Show PUBLIC SAFETY our telegraphic dispatches this issue an account of tha commendable action on tho part of mayor grant of new york in having the electric light telegraph and telephone poles taken from the streets of that city and causing the wires to be placed underground chii move will be heartily endorsed all over the nation in view of tho serious calamities that have lately occurred from their dangerous position harold P brown the electrical engineer of new york city is probably the man who should receive the credit for this laudable move somo time last year he became alarmed at the large number of deaths caused by careless methods and criminal economy on the part of various companies and addressed a letter to the york evening past in which the following occurred the death of the poor boy who touched a straggling telegraph wire on east broadway on april and was instantly killed is closely followed by the death of mr whito in fiant of bowery and of william murray at broadway on may alth and any day may add new victims to the list alter every such accident the newspapers clamor to have the wires placed underground der ground while the electricians connected with the system at fault hold their peace or throw the blame on the telephone wires until the matter baa been forgotten As an electrical engineer I 1 know that burying the wires would not remedy the trouble though it would largely diminic dimi nih the risk while the enforcement of a few common sensa regulations would make ital maet impossible to kill a man from an arc light currant it will not do for electricians to state that they don t know what killed that man for unless they take prompt measures to make their business safe some terrible accident will cause the id option of laws to regulate electric lightning which being framed by their enemies will or destroy thair business at the risk of offending some corpora ions having heavy investments in unsafe systems mr brown stated some facts have ended in the manner described in our dispatches |