The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-02

UNDERGROUND SYSTEM rrrEpHoNE COMPANY IS LAY
 ING ITS WIRES. Fifty Laborers are at Work ana 'oo ts Being Pushed-Handsome
 oAace Building on Wash
 ington Street. =

.,.r,srt. under way and in con- ..,,ria tion by the Southern Bell ieio rhone Company in Montgomery nnn
 entail an expenditure of about sio'ovo. 1,ns company is putting It's wires UT dcr ground in the business district anu
 ,ians are perfecting for a hanoson.o office building W iich will DC cons.
 ed this fall on Washington Streel.
 Under a city ordinance the telepnone company here began the work oI p,a, ing its wires underground seVeral ne ssrths ago hut owing to bad weather
 .hs ,vork was stopped. Tuesday or tnls
 week the work was begun agaln unoer
 ths auneryision of MT. G. H. Cole or
 Atlanta. a representative of the Ensl-
 neering Department of the Bell Coih-
 pany. .,.+ the un-
 aaroroupd radius shall be as FOLLOWS.
 Reeinning at Court and Lee Strsets
 down to Tallapoosa, thence oy Iaha
 poosa to North Court, by Court to Mau
 ison Avenue, thence to Lawrence Stress and by Lawrence to Adams, tnTousA Adams to Court at the point ol oe
 ginning. .,,,,,o,,ea in nlacina the wires underground. Iney began work on Madison Avenue ana Court street and have the condults as far AS Court Square on Court street, The pavement Is taken up ana oltcn
 two feet wide and two to four feet deep is dug according to the grace or the street. Creosoted ducts are lald III these ditches. A duct is piece or wood through which hole ls bored ,lengthwise for the ac- commodation of the wires. from two to fen ducts will be laid on each street according to the number of wires de- sired From 12O to 400 wires laid in- eide of a cable will be stretched through these ducts. Mr. Cole says that he estimates that 1t will require 150 miles of wire to comnlete the work of undergrounding inc system in the district heretofore mentioned. This work will cost the company about $50,o00 and it IS ex- pected that the job will be finished Tn about two months unless bad weather interferes
 When the wires have been placed under the ground, MT. Cole says there will be two complete lines or tel ephone wires within the district. This is due to the fact that the company cannot discontinue it's service and the underground system is conetrncteC eh- tirely independent of :he pole mes The terminal pole for the undergrouno system will be located on Washington Street near Perry, in front or the pro posed new building of the telephone company and MT. Cole says the system can be transferred from the poies sC the underground Wlres "i''-
 tWinkling of an eye.
 While laying the ducts for the un- daroround system the company Is lay inp one extra duct to be used by the city for it's police and fire alarm Wires
 The advantage to the city in haVlng
 tbe wires underground IS manifest. It rids the business district Of so many noIe. and overhead wires which are m the way in case of fire and serlousS hampers firemen in their work.
 MT. D. c. Sims, Superintendent "l sne Southern Bell Company saio sSs.el "a , , that the plans for the new puiIotns us,o, lI
 Sa constructed on Washington Stree' have heen drawn and are now m the Txecutive offices in New York City TOT th, ,nsnection of the officials Of the "nynnanv. While MT. Sims has no' seen the plans he says that the uliu- ,nw will have a frontage of forty teet. ana will he three stories high. It wiil | he built of brick and stone ana Wili | h. fitted with the most modern con veniences. The company proposes Ut | occupy the entire building. The Ioca
 exchange will be on me tn!ru iiop' u
 inc long distance department will O+
 nm inc second floor and the offices oi
 the company, including the superin n,
 tcnaent and the Local Manager VIII o'
 on the ground floor. ,osod
 The company has already purGnaseo
 ,bn hi on Washington Street but ow' Ing to the fact that the property | leased until October lst the WorA .i ol inc new building will not begin uil'i