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A STREET INCIDENT

WHEN'THE OVERHEAD WIRE 1 • BROKE;:. The overhead tramway wire had. broken and the dropped end liad writhed itself to rest iipou' I lie 'woodblocks. Immediately the crowd began to gather—from the'shops, oflic.es,.and held-up cars. - "Keep off that wire," called a conduc-tor,-"if you don't want a sudden, death." 1 Then a man in'blue, full of authority, appeared oil'' the Scene. ' "Stimd back, there! The' wire's' alive.'' Get■ right back —we don : t want any .accidents!" .' And everyone eyed the innoeent-look-■i(i'j': wire" as though-it wero some evil contraption of the foul fiend himself, ready at a touch to frizzle up its victims. Prom, the crowd across the, way stalked a man, and the crowd waited fearstricken lest he 6hould . come iu contact' with the wire, which was halfobscured by, the gloom of the'evening and the dazzling light, from the, shop "windows. Without any. hesitation, and with bare han(ls,,.hq. : ,'stb6ped,'picked lip the wire,, carried it 'frSni the "track and laid it iij the side channbl'J whilst tho crowd gasped in dismay. ' '' He ' was' immediately grabbed fiercely by the constable, who had, a determined look in his eye that threatened an appearance, the ncx.t, morning before the S.M. Expectantly the crowd awaited the denouement. '.

The daring one simply whispered something and walked away. It was the chief engineer of both the tramways and electric lighting'power-houses. The explanation;-was very simple. A# soon as a break occurs it is reported,-tho, ."breaker" for the section (between the two feeders)-is cut off, deadening tho • wire. When temporary . repairs are effected the "breaker" at the power-house .is put nu again, and. the, power continues to. do its. work.-

' All the sam.e, this is not to be iaken iis. an 'invitation for anyone to handlfl an overhead wire,-broken, or otherwise.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 6

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293

A STREET INCIDENT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 6

A STREET INCIDENT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 6

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