. Electric railway journal . e and will need no alteration. Since ithas been installed there has been only one breakdown onthe line and that was in the copper trolley wire and not inthe steel messenger cable. This line has been subjected toextraordinarily severe sleet storms, one of which recentlybroke down copper and iron telegraph wires within a ter-ritory 40 miles wide. The sleet conditions at the time ofthis storm were such that the wires accumulated suchheavy loads as to cause a break in every span for dis-tances of from 2 miles to 3 miles. The parallel telephoneand telegraph lines where
. Electric railway journal . e and will need no alteration. Since ithas been installed there has been only one breakdown onthe line and that was in the copper trolley wire and not inthe steel messenger cable. This line has been subjected toextraordinarily severe sleet storms, one of which recentlybroke down copper and iron telegraph wires within a ter-ritory 40 miles wide. The sleet conditions at the time ofthis storm were such that the wires accumulated suchheavy loads as to cause a break in every span for dis-tances of from 2 miles to 3 miles. The parallel telephoneand telegraph lines where a large number of wires werecarried on one pole also were brought to the ground bythe breaking of the poles due to the weighing down of thewires to the breaking point. The catenary, as earlierstated, withstood these severe weather conditions with butone br,eak. This type of construction has three-point sus-pension and is supported by wooden poles. In making the change from alternating current to direct Eastern GraniteRoe-hog.
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