The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-06-29
kenosha Gas and Electric Co.
Takes Steps to Safeguard All
Electric and Guy Wires.
WILL ELIMINATE ALL DANGER
Guy Wires Will be Protected by
Wooden Boxes, Pulleys Connected
With Lamps Will be Raised and
Wires Will be Insulated.

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of the Kenosha Gas and Electric
company started work this morning
to revise the system of insulation
used on the different lines of the COM
pany in.the.city, and it is the purpose
OF the company to eliminate to the
highest possible degree the element of
danger inIthe operation OF the differ
ent lightingIandspower systems. The
managers ofHthe company have not as
yet meti with the special committee
appointeda4 by the common council,
but the agentsEof the company have
been sent to otherscities to study new
and bettersaplans Efor insulation of
wires, and it is thought that the sys-
tenn now being installed will make ac-
cidents fromslive wires practically an
impossibility.
The new plan of i@@insu1ation pro-
vides for an overhau1ing of the lines
en- every systemsoperated by the COM
pany. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will be
made Of every wire, whether circuit
or feed wire, Sand if any insulation
has been destroyed it will be renewed
or new wires stretched. New instru-
ments of the. most modern pattern
will be set up at sthe power plant of
the company to smake it possible to
detect leak in sthes current at any
time, and arrangements will be made
to raise all of the wires of the COM
mercia1 circuit so thatlthey will be
sufficiently above the wires used to
feed the street lamps Ito make it i'm
possible for any ssag to carry them
againstsIthe wires below and in this
way establish ground circuit.
It is discovered Cthat the pul1eys
connectedNwith the lamps, as located
at the present time, can be reached
by pedestrians, andiOthe men have
been ordered to raise all of these pull
legs SO that it will be just possible for
the trimmerl to reach them when
standing on the insulated stool.
The greatestscare ais to be taken in
regard to the protection of the hun
dreds of guy wires in different parts
of theIcity. These wires are all to be
protected by the building of wooden
boxes, whichs will completely cover
them, andimake it absolutely impossi-
bic for accidents to sfo1low should
these wires bescharged.
Secretary Rowe, of the company,
when seen this morning, said: eve
are goingsto take every possible pre-
caution to.safeguard the lines. We
had used every possible precaution in
the original building of the lines, but
it is we'll known :thatiCthe electric
business is dangerous one, and if a
current gets loose. it is sure to find
some way to foreground. We believed
that the lines were perfectly safe
guarded, butt the accidents of last
Sunday showed that there was cur
rent In the guy wires. We have not
as yet met the committee appointed
by the common council, but if the
members of the committee have any
| suggestions to offer we will be glad to
listen to them and put them into prac-
tice if they are practicable. With the
| system we are now adopting there
should be no chance for accident.
This system is not followed in other
cities, but it is the desire of every one
Of the officials of the company to make
the lines in Kenosha just as safe as is
possible.
The new work of installation, which
has been started by the company, will
cost large sum of money and sew
era1 weeks will be required to COM
p1ete the work in accordance with
the plans.