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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ay flat on the ground. TheNew York-Chicago line west of Har-risburg. Pa., had particularly roughgoing as well. Both of these routescarried important services and, incase of line failure, little re-routing 1952 Old LD Lines Are Finally Retiring 113 could be done without affecting theservice adversely. A man about to clear troublewould often fill up a spring wagonwith the equipment thought to beneeded and disappear into the dis-tance, his office having rather vagueideas as to when he might return. It was often cold work, and the waythe men prepared for the weathercalled forth a comment by an oldIrish woman who lived near the teststation at Cuyahoga Falls. Sure,thim linemen cant git cold. Theyhave as minny coats on as an onion.Perhaps she made her observation in Left: This pole—#11040—out-side the test station at Maiimee,Ohio, was a Long Lines land-mark/or 60 years Below: Down she comes! Butpieces of the noted old pioneerhave been preserved in telephonemuseums and by telephone people
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114 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER 1904, when the New York-Chicagoline was hit by a sleet storm so badthat it practically destroyed the routealong the 100 miles between Wash-ington, N. J,, and Lebanon, Pa. Fair as Well as Stormy Days There were, of course, fair as wellas stormy days in maintenance work,days when quiet competence was theonly job requirement. But a ratherspecial day was the occasion when agang rerouting a line near Wilming-ton, Del., was invited by one of theDuPonts to visit the magnificentLongwood Gardens, where refresh-ments were served and an organistentertained them. There were days of high adven-ture too. Evidently a number ofmen dwell in memory on the timeswhen they set out in row boats torepair a line—and were nearly sweptover the edge of a nearby dam.Then there was the time when a cou-ple of linemen found that the causeof trouble was a thief up a pole steal-ing wire while another man stoodguard with a gun. And there wasthe exciting episode when a young fel-low

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