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Show Use Thousands of Lanterns. Ono of tho contractors of work on tho subway estimates that at least 4,000 red-globed lanterns aro hung o'ut la this city every night to provent pooplo from falling into tho exenva-tlons. exenva-tlons. Tho lanterns aro stored during tho day in big chests at intervals along tho streets whero tho subway la being built, and aro attended by wntchmen who work In three shifts. Thoso who como on In tho afternoon fill and clean and light them, and suspend sus-pend them from tho nails on tho fences that have been built about tho holes In tho streets. Each watchman has a district, which ho patrols and watches as carefully as a policeman does his beat. New York Times. |