The sun., 1890-07-20
MORE WIRES GOT TO WORK.
TESTERN UNION CLEARS THE FIFTH
FLOOR ron OPERATORS.

The Ausocisted Press VIII re Put In Or
the Fourth Floor In Few Dnys-A
BuHy bay at MeudinE and Cleaning u
The Western Union Telegraph Company hat
q gang OF Its own men and $50 carpenters
plumbers and other artisans working nll day
yesterday to got the partly burned and a.!
deluged ten-story building into condition III
for service again The only floor which was nj
all restored was the basement, whore are the
quarters Of the public message receiving md
delivery department. The ifth floor previously
devoted to the auditor and his staff was cleared
OF thoir records and books and preparations
were begun 10 turn tho whole floor over to the
telegraph operators. A switchboard aud other
apparatus and several hundred tables will be
put In and, whom this room 10 ready-which
will bo within a few days all the work will be
done there that used to be done on the seventh
foor. Meanwhile the auditing ioroo will
occupy floor In the Park Bank building. They
vent over there yesterday.
Tho Associated Press did most OF its busl-
Eess yesterday in Jersey City. Some was at
tended to Mt 1G Broad street, this city. Messen-
gers carried cory to and from the Jersey City
temporary quarters on every Cortlandt street
forryboht. PERHAPS tomorrow, and almost
certainly by Tuesday, the Associated Press
will be settled at 1876 Broadway. in three rooms
on the fourth floor
Besides the fofco working at the damaged
parts Of tho Western Union building, several
squads OF climbers we're busy making changes
on lines running into tho city, so as to connect
at The temporary offices the wires from the
South with those from the West md other
points. Hitherto those connections have been
obtained through i05 Broadway. For the
present this connecting service will bO done
chiefly through tho switchboard at 4i5 Broad
way At that substitute ofIlco yesterday they
had communication with Albany. Buffalo.
Chicago. Boston, Hartford, and other places
near those towns. To send to Philadelphia
to have q boy 90 over to Jersey City, By to-
morrow they expect to have more facilities for
e. and in a ,SS SSys for GSs
40 one ut 1875 Broadway knew Just what will
spoiled everything. The wal Is and floors seom
ssolid, IHt i may be found that the Intense
stories SO rs TO necessitate replacing It. On
those floors the majority OF the Western Y MON
ns 81 o ffSs fSs
elevators ran only to the fifth floor and from
there two narrow turning starways led 70 tho
wore no o. g escapes. and though these stair:
cases wero Considered amply sufficient for all
the experience OF Friday proved how in
adequate they were. In fact. all the up-stars
employees were tOnEfatuluLlnR tnem60lN0S
yesterday that tho fire came in q slack time
1t is quite likely that the entire upper part Of
the structure will be remodeled. In that
event II may he more than two months before
the work is finished
Tho initial 10: 5 will lie much less than the
secondary losses az various kinds. Ono ssti-
mate IS tnIt tho company has lost $4,000 q
day f"r two days by not being able to take
messages, The CO.! Of fitting UP Distributing
quarters for Tho time being at the various
branches will be n large item. and the chang |
ing OF wires around the city will be another. |
Then the iehuiding or reitting OF the top part |
OF lyj broadway viii cost q good deal. 80 that |
OH tho whole tho fire was more expensive than |
the officers were nj lIrst inclined to make it,
Some o. tie typswriting machine companies |
Put on exhibit on mt their offices yesterday !
some OF their instruments taken from tho ,
ruin One that Was shown on Park place had !
lot EN- taitereL. but Its steel and iron and |
brass parts wei 0 rusted heavily. and hundreds |
Of people stoppsd to look at It
AS II va. II half holiday and midsummer in |
W all street and on the commercial exchanges, |
II tie or no Inconvenience was experienced |
yesterday from tho interruption OF quick and
re Gular Geographic CON mmunication. The Lon
d n cables were promptly delivered. and these
s!Iisllrd 'he lonRings OF tho Stock Exchange.
The Cotton Exchange received little or no
nows from the South, and the Produce Ex-
change was behind in its Western messages
But 1t was q two hour session on all tho en-
changes. and nobody seemed 10 iret much.