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Electric lighting service lines were strung on the crossover pole on the far left. Two wires loosely drooped down to a mast-arm mounted arc light that illuminated this intersection. This fixture with its globe are seen directly in front of the two-crossarm pole on the left. There was "slack" in the two wires that led to the streetlamp so that the fixture could be easily serviced by lowering it down via a hand-crank mechanism at about eye-level on the same pole. Also note there is a rounded-top cast iron fire alarm call box on this pole too. The lines in the background were for communications purposes. I think the three-crossarm, double-armed pole to the right of the bridge might have followed along a railroad track (very faintly seen, if in fact that is what was there?) pararelling the river, carrying telegraph wires. To the left is what likely was a double crossarm pole supporting telephone subscriber circuits. |