France 



"is seen that the arms have warped, and are no longer symmetrical. 

 At Amiens the central station fixture is one of the towers designed 

 by M. Belz, a specimen of which was shown at the Paris Exhibition 

 of 1889, erected on a red brick turret. Taken as a whole, the 

 French overhouse construction must be adjudged deficient in 

 capacity, although strong and well executed. When the French 

 subscribers begin to come on more freely than they have (outside 

 Paris) hitherto done, present methods will not suffice, and a new 

 departure will have to be taken. The ground pole work in 



FIG. 54 



FIG. 55 



France, so far as the authors observation went, has attained no 

 abnormal development whatever. The poles are simply the 

 familiar erections of the French Telegraph Department and the 

 French railway companies. A common form of suburban tele- 

 phone route is composed of two 18 or 20 feet wooden poles 

 tied together as in fig. 52, with insulators arranged in precisely 

 the same fashion. When the poles are straight, well dressed, 

 and well matched which is not always the case, however with 

 the insulators properly spaced, such a route is not wanting in 

 picturesquer.ess, but it is wofully deficient in carrying capacity. 



