Show w i f r jt I lf t to 1 J e t. t P n 1 I NEW NEW EW IN IN IN i Great Ei ted by bT the tho A L Style SU Suggested af d i I eal Transmission Lines Line j A nomadic electrical engineer an and andi tho the from Inventor re recently returned Pacific coast relates th the following story Etory In the Electrical Engineer A Afew Afew A few tew weeks ago a great American eagle which had been born and brought up In California and was therefore a a. sound-money sound advocate was making a visit In the vicinity of ot Fresno Cal While he was waiting arou around o on the Mountainside mountainside e for his friends to appeal appear he became weary and decided to alight In some conveX convenient place for tor an inter interval Inter Interval val of rest He happened to land on one of the barb wires of ot the electric transmission line coming down from the mountains Into Fresno While enJoying enjoying enjoying en- en his siesta an eagle came along whom the California bird at I took for tor one of his friends The I stranger also made the mistake of ot supposing supposing sup- sup I posing that that the California eagle was was wasa a friend of his consequently he alighted alight alight- ed cd on another wire of the transmission sion slon line directly opposite arid and b began gan l a conversation In the course course coure of ot the I talk It was discovered that the newcomer newcomer new new- I comer comer cOnter was was a Nevada da bird bid and arid and consequently conse- conse c conse consequently nse- nse a rabid free tree It Is much the he same with the teath feathered red things of ot the air as it Is with human beings that Is to say that the course course of ot conversation conversa conversation n naturally llY turned to politics and from that to a a. discussion of ot the money question The crisis came came canie when the birds passed tram Prom words words' to blows The man who saw the fight Is Is' not exactly certain in his own mind who struck first but he Is positive that when the be beaks ks of or orthe the two eagles met the Uie only thing that hat t the he could see was a cloud of smoke and anda a flash of ot lightning Closer Closer Inv investigation investigation st g tion revealed the fact that Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- un under er th the perches formerly occupied occupied oc oc- by the two eagles were two pairs of ot claws two beaks and s several veral 1 bushels of scorched ed arid and pungent t feathera feath- feath feath feathers ath ers era scattered over oyer the tha scenery ry Th The puff of ot smoke Included the balance of the remains But here is where thereal the thereal thereal real damage was done When these thes two eagles crossed their bills bUls' they short circuited the line and caused an arc which was maintained for som some same minutes between the two opposite sides of ot the line until the copper was melted through and the circuit was was vas broken A search party was sent forth to discover over the cause of the lack o of electric power in Fresno and it was was sev several r l hours before the damage was wag T Tr r repaired p The linemen emen who str straightened straighten straighten- ed out the tangle h have v preserved the beaks an and cl claws ws of ot the birds and d several sev- sev sev several veral v- v eral of ot the feathers found on on tha the ground This Js all the 1 proof roof that any sane man man would require as to the actual actual actual actu actu- al occurrence I have described bed |