Brooks Insulators

Brooks Insulators.

WE would invite the attention of telegraphic managers and superintendents to the advertisement of Mr. BROOKS, which appears in another column, and will be found interesting reading for practical telegraphers. So far as we can learn it is pronounced a practically perfect insulator by all of the hundreds that have used it during the past six years. The improvement of line insulation is the very foundation and corner stone of all progress in practical telegraphy, and the absurdity of our leading telegraph company in repeating the English blunder of erecting extra heavy and expensive wires, with the necessary accompaniments of proportionately heavy and costly poles, in order to be able to use cheap insulators at a saving of about five dollars per mile, is so glaring as to be almost beyond criticism. Mr. BROOKS makes a rather unique challenge at the end of his advertisement, and we really wish somebody would publicly take him up on it. An insulator that will enable a No. 9 wire to be worked at full speed through a direct circuit of 1,000 miles better than a No. 5 wire on the same set of poles insulated with any of its rivals, certainly ought to make its way in the world. Mr. BROOKS claims that attempts have been made to depreciate the value of his insulator by the publication of measurements of the old style of insulators made by him fifteen years ago, and totally unlike the modern one, and leaving the public to infer that such tests referred to the present insulator. It is not probable, however, that the ultimate success of a valuable invention will be prevented by any possible misrepresentation. Mr. BROOKS ought to remember that the most clubs and stones are thrown at the trees bearing the best apples, and keep on making, advertising and selling insulators. Insulators appear to be his forte, as Artemus used to put it, and he has certainly attained a wonderful degree of perfection in their manufacture.