Show DANGERS OF ELECTRIC LIGHT when the electric light was first introduced in tile country its originators igil igina tors claimed as one of its principal ip advantages over gas its harm less nesa as with regard to explosion fil rc re etc As to tile absence of any danger from explosion the claim appears to hold good i enough but the case is 13 different as to fire danger has lim not only been apprehended but experienced from froin the wires stretched along with imperfect insulation or in too great proximity or close intersection with other wires tims thus we leam that the new york I F fire i re commissioners apprehend danger from froin the electric light wires which are stretching over so much AI of that city on monday oct the woodwork over the entrance of the germania theater eater thirteenth street arcet and broadway was fired by contact with the naked wire permitted by a break in tho the insulator lead over the was ritel melted ted by the electric current the tile lights whose wire did this damage belong to the theater and are not connected with the public lighting in of the street tho the next day an imperfectly insulated electric wire lighting p private private premises came in contact with a fire tele telegraph gomph wire in william street and the current flashed into t he sig nal box near chambers street and quite quito demolished it the than NY Y sun from which wo we glean these facts which are of universal significance further apprehends that if the insulation is thus imperfect while new constant repetition of such accidents when it becomes old and worn out is t to be feared another source of danger by the electric light wires results when the they y have to bo be cut awa away y from the tile tops of houses to permit the firc firemen inen to work at fires they have to be cut with an instrument having a wooden linn handle dle if the handle is wet it becomes a conductor and tho the fireman holding li it stands in danger of receiving a fatal shock that no fatal accident of the sort lias has happened as yet is due to tile gamt care which is exercised by the firemen and which sooner or later in an exciting emergency will not be exercised |