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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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ously indicatedby colored lamps and a bell that ringsa corresponding signal. With these arrangements it will bepossible to alert the entire UnitedStates in less than two minutes. From the A. T. llf T. AnnualReport for ig^l The Old Ginkgo Tree It was a beautiful old tree, lifting its greenhands to the sun. welcoming a hundredsprings, tall and sturdy through a hun-dred winters. Generations of children hadplayed beneath its summer shadows, andin the autumn its leaves turned to burnishedgold and there would be a cloth of gold onthe earth beneath its branches. It ivas a beautiful old tree, and the peo-ple of Frankfort, Kentucky, loved it. Itwas a ginkgo tree, brought from Japan byone of Commodore Perrys men more thana hundred years ago and planted thereon the old Averill place, on WashingtonStreet. The telephone company heardabout it first from Mrs. Marvin Averill,who wrote: The telephone company has purchasedthe old Averill home, where I was receivedas a bride and spent many happy days. I
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live across the street now with my daugh-ter. All the people of Frankfort love ourold tree. We hope it will continue to livefor many years to come. That presented a problem to the tele-phone company ; for construction was sched-uled to begin on a new telephone buildingthere on Washington Street. How couldthe tree be saved? Telephone companyarchitects tried to redesign the building, ormove it back on the lot. Every effort wasmade to save the old tree, but to no avail.There just wasnt room for both buildingand tree. It had to be cut down. But the telephone company didnt let the matter rest there. After discussion with the local Womens Club and Garden Club, it was decided to take cuttings from the tree. These were placed in hot-houses to sprout, and when they are large enough to transplant, they will be given to the people of Frankfort. The lovely ginkgo treewill live again—multipliedmany, many times to bringpleasure to future genera-tions of the children ofFrankfort, Kentucky. Andwhen

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