Philadelphia and Erie Railroad to use Brooks insulators

Rebuilding of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad

Telegraph Lines. - Glass Insulators

Replaced with Brooks'.

THE Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company are rebuilding their telegraph lines on the entire road from Erie to Sunbury. The new line makes a fine appearance, and will compare very favorably with the best lines in the country. The new line is completed in the Eastern Division, from Sunbury to Williamsport; and about twenty miles of the poles are up west of Williamsport, ready for the transfer of the wires. The poles used are all thirty feet long, and six inches in diameter at the small end, and are pointed and painted, with an arm at the top for two wires, and a second cross-arm for four wires. These poles are all set four feet deep, and in all respects the line has been, and is being constructed in the most substantial and durable manner.

Between Williamsport and Sunbury the insulation used is the Western Union pattern of glass - about the worst that has been devised as yet - but from Sunbury west Brooks insulators of the new pattern, or old shields refilled, will be exclusively used, it having been demonstrated so conclusively that the Brooks is far superior to any glass insulator in all respects.