Lehigh Valley Railroad, uses Brooks insulators

The Lehigh Valley R. R. Telegraph.

Mr. H. A. CLUTE, Superintendent of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Telegraph, has just completed a new wire from Waverly, N. Y., to Mauch Chunk, Pa., 161 miles, along the line of that road, which is ultimately intended to form part of a through railroad wire from Waverly to Philadelphia, to be used for the business of that company. This line is built of the best quality of No. 9 galvanized wire, upon Brooks' screw shank parafinn insulators, and almost as a matter of course showed no perceptible escape during a heavy drizzling rain, accompanied with fog, which occurred soon after its completion.

Mr. Clute, like other superintendents who have tried the Brooks insulator, and take pride in the perfect working of their lines, says that he is certain from his own experience that this insulator, when economy of maintenance is considered, is the cheapest one in the market, and futhermore [sic] furthermore states that no difference whatever is perceptible in the working of lines thus insulated, whether the weather is wet or dry.

Mr. Clute's lines are all carefully and thoroughly built, and equipped with all the modern improvements, and reflect the highest credit upon himself as well as the railroad company, who have promptly seconded all his efforts for the improvement of their telegraphic system.