Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

The New York board of aldermen have decided that the electric wires in that city must be put under ground and the light companies have been given two years from the first of next May to complete the construction of their lines upon the new system.

The constantly increasing danger of overhead lines transmitting the death-dealing current had become so manifest that not only did vital public interests demand the improved system, but the electric companies themselves conceded its practicability and only asked for time to make the necessary arrangements. In foreign cities the underground system is largely used with great success and popular approval; in Philadelphia several squares of it have already been laid and it works charmingly. Sooner or later all must come to this and experience has shown that street improvements, and especially underground work, had better be done substantially and on the best possible plan at the outset. The electric light is sure to be a costly improvement in any event, and while it is being adopted, cities may as well secure the best and the least dangerous method of erecting it.