New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-27
WORST IN NEW-JERSEY.


WORST IN NEw-JERSEY.
In New-Jersey,
:" mat Is your estimate OF the damage?'
our general manager Mr.. Eckert, who has
entire charge Of such matters-I have nothing ID
do with them-told me this morning that he
Thought $4,000 would cover the loss Part Of
that comes from the suspension of business,
When do you expect to have everything ii
working order?"
In day or two. We have, unquestionably,
the hnest organization in the world When Mr.
EcKeft ana Mr. liumstOne reached the Office YES.
terday morning not wire was working They
could communicate with nobody They got To.
gether their lieutenants and sent them out 20 hins
linemen telling them to pay S5 day il neces.
sary, but the ieutenants came back late in tho
day with the statement that they couldnV
hire anybody at s.. because the Metro
politan Telephone Company was paying
$40. This morning sixty experienced linemen
arrived from the West and they are now at work
with 200 or 300 helpers Nobody told them to
come. We certainly did not, because we could
not communicate with them, having no wires.
But 1t is only part of the system. Men do not
wait to be told where to go, but as soon as they
hear OF trouble hasten 10 :he scene"
Late last night A. +. Sink, night manager Of
the Western Union main office in this city, made
statement as to the gain made in their facilities
by the company since Sunday. I'VE have now,n
said Mr.. Sink, fifteen wires West, which is a
gain Of twelve wires since last night. These
West wires leave New-YOrll through Harlem to
Albany, Buffalo and on TO Chicago From Chi.
cago matter is distributed to all points
South and West. We are working two Wheat
stone circuits over the West wires, carryiny about
500 messages per hour.
At Albany and Buffalo matter is sent East
without difficulty, as there are plenty of wires
from those cities Eastward We are also working
over two direct wires to Boston and the East via
New-IIaven.
We have not wire direct South yet, but
we are reaching Philadelphia, Baltimore and WASH
ingtOn and the South generally by way Of the
West.
If we have no failures in circuits already re.
stored and now working, we expect 10 clear away
before morning the business now on hand. As
to the relative amount of business on hand Sunday
night at this hour and that now on hand there is
little difference but it must be remembered THAI
Mondays business in volume exceeds that Of Sun-
day by about eight or nine times. So, though
we have gained in wires, we have about as much
accepted business on hand now as on Sunday night
at 10 o'clock
our ClDIc UuSlUcsS ID III hioCOlaoo ouePS, "AS
we are taking all cable matter offered
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH CRIPPLED.
Up to yesterday morning the service OF the
Postal Telegraph Company had been brought ID
a simple deadlock and, so far as this company
was concerned. New-York was practically dead
TO the world At ) o'clock yesterday afternoon
the company, according TO George ii. Osher, gen.
eral manager of the NcwlO office, had succeeded
in making connection with Albany, Montreal, Bos-
ton ard Buffalo.
"We are still entirely cut of from the s>utn,
said Mr. Usher although we have es'a "a our
connection as far as Morristown, \. j., and hope
70 reach Philadelphia early tomorrow Mofhils'
some idea of the damage done 10 rs can ne esti'
mated by the following figures ofdlnarly We
have sixteen wires to Boston. now we are running
only one we are now bercft OF nine out oi uut
ton Albany wires. and the same condition appues
70 Bnffalo With Chicago and the west geneiany
we are accustomed TO have thirteen Wires, as
against one now in use. | cannot al tlls momen'
saw how many men are at work on our repals,
hnt we have secured all possible help. ana theie
s little doubt that we shall soon be all IlSno
again"
F1,rCTR1C LIGHTS READY TO BURN.
The officers of the electric lighting companies
using overhead wires UNANIMOUSLY declared yes
terday that their plants were in perfect worNlns
order that they suffered little damage except
such as was caused by telephone and telegraph
wires falling upon them. and that were II not ior
the presence of such foreign wires crossing their
lines they could resume operations wlth entre
safety 10 life and property. The Edison Illum'-
Mating Company was the only one which had a
pcrfcctly clean report to make. K X. BowKcr.
first. vlce-presilent of that company, said that
not single lamp furnished by the Edison service
had been affected by the storm.
"Our service" said he is entirely UNDER
Ground. We have no overhead wires to he AZ
fectcl bv such n storm, and not one OF our llghtS
failed 10 burn on Sunday night. IL was not nea's-
sory for us To send ont even single workman
10 make repairs There was no interruption OF
any kind to the Edison service"
The Brush and United States Electric Illuminat-
inc COMPANIES are the ones with Which the Board
Of Electrical Control had 50 much trouble wheh
the attcmpt was first made to compel all oi uhe
companies To bury their wires. They are now
on.r,tod under tire same management. A. r..
Secular the superintendent of the combined sys-
tenn. said Yesterday that the damage 10 the Brush
and United states companies would not exceed
$500 at tie outsiGc Nearly every bit Of the
DAMAGE to our SYSTEM" he said. was caused by
f,rci.-n wires falling over ours We lost but one
mole that AT the corner OF Broadway and Thirty
ninth-,t. which held a lamp supplied with cur
rent from the subway 1t was mol a suppou
pole and it broken off by Western nion
nole falling against it. We sent out a gang Of
men early on Sunday morning TO cut away the
TELEGRAPH and telephone wires which hung over
our, from poles and housc-tops, and by night our
entire plant WAS clear. We could have operated
our system with entire safety on Sunday night
had it not been for foreign wires dropping on our
lines"
Mr.. Secular Yesterday, when he received tho
lett,r from Mr. Gilroy, tue Commissioner of Pub
lie Works forbiddng him 10 turn the electric
current into his circuits, sent reply to the Com
missioner informing him that only few OF the
wros of the Brush and United States companies
had in any way been affected by the storm, and