Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-29
OVERHEAD WIRES
WILL BE MOVED
Electric Light and Other Utili-
ties Plan Big Program
For Summer

Overhead poles and wires a-plenty
are due to disappear from some of
Harrisburg's streets before next win
ter, II the plans of the Harrisburg
Light and Power and other electric
service companies materialize.
Approval of the ordinance granting
the Cumberland Valley Telephone
Company permission to lease a por-
ton of its conduits to the Western
Union Telegraph Company will give
the latter utility the chance to put
some more of its wires under ground.
Work OH this improvement will be
started in the near future.
The Postal Telegraph and the Bell
Telephone Companies have done Won
ders IN removing their poles. but the
american Telegraph and Telephone
Company has practically all its over
head network to eliminate.
Lighting Federal Square
The question of extension of the
standard street lighting system has
been considered by c. NJ. Kaltwasser,
of the electric light company, and
Harry F. Bowman, superintendent of
public. safety, but the illness of Mr..
Bowman has prevented a definite set
tlement of details. Included in the
proposed extension, some additional
standards, it had been hoped, could
be secured for the Locust street side
of Federal Square and Postmaster
Frank c. Sites is cooperating in the
movement.
Removal of the network of wires
and heavy poles on Federal Square
and particularly on Court street from
Walnut street northward is planned in
this summers program.
Within the next six years, the entire
underground" district of the city will
be free OF overhead wires and poles
so far as the Harrisburg Light &
Power Company's property is con-
cerned, according to L. L. Ferree, su-
perintendent of construction The
work that has been mapped out for
the summer is very extensive and a
considerable amount of the "over-
head network" will be removed before
winter.
The Underground Districts
The underground" districts, as
prescribed by the electric merger or
dinance, includes the section of the
city lying between North and Null
berry streets and the Pennsylvania
railroad and the river. While the
big job confronting the company is
the removal of the remaining poles
and wires from the streets in this dis
trict, the elimination of poles in the
| alleys is also an important end of the
job Some forty or more distributing
poles have been taken out of the al
leys. In the outlying districts" as
the section outside the underground
district is called, the work of remov-
ing duplicate lines, is to be pushed
ahead this year. Much of this work
has already been accomplished and
possibly fifty per cent. have been
eliminated, according to Mr.. Ferree.
The program, as already mapped
out by Mr.. Ferree. includes the lay
ing of conduits in Green street from
| North to Verbeke, cross lines in Boas
from Myrtle to Susquehanna; in
South, from Court to Second. This
will mean, of course, the elimination
| of poles and wires in these sections.
All of this work will be pushed with
the view of completing as big a por-
ton of the program this summer as
possible. Special attention, however,
will be given to the task of clearing
the poles and wires from Second street
as far north as Verbeke and when this
is finished this highway will be free
from Mulberry to Verbeke streets.
Much Work Ahead
We've got lot of work ahead of
US it is true" said Superintendent
Ferree, but we are bending every
effort toward finishing as much of the
program as possible this summer We
have done lot of work in eliminating
the overhead network and we expect
to get good deal more completed be-
fore cold weather calls a halt"
The ordinance recently passed by
Council will allow the Western Union
to enter Cumberland Valley Tele-
phone Company conduit at River and
Walnut streets with its wires down
River to Strawberry, on out Straw
berry to loop in at the Third street
station. and then continue on out
Strawberry to Cowden street. Over
head lines extend in Walnut to
Fourth, to State. to Cowden, to Ver-