Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-23

The telephone company is still in a
badly crippled condition. A large force
of lnemen were sent out in every direc-
ton Tuesday morning, but up to Tues
day, nothing had been heard from
majority of them.
A good portion Of the day was given
up to getting the dead wires out Of the
street, and clear of other wires, where
they had been crossed in falling.
The regular morning test showed that
over 100 lines were out of service, which
means the crippling Of from 400 to 500
subscribers. Twenty-Five Of these lines
were repaired, in addition to the other
work done, and the work is being vigor-
ously pushed in all directions. The out
of-town service remains practically the
same as on Monday.
Men have been at work where the
poles are down at Greendale, and have
succeeded in fixing up some of the lines
in this locality temporarily A gang
Of linemen from Springfield are located
at Spencer, and will begin working to-
ward this city Wednesday morning,
while another force will start from this
end with two ciGcuits, which will be
run through to Springfield. No at
tempt will be made to reconstruct the
pole line The wires will be run along
the stumps of the poles, trees. etc.-any
way so as to establish communication
with the points cut off at the present
time.
Little can be learned regarding the
break on the Massachusetts Central, be-
yond the fact that the wires are in bad
shape A large force of men are at
work, and Tuesday night 10 pairs out
of 20 running along this line were work.
ing.
Joseph Mcdonald of Lowell, an en-
ployee of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company, fell from a
pole on Quinsigamond avenue Tuesday
morning and dislocated his left ankle.
He was coming down the pole when his
spur failed to hold in the rotten wood,
and he fell to the ground, distance OF
25 feet. He was taken to the city hos
pital in the police ambulance.
Lawrence J..Shay wire chief of the
Providence exchange, was in town Tues
day on a short vacation, and incidental
ly to look after the interests of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company Mr.. Shay put in the day at
West Boylston, where one of the Ameri-
can Company's poles was broken down,
and succeeded in Strengthening this
company's wires out to a considerable
extent.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany sent out a large force of linemen
by special train from Boston, Tuesday
morning, and about $50 men are at
work. The wires along the Boston and
Albany Railroad, through Spencer and
Charlton, are the ones principally af-
fected Four wires were got through
Tuesday afternoon.
The Postal reports some trouble, and
has force of men at work getting
things in shape once more.
The Consolidated Street Railway is
running regular trips on all its lines.
The South Worcester cars were out of
service for time Tuesday morning, on
account of the fact that this line de-
pends on the Leicester power from Mad
ison to Hammond street; but during the
forenoon this difficulty was remedied,
and the cars began running regularly
once more.
The electric light company expert
enced some inconvenience from the
storm and a good portion of the early
part Of the day was taken up in
straightening out their lines The prin-
cipal damage is said to have been
caused by the limbs of trees that fell
across the wires and to other lines that
fell across the light circuits.
Tuesday evening when the street
lights were turned on, Superintendent
Coughlin said all the circuits were
working in good shape in spite of fears
to the contrary
The suburban roads are running reg