Show ELECTRIC WIRE DANGERS ITIS IT IS SAFER t NOT TO TOUCH A BROKEN THAT DANGLES IN THE very few people know how to ban die electric wires remarked a well known electrician to a N Y world reporter and it is unfortunate that such is the case in view of the frequency with which broken ends of such wires are encountered dangling 9 in the street how would I 1 advise people to handle them well I 1 would advise them not to handle them at all A very innocent looking piece of telephone or district call wire even may conceal instant death the broken telephone or messenger call wire may at some point some in contact with an electric light wire vire avei which a fierce dynamo current to is being sent and that current Is ie liable to be diverted and rush to the earth through the smaller wire and the body of any one woo wao happens to touch the latter the electric light wires strung overhead are covered with cotton or soma other conducting non substance and as long as aa this insulating covering remains intact the wires can be safely handled bandied but the frie friction tion caused by another wire resting on the cover covering aa soon wears it off and makes a good electrical contact between the two wires rendering the ordinarily innocent wire as deadly as its electric light neighbor A person standing on the stone pavements is a good electrical conductor and a double contact is not necessary the people who know a little about electricity run more risk than those who do not the former usually know that to send telegraph messages a complete cir cuitis feces sary and that no shock occurs unless you form a connecting link between the two ends of A a circuit hence they conclude that electric light wires are harmless unless you are in contact with both ends eads of the circuit which is erroneous as death has resulted to in ma many instances ns from merely touching an DT e etric lagat wire or another wire which is in contact with an elg electric etric light wire A night or two ago the writer saw two mon men pulling at the end of a broken telephone wire on broadway and as it lay jay across an electric light wire he be cautioned them to desist they sneered at this suggestion but ideally one of them put on a glove and resumed pull r ing and jerking within three minutes thereafter he lay stunned on the sidewalk he had worn the coating off and but for far his glove would probably have been killed |