The Portland daily press., 1900-11-27

very dangerous to have allowed them to
turn on their power.
FIRE ALARM SERVICE ALL RIGHT
CITY Electrician Cummings said that
the city fire alarm and police telephone
lines uame through the storm fairly we'll.
OF course there was an immense amount
of damage done but last night, MIR. Cum
mings told the representative OF the
PRESS that nearly sill of the fire alarm
and police circuits were in working order.
The cityis lines are well and firmly con-
structed. In the business district. that IL
in the square bounded by High, Com
meroiaI, Pearl and X snnebec streets, the
city's wires are In the conduits Of the
New England Telephone and Telegraph
company. These conduit lines are not
disturbed by any storms and at all times
this section was all right yesterday.
The crossing of wires on Portland
street yesterday loren DON burnt out three
or four fire alarm boxes on that circuit
and also burnt out the fire alarm whistle
on the Portland Railroad power station.
Besides this there were some fire alarm
tapyers out OF commission last night, but
taxing It all in all the city's lines came
through the storm In fairly good shape.
A day or two will put the whole thing
back into good condition again.
TELEPHONE LINES DAMAGED.
The New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone company suffered a good deal from
Ex..k &,sA - nd
than In its limits. In the district where
the conduit ystem is operated the tele-
phone company had a bsolutely no trouble
an argument for underground conduits
which cannot be answered. or the 1S0U
telephone subscribers In Portland not
more than one hundred instruments were
out of condition last night and the most
OF these were ON the lines on West Com
mercial street ana Cape Elizabeth.
Outside OF the city the telephone CON-
pany had its greatest trouble between
Yarmo 1th and Lewiston where the lines
were all carried away by the falling trees.
A crew OF men worked all day between
Yarmouth and Auburn and did not make
very much progress. The lines from Bid
Portsmouth were in very bad shape. Two
men went out of Biddeford towards San
ford at three O'Clock yesterday morning
and worked ali day cutting down trees
and trimming of limbs which inIerfered
with the wires and only went seven
miles. Two more men went from BIdde-
ford towards Portsmouth but after work
ing all day had only made four miles.
Almost every stretch of wire between
poles had to be relieved of-fallen trees or
limbs OF trees. The trunk line to Boston
was cut OF early In the day. 1t was got
in working order for short time and
then went to pieces again. The telephone
company had one wire working through
to Bangor and another to Lewiston last
night. 1t will cost this company q big
sum to get its lines outside of the city in
TO shape About nifty men will be set to
WORK tonight and will continue to work
ON these lines untiiIthey are put into good
condition. 1t will require fully three
days to repair all the damage done in this
section of the stats to the telephone
wires.
III OEOJ AL 0OI II GRG0 A4AOOs
The Postal Telegraph oompany's line
hetwesn Portland and Brunswick is in
very bad shape, hundreds Of fallen trees
or limbs opstructing the line. The Asso-
clated Press wires which are leased from
this company were working all right be-
tween Portland and Boston last night,
but Augusta was cut of the circuit q
greater part Of the night, it being impos-
sible to get a wire into that place either
from the east or west. Bangor and st.
John papers were given the Associated
Press news by the way OF Montreal and
Quebec, but poor Augusta got very little
news last night from the outside world.
WIRES no WEST ALL RIGHT.
The Western Union through wires to
this west were working ali right, but this