Evening star., 1896-09-30
give more definite Information as to the
prospects when return"
The Postal Telegraph Company.

The Postal Telegraph Company.
Mr.. Allen, manager Of the Postal Tele-
graph Company. told practically the same
story concerning the condition Of that
service. '"rhe wires being gone in all di-
rections." he said, Il am unable, of course.
to tell the full extent Of the. damage to
our system. 1t all depends upon the swath
extent Of territory embraced in Its limits
the greater the damage We are COM
pletely shut in Just now. but I have reason
to expect that we will get an outlet today,
at least as far as Baltimore.
II can't tell anything about the damage
until hear from the gangs Of linemen who
started out early this morning for the res
turation Of the service In all directions
aged, but none to a very great extent. We
confidently expect to have them all In good
working order before very long,"
The Telephone Service.
Mr.. 8. M. Bryan, president Of the Chesa-
Peake and Potomac Telephone Company
was seen Just after he had returned from q
personal inspection Of the principal points
of damage to that service. I'VE have just
finished a preliminary survey of the physi-
cal aspects of the damage to our system
in this CITY," said he, land find only one
point that will require much time to repair
That Is along B street north from 9Th to
10th streets. where the service was COM
pletely wrecked.
Ten seventy-foot poles carrying a hun.
dred wires, arc down and will take some
time to repair inasmuch as new poles will
have to be erected and each wire entire
ly reset. The next most serious damage
to our service occurred on the Georgetown
route in the vicinity of 29th and o streets,
where several tall poles. carrying about
100 wires each. were blown down and rem
dered us eless. All of our connections. out
side of tie city are completely cut off, but
we expect to have Baltimore during the
day, ard you may depend upon 1t that we
will effect that connection before either of
the telegraph companies We are now d.
recting our entire efforts to the repair of
the general damage to the heavy lines. as
in the best interests of our patrons gen.
orally, and when that is done, but not be-
fore, we will give attention to individual
connections.
'sIf we have no bad luck we will have
nearly all the lines working before the
close Of the week. but there may be unex-
pected things to prevent. We are wo,Sing
our full force Of repair men day and = ght-
so far as they can stand 1t, In order that
the entire service may be restored in good
working order as soon as possible. Until
we can get the necessary power from the
Electric Light Power Company, so as to
establish connec tons with the underground
system. 1t will be impossible to test the va
rious lines to determine their condition.
Until these tests are made 1t will be i'm
possible to determine the full extent of the
damage. AS 1t is, only about one-half Of
the regular city service Is in operation to-
day.
while a large number OF our poles are
partly down, many of them are supported
by the wires in such way that they can
easily be restored to the proper condition.
AS have already said. it Is our purpose
to repair general damages first, and then
take up the cases Of single wires. The
service sustained the most serious damage
in it's history by last nights storm, and
repairs will cost thousands of dollars.
don't think the city ever had such a storm
The damage was general all over tie city
ard can hardly be estimated at present"