This arrangement of wires has always been considered as a disfiguring
and dangerous eyesore, and at last our quick-sighted cousins ‘across
the water’ have determined that the nuisance shall be forthwith abated.
In New York, Washington, St Louis, Chicago, and other great cities
of the United States, legislative decrees have been issued for the
compulsory abolition of all overhead wires, which will in future be
conducted underground in tunnels beneath the pavement, and by this
means a great improvement will be effected in the matter of street
architecture, and some dangers to passengers will be removed. Many
instances have been known in America where, from violent storms of wind
or snow, the telegraph posts have been blown down, occasioning injury
and even death to passengers. All this will be avoided by the new
arrangement.