A NEW DANGER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1812, 11 April 1888, Page 2

A NEW DANGER

A dozen years, ago one had, indeed, a patent though very rarly effective, Boaroo of danger m the overhead telegraph wires of one large cities. Now there are m Borne towns not only this bat two other kindred powers at work In the telephone and the electric lighting communications. The fact that these are not always for the public mere mutters of convenience has been repeatedly demonstrated by soon accidents an that which was lately reported from New York. In this lnstanoe a broken telephone wire, oomlng m contact with one charged with electricity fo» lighting purposes, became itself a conduoling medium, and was wound m Us fall round the fora- qvi art era of a passing horse with, of course, fatal oonßeq^uenoes. It is also said that the driver, Id his ignorant endeavors to free the animal, was barely prevented from handling the fatal wire. This and similar accidents whloh have occurred from time to time, while they counsel, on the one hand, tha most perfect insulation uf the conducting wires, must also give weight to an argument m favor of the partly adopted and most rational practice of oarry the wires underground instead of over the house-tops, M is now too muoh the rale. — " Lancet."

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