Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-10-17

The Electric Light Companies Turn
orr The Currents.

New YoRK, Oct 15.--The sudden deter
mlnation OF the Brush and United States
companies yesterday to smut oil the city
circuits plunged d large section of the city
I Into darkness last night. In Madison
Rlquure ind Union square parks, around
which tho life OF the city clusters at night,
almost impenetrable gloom reigned. City
| hall Park wore an unwonted appearance.
| The outlines of the great buildings located
there we're barely distinguishable, and the
clock on the city hall seemed like q great
1 disk of light with no apparent support. On
the Bowery, where almOs every storekGeper
has an electric light burning all night, the
scene was especially dismal.
4 one big store had one solitary candle In
the window with card bearing this
4 lenend "There's no electric light, but we
i sill live" On Third avenue up to Eighty
ninth street, where the Mount Morris Com
! pany's lamps begin, the effect was oven
4 more pronounced the elevated structure
contributing to the funereRl aspect. 10
i some stores oil lamps, candles and even
/ Chinese lanterns were called In to play.
\ In places here md there lights on what are
known as Commercial circuits" gllm-
| mased. The rain added to the general dis
comfort, md strong wind pierced the
marrow Of the way-iarer.
District Attorney Fellows had n ccnsulta-
tlon yastetdaY with Mayor Grant. relative
to electric wires In general and the death
Of LinemAn Feess ia particular. Colonel
Fellows assured tbs mayor that IL the line
wnick killed Eoes5 TeEe discovered In.
dlctments would i3iicw.
There was iiTely meeting OF the boArd
of electrical coplr2l yesterday. Mayor
Grants proposition 10 nnTogate tho con-
tract With the Consolidated Subway Com
panY Oh account % It's uereiiction In plac-
Ing the wires underground was not favored
by the other members OF the board, who
held that the work vas being pushed Us
rapidly as WAS feasible.
Inspector Roth and sang OF 20 men
went to work ut an early hour yesterday
morning TO cut down al badly Insulated
electric light wires found on Dowory be.
tween Cooper Insfi;utsaa Chatham square
not belonging to the Brush or United States
Illuminating Company. which arc pro.
tected by Injunction. They were preceded
by liueman employed by the companies
who enteavored to save all the wire they
could from destruction by wrapping the
bare spots with Insulating tape. The Noun
Morris Electric Light Company got out al
Injunction.
Tho Board Of Health promises to Join the
mayor IN his crusade against the deadly
overhead wires 10y means Of the act o.
1882, which provides that no preliminary
iujunGtion shall be granted against thai
board except by the supreme court at @
special or general term after eight days
service of notice OF motion. The plan Of
the president OF the Health Board Is to de-
clare the wires public nuisance and be
fore being hamp red by Il preliminary In
junction TO proceed ut oace to remove them
The application Of the Western Unior
Telegraph Company and the metropolitan
Telephone Company TO have their lniunc
tons renewed restraining tho Board o.
Electrical Control from interfering with
their wires We're denied by Judge Ingrahau
yesterday.
Judge Andrews had determined to si
until midnight, II necessary, to hear argu
ment upon the other electric light compan
les lnjunctiOns. but Joseph II Choate repre-
eenting the United States and Brush Com
panies, stated that his clients had tunnel
on their currents, and proposed to keel
them shut off until the matter before tn,
court was disposed OF. The case was ad
journed until to-day.