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Show Thaw Out Pipes With Current of Auto? Wrong Again Tho curiosity of pedestrain -along Twenty-fourth street between be-tween Wall and Washington avenue ave-nue was aroused to a keen point yesterday afternoon by trie sight of a touring car stopped near a man-hole In tho street. An odd buzzing noise floated up from tho man-hole and drew a number of spectators. The Iron cover of the imin-hole lying wrong side up on the street nearby seemed to otfer an explanation explan-ation as the face uppermost was coated with long, white frost crystals. crys-tals. What appeared to be long, electric elec-tric cables extended from the touring car down Into the manhole man-hole which coupled with the fin-1 crystals seemed to settle the mat ter with a large portion of the spectator "Thawing out frozen water mains with the electric current from the automobile! ' explained one pseudo-scientist "Ain't enough Juice In a car for that mister." piped up a grimy-faced boy drawn by tho crowd from a nearby garage. "What you doln' anyway?" he went on looking at the man evidently evi-dently in charge. Were splicing lead pipes and cables owned by the Western Union Un-ion son. and we re using an acetylene torch," answered J. 1,. Dunn in charge of the work. And then the crowd drifted off only to meet others drawn toward the scene. oo |