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Show WIRES AND POLES COMING DOWN. The Western Union Telegraph company this morning commenced com-menced to 6trip the high poles in the center of Twenty-fourth street and by Tuesday evening the fifteen men at work will have the wires and poles removed from that thoroughfare. Thia is the disappearing of the great network of wires which for years has been an important part of a local and transcontinental telegraphic tel-egraphic service, the most important perhaps in the United States, because of the part it has played in world-encircling commercial and i social news. . The wires, unnoticed in fair weather, were always an attractive sight in the winter days when the 100 or more lines, in beautiful frosting, seemed countlejss and inextricably interlaced ! Now the whole system of wires is transferred to the "under- j ground," where cables are carrying the world messages. The cables j enter the conduits at the Western Union office and emerge at the via- i duct atthe foot of Twenty-fourth street. The tearing down of wires and poles will add to the general im-1 im-1 provement of Twenty-fourth street. I - |