This is a paragraph from an article from the New York Times, dated August 25 1895. The "double petticoat flint glass insulators" mentioned are CD 244, and the insulators with "oil in their curled rims" are presumably the newly assigned CD 244.3.

Refer to the CD 244 page in the insulator wiki for more information: http://www.insulators.info/wiki/IOTW_CD_244