole
the very picture of desna;r. while the crowd
yelled in derision. ''
Come down there I" shouted Mr.. Hess,
well, fSii down then