The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-01


 voltage of no. Many of the wires wer so exposed that If they got loose iron their fastenings and fell where peopl walked some one would be surel. killed I warned people about thes wires, and I did my best to keep then firmly in place, but they should hav' been buried.
 "One day I received a complain notice that one of the main feed wire was out of order and needed immediate attention. No one knew where tn, trouble was, and I spent an hour locat ing it. At last found it in a stretch Of wire running through a seni-publit | hallway. In order to work freely ant to get the trouble remedied as soon as possible 1 put danger sign at eacl end of the hallway, and then took the wire down from it's fastenings. l was working of course, with such tools as made it impossible for the wire to hur1 me unless I was very careless.
 T had been at work, I guess, flfteer minutes when woman spoke to me looked up, and there, close to me, stood a woman about 40 years of age. She | had brushed by the danger sign with out paying any attention to 1t. Of course, being woman, that was all | that could be expected of her. She was almost on top of the red-hot sizzling live wire, and my heart jumped into my stomach. Madam, I, almost yelled get out of here and keep close to the left wall when you get out.
 Young man., said she, I'm not go- ing out here until I find Henry Brown. Where is hep
 Henry Brown, but you're standing over lightning and death this minute and you get out Of here.
 You are impudent' said she.
 I'm not said I, but for heavens sake go somewhere else and find Henry Brown.S
 |" Young man. said she, I'll stay here all night if you don't find Henry Brown for me-
 Well there I was; had that wire in hand and an obstinate old woman standing over me, andt didn't know what minute she might get hold of that wire. I thought very quick and then he said to her: If you go out into the other hall and wait there five minutes until I get done with this wire Ill see if I can find Henry Brown for you
 This seemed to satisfy her and she started for the hall, while I resumed my work I did not look at her, but 1t appears that she was about half way out of my hall when she noticed this electric wire, and deliberately stopped and picked 1t up In her hand. I did not even know that she had done this until I suddenly heard her say:
 My 1t tickles me
 II looked up, and there that old lady stood fooling with that wire and sml- hands. l couldn't yell at her. Why she didn't instantly drop dead I don't know and never will know, I tried to scream but something stuck in my throat and could only gasp and look at her. Finally she dropped the wire and walked into the other hall. An instant later she called to me:
 Young man, I've got black lines on my hand from your dirty old wire T Just showed the wire up into it's regualr position, wher 1t could harm no one let it alone, and I went out into the other hall and said to the old lady: Do you know that you ought to be dead this minute N
 "'No more of your impudence, young man said she. You just look at my hands and remember that I am go- ing to sue your company for damages ''She held up the palms of both her hands, and the wire had burned the skin so quick and so sure as to leave three or four black lines that looked like dirt marks, I said to the woman That is not - dirt, madam. You have been burned by an electric wire having 800 voltage, and those marks are dead skin. You will probably carry them as long as you live. Didn't the wire hurt your Didn't hurt me bit she said, be- ginning to look little scared. It just made me feel as if somebody was tick ling me. I don't know live wire from a dead ona. T took her down to the office of the | and they found Henry Brown l for her and it's seems that he was her | nephew. She told him about her ex- perience with the wire and he looked | mgnty trouDleu, BeIore she went l away I thought to ask her
 |" Do you wear rubber heels madam?' | You young sass box said she. T | suppose you would like to look. No, I | don't wear rubber heels nor iron heels I have often wondered since what | protected that woman for being killed | at that time. ."-Chicago Record Herald.
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