New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-27
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contract with the city to light certain streets on
the East Side north of the Harlem River. He
said that that company had not begun operations
vet. having been engaged In putting IN an en-
tircly new plant during the last month. Little
damage therefore, was done to the wires OF the
company.
The Manhattan and Harlem Electric Light COM
panies are operated under joint management
H. NJ Edwards, the general manager, said that
most Of the system of the two companies was
operated underground I'VE use" said he, the
subways along SiXth-ave. and in Third-avc. as
far as the Harlem River, and in Broadway from
Leonard to Fifty-ninth SITS We have ten over
head wires furnishing current for arc lights and
for about 90 incandescent lamps in First-ave
Very little damage was done to our overhead
wires, ana all that was done was caused by tele-
graph and telephone wires falling upon them. Tie
principal trouble of this kind was at Fourteenth
ST. and First-ave. There is no reason why we
should not run all of our lights tonight, and we
will do so unless receive official notice not 10
do so from the city authorities. We test our wires
every fifteen minutes, and are always on the aeI0
for crosses. -,
The same kind of report was made at the head
ouarters of the Mt. Morris Electric Light COM
pany at Greenwich and Nandam SIS. IL was saiu
that that company had not lost any p0es, anu
that such slight damage as was causeu 10 Vlc
wires by crosses with telegraph ana tcepnohc
wires had been repaired on sunday ana yesterdaS
The companys officers deemed 1t entirely saie 10 re-
sumo public lighting, all foreign wires Iau now
been cleared away, but would not turn on tne
currents until such action was sanctiphed pS 'hc
city authorities ,.e. ,ootric
Eohtinr companies in the city admitted yes'er-
day that q mistake had been made In hos con-.
Melting the companies to build subways OF lheiI
own between the subways owned by the Guy any
The houses where the dynamOs are operated. II
such corporation subways were Duli, ne I'M W.
edged no storm of any severity cOulu pIc'vlI. Va.
main thoroughfares of the city from oe1S the
AS il is there is wide territory between .i1o
houses of all of the companies whelC lhe h
are placed which must necessarily DC hgh'eu y
overhead wires
F1REMEN PATRoLLING THE STREETS.
Nof even the pet blizzard of New-York, which
came on March 10, 1888, caused such udin"7o
and delay to the telegraph, telephone anu ne
alarm systems of the city did the storm oil oaC'
urday night All day Sunday the only comhuni
cation between the headquarters OF the IRE 80 p1
nartment in East SiXty-seventh-st ana the Ndlouo
engine houses and even Police Headquarters. was
by messenger boys. and these had to be sent lol,
as in most cases the Western Union call serNlce
was out of order. = Al, 1yro
i p. Smith, the superintendent of the flre
Department Telegraph Service, has been conIec'Sd
with this service for nineteen wears; any nT
said Ia a Tribune reporter yesterday that III a.,
his long experience he did not remember any
storm which had caused such severe damage 10
the wires in every quarter OF n , SundS S morn
inc Continuing he sad: The damage TO our
alarm and telegraph service has been much Ihe
same in all parts OF the Guy any S;da hec.use
damage is the heaviest on the West Sldei because
of the large number OF poles whlch le,i III ,n,r
district. The highest damage was IN the loWcI
part Of the city, and in this case accentuales 'he
necessity for having all our wires undereron11u
AT the elimination OF the storm yeslen1uaS :.
continued Mr. Smith, AN exceealng small ,ral PAL" IN
working order Altogether, think, IN this bra cp
of the service alone it will REQUIRE SlO,OoO 10
cover all losses. We already have over COUPE
the usual force of eighty men at WORK, ana 1
could put over fifty men more at WORK IN one
minute -, :. ~ ox.r.ro,v hard 70 get
competent llnemen to work. all the companies
we're in great need of experienced men When
asked If the department was paying double wage,
or bounty for good lnemen, ne saiu tnae VI
course the department had TO compete win cor,
porations and must have men, and that was all
he could say on that subject
ORDER NOT QUICKLY RESTORED.
aWe hope to get our system In good working
order about the middle of the week. though this
will in a measure depend upon the energy of other
companies. all of which, public and private, are
helping each other to the best of their ability
Not many of our poles are down, the damage to
our wires being in most cases the result of broken
poles and fallen cross wires
Mr. Smith also said that some circuits were
working better than others, and everything pos
sible being done TO estaDnsh COMMUNICATION
between the various stations.
All day YESTERDAY and last night fremen were
taking the places of the regular fire alarms ana
OF the order Of Chief Bonner the district allotted
30 hook and ladder and engine company was
divided into cheats" which were each patrolled
bv a fireman for four hours. He reported at the
engine-house every half hour and was relieved
T. j. Brady, Superintendent of the Bureau for
the Inspection of Buildings, sent the following
letter to all the building inspectors:
"Some buildings have been injured by the
storm, falling telegraph poles, wires. etc; See II
you can locate them, and report any that may
be unsafe, and if necessary notify the police to
.barricade the sidewalk to prevent accidents
Among those buildings most seriously injured IS
the Van Norman School for Young Ladies, az
West End-ave. and Seventy-first-st The
building is handsome brownstOne front house
of four stories and early in the morning OF the
storm high heavy pole broke short of. and IN
falling knocked down chimney. broke III the
roof, and also damaged the wall, The crash
startled number of young ladies' who are board
inc i'm the school, and for a few moments panic
was threatened, but the teachers preserved ORDER
and when il was found that their lives were nor
in danger the girls seemed rather TO enjoy the
No 200 East Forty-fourth-st. Is a rather small
two-story brick house, and Yesterday the police
ordered all the tenants to leave everything ana
cot ont as there was great danger that al any
minute the whole house might be crushed by The
fall of pole which lowered above 1t TO the
height of seven or eight stories and was totter-
ing with the weight upon It, he tenants VINO
had to leave everything though not without much
urging on the part Of the police. were NJ short
nicture frame and furniture glider Quong Wing.
Ianndryman: Vito Giglil, barber: G. X Jones.
printer and J. McIIugh, boarding house keeper:
The firemen late in the day succeeded IN saving
The house and the tenants were allowed to go
back.
THE POLICE BADLY HAMPERED
The police yesterday reported no further damage
nv the storm of Sunday. Nearly all of the police
telegraph wires were out of order early In the
day. and linemen were kept at work all day long
,epairing the broken wires and establishing con-
nections between Headquarters and the stations
In the afternoon Inspector Byrnes could hold COM
municaion with all of the stations in the city below
Ffty-ninth-st over the regular police lines From
the other stations messengers carried all OF the
: tenorts which were received az the Central Office