The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-14
Company Ia Ready to Place lts
Underground Conduits.
HOW THE WORK is TO BE DONE.


TIE details OF the plans o, the Sunset
Telephone ard Teiexrsph Company for tn@
abolition % tie unsigh5ly system OF aerial
csbges now ss use in Seattle. and the s1ls-
ststutton OF a system o. underground cor
auitz for carrying the thousands Of teie-
phone wires frcsn ali paris Of the city 20
the cor1paEy's proposed rev central Office
nuslalsg on Third avenue. near Seneca
street. have now been fury arranged. and
IN less than ten days the work u pacing
tie wires underground vii b. begun.
Superintendent Of Construction +. b
Brown, VINO has charge OF the work Is row
in the city. and has MADE complete ar
rangemen.s fer everything. ard Only the
formal ratification Of 1he eompapy's plans
By the city council IL now wanting. TIE
underground cattle ayeiem Itself wln cost
not less than Secs. ana SIS Installation
will employ about tfty men fer eight
months. Ground has been broken for the
new building. and IL viii probably he
completed by thas time. f. viii cost from
sls. SO 70 IS 90. exclusive Of the new APP
parstus Altogether not far from sso.H0
will have been expended when the whole
work IL completed and the telephone sys-
tenn OF Seattle placed on par with that
Of San Francisco ard other large cities.
Map of the system.
The map % the underground system
shows that the main conduit win be latd
en- Third avenue from the south margin
81 Pike strees 90 Yssisr way. with sHai.er
esnduiis diverglng al University. Spring
and Marion streeta. running west TO Rail-
raad avenue. and a. Madison street run
mag east 10 Teagh avenue Is Yeslsr way
the condus will fork. ere branch Running
west TO Fsgth aveuue south. and south On
that Avenue 10 jackson street. and Ire
other running aown YesIer Way To wes,-
srm avenue. THIS arraHEe pent ef th. con-
Quits sill cover the entire business por-
ton Of the city and entirely do away with
overhead cables ar lads
The eonduits wlt not as many have sup
poesd. be merely large clay or concrete
pipes THAT system Eas been tried and
found aiuaost worthless Mr nrown says
tue clay or concrete being q conduetor OF
olecgfiety aaa allowing the current Lost
from stfeet RAILWAY ard power pants 10
ruiz tae insulated 81 the cables IN 40
time. On the contrary. the eeniiiits will
ennSs, OF VARYING numbers % small wooi
fiber pipes slfee iacles In diameter. each
carrying enc cable, and laid in bundles IN
solid concrete The .tasnts OF the small
pipes viii be surh thai both the inside
ard outside 81 the pipes wilt be absolute
IS smooth, and render L Impossible for the
cable to become f3uled.
Pipes an uaadics
Leaving the central station the e,ndn9.
north 90 Pike street will consist Of twenty
six of these small, fiber pipes. and going
south OF thirty ak rs far as Spring street.
whtre four viii be- he'd west 4, Madison
street ten mere will be diverted. running
east to Tenth avenue. At Marion street
fatr more will leave the main. running
west and a. Cherry street cI-nt The re-
manning ten pipes viii continue down
Third avenue "a yesier way where one
half of t1em Will so Down the avenue and
the others up - Fifth avenue south. where
one viii be dropped. and tho remaining
three pipes continued down 10 ia kson.
Al The Intersection 81 each s9rest there
VIII be uanhole. thcsp on the principal
crossings being tx feet, and elsewhere
sxS. built OF solid brick masonry. archeti
over ana protected by cast iron sever.
weighing from .en9 IL l. 500 pounds TIE
system Will practically laat forever as the
almost 10 store. and absolutely protects
the exterior % the llttle nher plpes.fr from
air and moisture.
Through saca Of these small fiber ripas
block by black hy an Ingenious apparatus
this iead-tuyered cables VIII b drawn
Each eshlc Will Be what $ called a 10
pair "a his containing a@9 separate wires
insulated WITH seft paper ani hound into
grm bundle. Each pair % these wires
constitutes she circuit FOR ena .elepaone.
the insulation OF one wire he4n& eo;ored rrd
and that OF the ether sef' white. So that
they may be readily spicea when two sec
tioas o. she cable are formed Th,S sp.ic.
lug Will Re don. as the cables are laid at
the manhoIes, there being Sullleicri -nom
sn each for two men 20 work comfortably
In HusIacs~ Districts.
In The business districts cables viii 80
run underground sram tae condulis-to each