The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-01-29

Y1nnntnsGs1El OF az1 the rzrncoushtty ,Rss =
trThutlnE poles df tho sa1sphCu@ ougg .
pauy Dy the Installation or what 3
known as the interior block Hywfnsl
was assured fUE Pensacola wfan 4es
serdBy morning J. p. Curran. specie
representative or the Bell TeAepho hon -,
snd Telegraph Company. who hnr, Dee ~
hare for the past two and hB}E
months. completed tha work Or %
tanning tho permission Of all propcrJF'
holders in the business diHtrlc4 irF
place the wires on the buildings IN Yu
suIate5 cablcg.
In tho business section az prossuE
ali OF tho large cables containing thou
SANDS o. wires and known as mains
arc underground, but these lead 10 W.
rlous ru1 and unslEhtly distri lutlur
poles IL various places throuEhoul aha
business district. Tho uew system wUE
have the wires come up from tho
mains 70 the sides OF tho buildings.
The cables will bs painted the same
shade OF the buildings and viii he
practically invisible so closely WI
they lay TO the exterior walla.
AT CoNsIDERkBLE COST.
The interior block system will 5r iu.
stalled in Pensacola. at q cost OF about
thirty thousand dollars work starting
next month. Mr.. Currau, who leaves
today for New Orleans on o similar
mission will return TO Pensacola when
the actual work begins here. Ne Gays
the installation Of this system In Ncw
Orleans win cost approximately q mill
lion dollars.
PENSACOLA FORTUNATE
Mr. CuTran states that Pensscols. lv
the smallest city In the United States
in which this improved system has
been installed b. the Bel Telephone
and Telegraph COMPANY T8o states
that the Southern Underwri e1-a Asso-
citation has endorsed the idea, asaer
ing that the presence of the ca.bieF on
the building not only does not increase
the chances OF damage by fire, wind
CT electrical storms. but actually reH
GERS the building safer than under the
cid system. The cables are perfecuv
Insulated and do not attract liEhtnines
as do tho open wires from distribUtiuE
poles. He cited an iustancs NJ an ~
lev between two buildings in R8Fn
Vile where The light OF day was si
most obscurcd by = network Of " il'sg
and cables over the alley from ous
building to another. ono Of th0 FtYVlc
lures caught fire and the firsrneu were
greatly haTupered by these wires. Ha8
the interior block system bean IN
fire Iaddics would not have encoun-
tered this trouble and the bEIlding i7s
all probability would baVa been less
DANA ged than II was.
The interior block systGIo will rcn-
Ger Penss scola's telephone lines ~
nearly absolutely underground and in
visible in the business section - pos
aIpIe. This system has been installed
at the cost Of hundreds Of tho-asandg oe
dollars in Nashville, Atlanta, hemphtss
Jacksonville, and a number Of lesE iFn
portant cities Of the south
SERVICE BE IMPROVED.
aIr Curran states that the Eervica
VIII be appreciably improved BY the
new system as the Insulation viii bs
more perfect and the wires viii be less
exposed to the elements and each 9th
er. There will be a small distrfDutinE
box on the rear exterior wall OF each
building in which will be a number %
unused, emergency wires, the cable
being provided with a surplus Of con
nections. When your phone is render
ed ont OF order for one reason OF an
other. you Will call complaint ~
usual, but instead Of having to wa.
TIL the unernan has climbed dozen
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