The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-25
IN The ELECTRICAL woRln

arrangements are being made to.
put in telephone line from Mexico 70
Santa Fe. Mo.
Telegraph Co is constructing a new
line between Westfield, Mass. and the
Lee exchange. The new line viii con-
meet with the hill towns. and hereafter
the latter will be given a long distance
service.
The problem OF getting the wires
under ground in cities of any size is
/ difficult, the main bed of the roadways
being usually Preempted by mass OF
| pipes for water. gas. sewage, etc In
some parts of Europe the conductors
have been placed under sidewalks, and
| in one or two places a compromise has
/ been adopted of running them fiat
/ against the walls of houses, above the
first floor. An ingenious plan has late
I " been introduced in this country of
/ employing combination curb and con-
duit. The trench follows the curb
/ line, and the conduit simply takes the
place of the old curbing. Drainage is
easily provided for. There are many
I incidental advantages. it would seem.
the arrangement being cheap TO con-
struct and maintain. leaving the road
bed quite undisturbed and affOrding an
easy access with the adjacent houses
or stores.
"A hint for ambitious communities
DESTROYS of annexing suburbs reluctant
10 come in may be found in the propO-
sition seriously made, and actually
adopted, though afterward rescinded,
by the city council of Harrisburg. Pa
| The resolution was to the effect that
the arc lights should be shaded on the
side toward certain suburbs voting
against consolidation and thus eseap-
ing the burden of city taxation In
the state of New York. not long ago,
the authorities of village refused to
pay for more than half the light of an
arc lamp, on the ground that the other
half of the light fell upon territory be-
yond their baliwick. They ordered
the pole moved so that none of the
beams should be wasted across the
line. but a public spirited eitizen
across the border agreed to pay for
half of the light if the pole was allow
ed to stay in its position. This curious
agreement was lived up to for several
years
DR.. p. ]. Gibbons. Of Syracuse, Y.
Y, WHIP recently applied to Gov.
Flower for permission to use his APP
paratus for resuscitating a murderer
executed by electricity in Auburn
prison (but which was refused), has in
vented an apparatus what has hereto
fore been produced by physical exer-
ton and manipulation. DIR. Gibbons
apparatus consists of a pair of hand
bellows. whose handles are connected
together. At the mouth of each bel
/ lows is fastened a flexible tube, and
these two tubes are connected by a
Y junction. terminating in a single
tube. The end of the tube is inserted in
/ the mouth of the patient, or. if this be
closed in an opening made in the
/ throat The patients nose is closed
and when the handle of the bellows
/ is raised the air rushes from the
/ patients lungs into one apartment of
the bellows. simultaneously the other
apartment is filed with fresh air
/ through a tube on the reverse side
| This air is forced into the lungs by the
compression of the handles. Dr. Glib
/ bons says a large percentage of deaths
from electricity are not instantaneous,
and could be averted by using his in
vention-