New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-19
ARE THE DUCTS USELESS
THE WIRES CONE DOWN SLOWLY.
THE MAYOR ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE BoAau
OF Er.EcTRICAI. CONTROL.

THE MAYOR ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE BoA3u
OF EIEcTRIoAL CONTROL
Most Of the spare chairs In the Mayors ONCE wers
occupied yesterday by an interested company Of
spectators attracted by the first meeting Of the Board
of Electrical Control under the new administration.
There were present Mayor Grant, President Hess and
Commissioners Gibbons and Moss. After the reading
of the minutes Of the last meeting Mr.. Hess offered
his resignation Al president which accepted. and
Of thanks passsd In recognition Of his SER
vices in that position On motion of Mr.. Hess Mayor
Grant was then elected president OF the Board
The annual report OF the engineer Of the board was
read and placed on Ole. The Brush Electric Lighting
Company asked for permission to transfer its wires
from the east side Of Avenue A, between Essex and
Twenty third ss, to the unused poles of the Western
Union Company on tho west side Of the avenue.
Mayor Grant opposed the request. He thought that
SO long as companies allowed 10 dead poles
TO string wires upon, there would never DO any1
thing accomplished in getting rid of the poles. The
permission was denied. A number Of appIIcatons,M
put up new poles In Thrd-ave. were laid over.
report from the Subway Construction Company says
that 22s $40 feet of duct had constructed foe
telegraph and telephone wires in about forty miles
of trench that the Metropolitan Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company had, January 1, 4,o62.3s miles OF
electrical conductors In the subways; the western
Union Company, 1905 miles; the Brush Electric
Lighting Company, 6.87 miles; the Edison Company
le223 miles, ana the NeW-fOrk City f1re Ieieef1Pu,
10102 The company had built GA manholes, $50
distribution boxes and thirty-two flush boxes. The
report further says that there is complete route for
telegraph and telephone service through Broadway,
from the Battery TO Fifty-eighhst also by way Of
Church-st., College Place, West Broadway, South
FIfthave. and Sxth-ave. For electric light service
subways in operation from Fourteenth to Fifty
eighth SITS. Broadway, and from Eighteenth to
Fftyeighth sts sxthave besides on several cross
town streets.
The Mayor laid before the Board letter from tbs
counsel of the United States Illuminating Company
asserting that the subways insufficient for electric
lighting purposes that the companies who have been
obliged place their wires in the subways had been
unable to get any circuit through or use the same,
and that the tests show that the electric current
cannot be carried through The Board was asked there
fore to await the result OF the court proceedings
brought against the company, and the latter VIII
agree ~ lay an experimental cable possible
to test the availability of the system. Mr. Gibbons
pronounced the Of the letter regarding the
subways unfounded. He said that the Harlem
Electric Company using the subway In One
hundred and twenty fth-st with success. He oherod
resolution giving notice to all electric companies thas
the subways ready for and requesting them 10
Inform tho Board of the number OF their wires, Dcth
overhead and underground. After discussion, inc
resolution was laid TO give Mayor Grant time 20
acouant himself with the facts rccited therein and
the United states Illuminating Company received pers
mission to lay the experimental cable as requSstco.