The evening world., 1889-10-14
Commissioner GilrOy and q Big Gang
Of Men Out Cutting Wires.
Another Meeting Of the Board Of
Electrical Control
Mayor Grant Angry at the D~IlatOry
Subway Company.
Waiting for Judge Andrews to Dissolve
the Companies' Injunctions.

This morning Commissioner Gilroy set to
Wsrk to carry out the directions of Mayor
Grant that the improperly insulated wires re-
ported by Expert Wheeler should be cut.
He had a gang OF seventeen workmen, fur
nished by Contractors orrigan and Hess, along
the Bowery cutting wires all the forenoon.
The gang started from Cooper Institute under
the supervision OF Inspectors O'Rourke, Reilly,
Fitzpatrick and Roth, and worked all the way
down to Chatham Square, where they finished
about noon.
They found q large number of defective wires,
all of which belonged to the East River Electric
Light Company. and they were cut and removed
at once.
Srecimens of all the wives cut were taken to
the Bureau of Membranes, where there were
exhibited this afternoon.
VERY BAD SPECIMENS.
The joints were most of them imperfectly
wrapped. and OIL some Of the pieces the wires
were bare for several inches. showing signs Of
contact with exterior wires or substances.
COMPANIES HIDING DEFECTS.
1t wGs said by the inspectors Of the Board OF
Electrical Control that the Brush and the
United States companies, which own the most
OF the defective wires, have been sending large
gangs Of linemen all over town the past twenty
four hours, and are covering mp ~ much as pos
Bible all signs of improper insulation.
INJUNCIlOE me- os
The Mount Morris Electro Light Company
procured a temporary H. ction to-day from
tie Supreme Court against the Mayor and the
Board of Electrical Control
Mayor Grant came down to his office this
morning more determined than ever to bring
the defiant electric-light companies into sub
lection TO his authority.
He determined that to-day should decide
whetber the companies are to be permitted to
run their dangerous wires in opposition to the
rules Of the Electrical Board or not.
The Mayor said very emphatically that they
should not il the injunctions which the COM
pAnies obtained from Judge Andrews restraining
him from going on and cutting down the un-
safe wires could be dissolved.
The Board OF Electrical Control met In the
MAYORS Office to-day, in accordance with Satur-
days adjournment, to listen to Expert Schuyler
q. Wheeler's report ON his investigation into
the situation regarding the ''innocuous " and
dead" electric wires which are working death
among the people of New York.
Mayor Grant and Commissioners Gibbons,
Hess and Moss were all in their seats, and each
had expressed a determination to compel the
electric companies TO obey the laws and bury
their death-dealinR wires.
ELEcTRIoAL BOARD MEETING.
At the hour Of meeting the injunctions OBJ
tanned by two of the electric light companies
from Justice Andrews. restraining the Board
from cutting their overhead wires or taking
down their poles. had not been acted upon in
Supreme Court. and Mayor Grant read TO the
Board another Injunction obtained to-day by
the Electric Power Company.
,o A 0O9% sRs sttsRI fr PFaoi PfSsiFd9G at, C. Fl 4. Jack;
Company. asked Tie, Board to, provide, them
subway accommodations for their station at
2wenty-toHrth street and North River: up
They want them Immediately. and offer to con-
etrpct the, subways themselyes under the super
vision and at the expense OF the Board.
Oyer by THE BRUSH COMPANY.
The Brush Electrical Illuminating Company,
by President W.. 7. Moore, wrote, declaring
that they have had much trouble, with the Sub
way construction Company, and complaining
that the work of laying .Subways has been going
OF very slowly, Therefore they offered TO CON
struct Bubways for their own wires At their
own expense.
ANY ELECTRICIANS THERE.
Wheeler. H.. ,Peckham. Joseph Choate. Allan
At the meeting, and a score of electricians, big
Corporation Counsel Clark submitted, a writ
ten opinion to the Board to the effect that the
Board Of Electrical Control had not, by its con-
tract with the Subway Construction Company.
the Company had not been carried out according
had the power to make new contracts with tho
same or other parties: Should the Board decide
but that the work cannot be done rapidly
enough by one company, then the Board may
make other contracts with other companies.
THE COMPANIES FIGHT.
Mr.. Lautorbach, of counsel for the Consoli-
dated Electric Light and Telegraph and Subway
Company, read an opinion in which he called
attention to a clause OF the contract OF Aprl I,
1857, In which the company was given the
bound 10 enforce the contract. There had been
no qomplaint through the Board, and the at
taoks Of Peter @. MaRinnis, and the United
BtRteB Illuminating GOmDanV hail hnan ranulaaI
In Court, the laws and the contracts sustained.
Commissioner 0ihheuE asked: do you mean
yy;gur company is at fault ths Board may stop
the contracts?
Mr., LauterbAch renlisd that he agreed, but
shat IT was not power vested III the Board to
decide ,whetner tho company had or had not
Violated their contract. and the Board could not
declare the contract imperative. The laws and
she contracts give the Board the authority for