Show JSLECTBIC LIGHT WIRE tbr Telegram in another part of diE3 HERALD this morning states that danger from contact with unin ted electric light wire is begin tcrffng to excite the fear of New York ib icemen and insurance people If tJe Gotham insurance people sad I gsaoe have just learned that there is fi9n 5r in coming in contact with and an-d tllEUlaled wire used for conveying f e current producing the electric aaht they are exceedingly du1 und nab5ervant peope A current such I z is sent along the wires nightly in vsfSaltLake is powerful enough to kill an instant the strongest man in < th3 country and peibapa disintegrate i1te fibres of the muscles It is a cur xzent < sufficient to melt iron Yet PZhile there is no obstruction to its wee Sow there is no more danger tm handling the wire than there is trraking hold of any bit of copper S2Se danger cornea with the obstruc won of the current or iti direction to c point where there is no proper ese > es-e or complete circuit For in sssnce the turning of the current Ito a telegraph or telephone wire uld be very apt to cause a fire ate at-e telegraph or telephone inatru nent or the allowing of the electric 31igat wire to coma iu contact with a foreign substance that is a con ctor would soon start a blaze at the oint of contact Under all oircum astances and at all times when elect elec-t jtSdcal currents are not under control tiiey are dangerous and the more j scwerful the current the greater the a3nger At times the telegraph wires end instruments are so heavily urged with electricity as to be dan Gnij though the current in them is ever so strong as that required to produce the electric light which is generated by powerful engines It rag stated that the belief prevailed hat the big fire in Philadelphia a few 2yo ago was caused by the electric F < Sight There was little if any con facing evidence that such was the cage Investigation could not fix the ire upon any other source hence it 1 r53 charged to the electric light oneS R one-S foe lights having shown signs of 33 ething wrong with it It may r S3 correct to blame the fire to the Iecfrio lights but as mysterious fires ail the time occurring at places cue there is no electric light it is idly fair to chargeJthia one to the 33Qice indicated without some better cidence thanhas beenibrought for 06 std At the same time that blaze < milperhaps result in good in this mat it will cause a thorough inveati ron into the dangerous character rSf the new light and the devising of eans for overcoming the evil If it aU result in the prevention of the stringing in cities of electric light Wires that are not properly insulated cp S to guard against danger from s or from people coming in eon with the highly charged con uoters it gill be a good thing j p l < |