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Show I'll k overhead wires had a rough experience ex-perience during the recent atortn. A New York exchange says it furn-ihes furn-ihes an unanswerable argument in favor of putting all wires now overhead over-head under ground. For it tore down in tthat city two-thirds of tho polos north of Fifty-ninth street, twisted the wires, rendered game streets well-nigh impassable, suspended telephonic communication, and made it necessary to put out the electric lights everywhere. It shut Now York as completely off from the rest of the country aa if a siege by a foreign foe could do, and made it easier to get news from Europe than from Newark or Fast Orange. For a baby bluzard this was a pretty enterprising enter-prising twelve hours' work, which will cost telegraph, telephone and electric light companies vast sums. Not only does the storm point the lesson j against overhead wires in the city, I but it puts a positive premium on in-I in-I ventions which, by lessening tho num-j num-j ber of wires needed for the telegraphy of tho country, shall make it so much harder for communication to be interrupted. inter-rupted. It is well known that iu proportion pro-portion us the number of wires on one pole increases, the danger of breakage from ice increases also. Hring on your duplex, quadruples, octuplex systems. |