Show NEW YORK AND TROLLEY WIRES THE new york papers are waging a war of extermination on the trolley isy system stern of street railways the main contention is that the telephone system Is ie interfered with by induction and as a secondary protest is brought forward the objection to anything so as a trolley wire being allowed on the streets of the metropolis we believe the average nw new york editor would fall into melancholia were he to discover that an important enterprise of thi sort which other cities have bare accepted as worthy had passed him without being pronounced utterly absurd the objection raised to the trolley system on the score of interference ter ference with the telephone current is all right if the evil were not susceptible of remedy but it is and besides this objection from new york is made especially ridiculous di culous by the fact that the city has an ordinance requiring biring the telephone companies to put their wires under ground moreover under the relentless assaults from the very papers that are now springing the telephone question as an argument against a trolley rail way the city authorities have already begun chopping down the poles but it is no matter bout about that in ten years hence when every other city in america will be using the electric car the new york papers will very likely still be cherishing the incompetent and utterly grotesque horse car on the ground that the electric trolley wire is not pretty an editor that in one breath will denounce as cruel and horrifying the law for killing criminals by electricity because the victim appears to suffer and in the next breath will contend for the old barbaric process of hanging banging be causene cau cause the scoundrel deserves to be hung may be expected to say almost anything however absurd and illogical in order to carry his bis point there are objections to the overhead wire but its if one of them is not worth speaking of first it to Is dangerous and second posts reared in the middle of the street as they have to be for the trolley wire system are inconvenient but one of these days some great head bead may perfect a practical plan for conducting the current in a trench under the roadbed when that is done the system of street transit will be a pretty near approach to perfection |