More Benefits of Glass Insulators, Brooks mentioned

More Benefits of Glass Insulation.

WE have heretofore referred to the bad working, in stormy weather, of the wires of the Western Union Company, between this city and Washington, D. C. Under the direction of General Superintendent ECKERT money has been spent without stint to put these wires in apparently perfect condition, and it is difficult to see how, under the present system of insulation, they can be further improved.

So confident was this persistent advocate and exponent of glass insulation that these wires were in condition to signally vindicate his policy, that the repeaters were some time since removed from the Philadelphia office, and henceforth, in all weathers, the wires between these places were to be worked in one circuit.

What has been the result? We have already given the experience of one wet day, and not a bad one either, when all business had to be re-sent at Philadelphia. On Tuesday last there was a heavy rain storm. The usual result followed. The wires were in a horrible condition. All business - there being no repeaters - had to be received and re-sent each way at Philadelphia. On Tuesday afternoon and evening ten operators were on duty in that office, engaged solely in repeating New York and Washington business! This is economy with a vengeance!

How long will the Directors of the Western Union Company allow this charlatan to make ducks of drakes of its money? Thousands of dollars are sacrificed every week in the Eastern Division of that company by this stupid adherence to the exploded telegraphic fallacy of glass insulation. No wonder dividends are impossible under such stupid management.

With BROOKS' Improved Paraffine Insulators these wires could be relied upon in all weather to work up to their full capacity. It is a rule, however, with such men as General Superintendent ECKERT, to never allow business interests to interfere with personal prejudices.