CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. Share full article. Oct. 1, 1881. ... See the article in its original context from October 1, 1881, Page 8 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

A New York Times article from 1881 described in detail the startling arrival of “unsightly” telegraph poles on Pine Street in Manhattan, explaining that “gangs of laborers” proceeded to ...