Show LIGHTN INUI conductors tins is an interesting subject ahe he more so from tile the fact that we are constantly st at some seasons of tae year subjected to visitacti visitations tati ons from the dangerous fluid of the upper clep a case of lightning stroke having occurred as late as thursday last in this city the subjoined sub joined by prof tendall Tn dall which is taken from the london times will be read with interest your recent remarks on thun der storms and their effects induce me to submit to you the fallow ing facto facca and considerations arue years ago a rock lighthouse was struck and damaged by lightning an engineer was sent down to report on the occurrence and as I 1 then held the honorable and responsible post of tide adviser to the trinity house and board of trade the report was submitted tome to me the lightning conductor had been carried down clown the lighthouse tower its lower extremity being carefully care fally iwer I 1 y in ia a stone perforated perforated erf orated to receive it if the object g had ad been to invite the lightning to strike the tower a better arrangement could hardly have been adopted I 1 gave directions to have the conductor immediately prolonged and to have added to it a large terminal plate of copper which was to be completely submerged bub merged in the sea the obvious convenience of a chain as a prolongation of the conductor caused the authorities ties in ireland to propose it but I 1 was obliged to veto tte the adoption of the chain the contact of et link with link is never perfect I 1 had moreover beside me a portion of a chain cable through which a lightning discharge had bad passed the electricity in passing from f rom link to link encountering a resistance si sufficient to enable it to partially fuse the chain the abolition of resistance is absolutely necessary in connecting a lightning conductor with the earth and this is done by closely embedding inthe la the earth a plate of good conducting material and of large area the largeness of area makes atonement tor for the imperfect conductivity of earth the plate in fact constitutes a wide door through which the electricity 1 passes freely anto the earth ft its e disruptive and dil damaging waging effects was no abusive language to aeri her we were as mild as we possibly could be we took her to justice danals where was wa a kept a couple of hours I 1 went back to the house and told fer gousou esou and lv lanett nett to carefully move the furniture furniture off the premises which they did I 1 then gave the possession of the house to mrs tompkins I 1 had nothing to do with tearing the house down I 1 left when mrs tompkins took possession and have not been on the ground since the next day dec I 1 levied on some of her goods for the judgment I 1 asked marks for it first and he said he did not know anything about abolt lt it he be afterwards asked for time and I 1 granted it then said he could do no business while I 1 was in the tae store and I 1 left shortly after checks for the amount ot of the judgment J and cost were sent to me when the mail came in on monday I 1 got a telegram from D evans ackle me to stay the execution this was after the fuss was over later in the day I 1 received a dispa dispatch teu from ike fordonski to the same effect as that sent seat by evans the next day the I 1 got cot two letters one from commissioner hills and one from david evans I 1 received them bad collected the money the checks were in my pocket at the time cross examined by mr varlan varian 1 I again again arrested mrs marks on the 0 on n the 19 1111 I 1 did not read the warrant to her because she was screaming terribly bibly I 1 told her I 1 had bad a warrant for being avoided these rhese truths are element elementary alry but they are often neglected lecter I 1 watched wa wih b interest some time ago the operation of setting up a lightning conductor on the house of a neighbor of mine in the country tae wire rope which formed part of the conductor was carried down clown the wall and comfortably laid in the earth below without any terminal plate whatever I 1 postulated expostulated ex with wita the man who did the work but he obviously thought bought he knew more about the matter r than I 1 did I 1 am credibly informed that this is a common way of dealing with lightning conductors by ignorant practitioners and the bishop of win chesters palace at farnham has bean mentioned ped to me as an edifice protected in this fashion if my informant be correct the protection is a mockery a delusion and aad a snare anare 11 |