SECTION 6. INSULATION. DETERMINATION ANCE AND TESTS. OF RESIST The insulation resistance of each length of cable or conductor shall be determined before said length is laid in the subway. In making this determination an electromotive force of current of not less than one hundred and fifty volts shall be employed and the minimum initial resistance as provided in rule 4 shall not be diminished through and after an immersion of the conductor under test of at least sixty consecutive hours. All lines shall be tested for insulation resistance immediately after completion in the subway, and those carrying currents of over one ampere shall be tested daily thereafter for a period of one month, and thereafter at least weekly. A conductor shall be tested for insulation immediately after any new connection with, addition or repair to, or alteration of any sort in, said conductor is made, and also whenever any other conductor is placed in the same tube; conductors conveying currents of less than one hundred [100] volts electro-motive force are excepted from this rule. SECTION 7. TESTS. REPORTS TO BE FILED WITH SUBWAY COMPANY. All tests and determinations called for by these rules shall be made by parties owning or controlling conductors. Duly authenticated records of the results of such tests and determinations within 24 hours after the completion of the same shall be filed with the Subway Company, which shall have power to verify or repeat such tests or determinations in its discretion. SECTION 8. ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO SUBWAYS TO BE MADE BY SUBWAY COMPANY. All alterations of or additions to the subways for the purpose of connecting conductors therein with with points outside will be made by the Subway Company upon the request of the lessee desiring the same, provided the same have been authorized by the Board of Electrical Control, and the expense of making such additions or alterations is satisfactorily guaranteed by the parties desiring them. SECTION 9. RENTALS. TERMS OF CONTRACT. Rental to be paid yearly in advance. Applicants will be required to enter into a written contract, with satisfactory guarantee for its performance. SECTION [O. ACCESS TO SUBWAYS AND MANHOLES. STREET COVERS TO BE LOCKED. All manholes will have the inner cover locked with a special manhold padlock of the Subway Company, the keys of which shall be kept in the Company's office. PENALTY FOR TAMPERING. (a) Any attempt to gain admittance to the manholes and access to the Company's property, or to the property of its tenants without a permit from the Company, by opening or breaking said lock, cover, bar, or other portion of the manhole, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. RIGHT OF ACCESS. (b) Access to the subways shall be limited to the authorized representatives : "1,"of the Board of Electrical Control. "2," of the Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Company, and "3," of the lessees or occupants of the ducts. PERMITS FOR ACCESS. (c) Access to the subways will be had by permit issued to the applicant by the Subway Company upon a written application in the name of the lessee or occupants of the ducts filed in the office of the Company, giving 24 hours notice. There will be no delay by the Company under ordinary circumstances in giving access to the subways, but in cases of emergency the Company reserves the right, in their judgment, to deny access or to postpone the same. ACCESS TO SUBWAYS IN PRESENCE OF SUBWAY IN SPECTOR. (d) Access to the subways shall only be had in the presence of a Subway Inspector of the Subway Company, who shall hold possession of the keys to the manholes ; who shall see that the manholes are properly opened and closed by the applicant; who shall remain present during the operations of the applicant, and who is hereby charged by the Company with the duty of seeing that the Company's property and the property of the tenants of the company are not injured by the operations of the applicant. The Inspector is also charged with the enforcement of all rules and regulations relating to the use of the subways, and he may suspend any employé of the applicant engaged on the work connected with the subways who shall violate any of these rules and regulations. The Subway Company, by its properly authorized agent, shall have authority to require such alterations in conductors as it may deem necessary for their safety or the safety of the subway or of the adjacent conductors; and also to cause the current in any conductor to be interrupted or reduced for such period of time as may be requisite in the judgment of said agent for the proper protection or necessary convenience of persons working in the manholes, or upon the subways in the vicinity of said conductor. MANHOLE GUARD FRAMES. (e) Whenever a manhole is opened, the applicant shall place an iron frame, furnished by the Subway Company, in the street opening, with a red flag about one foot square with the letters "C. T. & E. S. Co." thereon displayed on a staff set in a socket in the frame, as a warning to the public. (f) PRECAUTION AGAINST GAS IN MANHOLES. When manholes are opened, before commencing work, the applicant shall satisfy himself that they are free from gas, and if not, he shall ventilate the manholes. The Subway Company will provide for such purposes a fan or biower to be operated by the applicant for such time as may, in the judgment of his authorized representative be sufficient to clear the manholes of gas to such an extent as to render it safe for his workmen to enter therein; and no light shall be used by the applicant in his operations in the manholes except when the above examination has shown the absence of gas. If, after the first ventilation, gas is noticed, the appli cant shall cause the ventilation to be continued. WATCHMAN ON SURFACE. (g) In all work conducted in the manholes, one man shall always be provided by the applicant to act as watchman on the surface at each manhole when open, who shall keep constant guard and warn pedestrians, drivers of carriages, trucks, street cars, etc., and who shall assist the Subway Inspector in whatever the latter requires in emergencies. SMOKING PROHIBITED. (h) The applicant shall prohibit his employés from smoking in or around manholes. INTOXICATING LIQUORS PROHIBITED. (i) No one under the influence of liquor shall be allowed to engage in work in the subways. PROTECTION AGAINST DUST AND WIND. (k) No cover of any kind whatsoever shall be allowed by the applicant to be placed over the manhole opening; but a shield may be placed around the windward half of the iron frame to protect the workman from dust and wind. SECTION II. DAMAGES. SUBWAY COMPANY NOT RE SPONSIBLE. In no case will the Subway Company be responsible for any damage whatsoever to persons or property due to the existence or employment of the subways or the conductors therein, or any apparatus connected therewith. The Subway Company will, however, use every reasonable precaution to prevent damage from any cause. within its control. SECTION 12. AMENDMENTS TO RULES AND REGULATIONS. The Subway Company reserves to itself the right to add to or amend these rules from time to time, as may, in its judgment, be necessary, subject to the approval of the Board of Electrical Control, Extract from the Minutes of a Meeting of the Board, held April 8th, 1890. Mayor Grant offered the following resolution: "RESOLVED: That Electric Light and Power Companies making application for space in subways hereafter to be constructed, accompany it with a Bond satisfactory to the Engineer of the Board, to the effect that the ducts applied for are actually required and will be occupied." Unanimously adopted. 21 Report of Engineer Kearny on Rentals. 1266 Broadway, NEW YORK, Sept. 15th, 1890. TO THE HON. THE BOARD OF ELECTRICAL CONTROL. GENTLEMEN:-In conformity with the following resolution, passed March 26th, 1890, viz.: "RESOLVED, that the communication of the East River Electric Light Co., dated March 24th, 1890, protesting against the rates of rental charged for the use of ducts for electric light conductors, be referred to the Engineer of the Board to take testimony in respect thereto, and report the same to the Board." I have the honor to report that, in response to my invitation the following named companies, viz.: The East River Electric light Co., The United Electric Light and Power Co., appeared before me on April 2d and again on August 26th last, and appended hereto are the records of the proceedings at those hearings, together with such data and communications as were then and have since been presented. SCHEDULE OF RENTALS. The following is the present Schedule of Rentals charged by the Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Company filed with the Board: 500 " 14 "distribution ducts 1 to 4 inches $1,000 per annum. 66 |