The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10

as i7sth street. then along fifth and MAdi
son avenues. takes in RandAlla Wards ans
BlackwellS islands and comes back bJ
way % Fffty-ninth street This way o
having circuits run hcrs. there AnC
svsrywhere. which IL characteristic 81
New York. IL called int0rlacing 90 distin'
gtish Il from what IL called the blOck
system. That too - consi dered old
fashioned now
! Besides the cables on Thlrb avsnus
there are a number Of other Tag tines
hut non. 20 important. For instance.
there - a cable running along the Ninth
: avenu. elevated should that cable
meet with dis a-,er the West Side bs-
tween Chri-toph er street and Seventy
ninth street would bs Without any worHIng
firehoxe-. Another runs Ip the Park
avenue railroad tunnel from sixty eighth
, street noSh From the=s radiats the
fifty circrt- to which the boxea are
fastened and also those working the drop
harness and the gongS IN the fra ho,lses
In Manhattan island alone there are
something like / J8O Tnile- - fire cable
and wires The BrOnN has system Of
il own now 4 few wears ago u was
found 10 ls necessary on account of the
growth % that section When yOu Asnd
IN an alarm IA The BronN II goe~ TAI q fire.
house centrally lo~aied. From there the
stgnat- are cent OJt 70 Bronx engines.
Quite often The bronx has to ask Man
haitian for help. Then the Bronx head
quarters sends word down Ia Eirs Head
quarters IN Sixty -a-venth street and
from theirs go the signals Ia the proper
engines It'E all done IN iiHv too.
Brooklyn also has it, own system. which
- NOR behind the times than that of
Manhattan
On.. ~ th. r.aann. Nrhv Naw Vork
has been criticised Of late years - that
not only the smaller circuits hut ths
big cables run alongside Of bag high
tension C'irrsnts. a condition that was
ono S9' T I9TT1 av ySS. AES AS, Se '- S.
within thrs' feet of the third rail. ~
much sis-tTIcity around " NAV inter
fere with III signals.
Up ia the brain centre Of this iire nerve
sv-tem in sixty seventh -trset you never
theles- fesl admiration foe ths U1y u
works. FaCe the great signalling board.
for instance. a. some one does every
, hour Of the twenty -four. and See the
manner in which the rcd boxes com
municate the news u danger. The atill-
hess ~ broken suddenly by a buzx q little
DISK lights up show nR what circuit -
adorisd and simultaneously q clock
like machine DeginA To print an dashe-
the number of the Oox that has been
pulled
into action. You "A man bending
over tho clock Wheel- reading the dashes
and the next second he Jumps over and
pulls out a drawer from q c hest con-
tanning little brass disk-. arranged CON
secutIvsly 10y numbers. Grabbing the
proper disk. he puts this on another clock-
like machine and IL begins Ia go around
and around
~ j. dropping the harness. on the backs
Of psrhap- thirty pairs % horses In the
- mhGa
A s-cond mors and the same man grabs
the same disk and puts it on another
par % the same wonderful little CON
trIvanCe u Clork wheels Around again
gOe~ the disk and the number IL repre-
-enf- - icing gwen ON the big brass
gong la the hrshoiEes and long before
u - done turning YOU know the HORSES
Ars %
In this same room there 10 another and
bigger machine -et in a big glass case
They send In the -p.ciAl ziGnal- rom this.
such signals a. the two nine-.- which
u msTely . warning signal - get rss1v
for a call Tor engins- from another dis
trict I'm the night ~ lOm kipp,R two
years ago they handled hfty alarms I'm
two hour up ~ this hrain centre ~ the
system
II NeW York g.tz the new system which
Commissioner Waldo l. asking for there
will 10 manv radical changes la all this.
for II - prOpo-sd "a isolate this centre
II th" system far away from where u
can ~ Threatened With fire. ia central
Park. ~ j. hoped strangely enough
thi- most important part ~ ID" depart
ut.ni : anatomy - a. present lOcated
m What j. known a IRE hazard. Tor
the hsaduuArtsr- buildinK u not fire.
proof and about " stand buildings anil
which could make a big blAy''
l. j. a risk too great ~ ~. run in the
opinion 81 the Hoard 81 Underw riter~.
aud for wears the board has teen trying
IL. fhas s4NFU tn IA
danger Of u Let Fire HeadquartSrp
take hr- and ths department would
b. absolutely paralyzsd