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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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ruction and main-tenance. The lines were clear oftrees, sagging wires, broken insula-tors, and similar faults, he pointsout. There is no question but thatthese factors had an enormous partin our reputation for good service,built up in the days when competingforces were actively at work. Philadelphia to Chicago The third old timer, the line be-tween Philadelphia and Chicago, wasconstructed as one project betweenApril and December 1901. FromNewtown Square, outside of theQuaker City, its 35-foot chestnutpoles carried twenty copper wires asfar as the test station at Dallastown,Pa., 60 miles to the west. Beyondthat, only ten copper wires ran on30-foot chestnut poles into Brushton,outside of Pittsburgh, which wasreached in July. From here the samenumber of wires was carried oncedar poles of similar height intoMorrell Park, the test and operatingstation outside of Chicago. By thistime the iron zero wire was no longerused. The last remaining section of theoriginal Philadelphia-Chicago line—
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Down by the Pennsylvatiia Railroad tracks in Baltimore^ this gang paused to let thephotographer record the J act that poles were really long at the tur>i of the century 1952 Old LD Lines Are Finally Retiring 105 from Marion to Lo-gansport, Ind. — wasdismantled last Octo-ber. Good Old Days The neat reports ofthe Engineers Depart-ment in New York,kept in black bindersstamped in gold, re-veal many details aboutthese lines and in-clude items unfamiliarto present-day account-ants. Usually typed,but often in fine hand-writing, they lay bare the anatomy ofa horse-and-buggy era in telephony.The team and driver so importantto such enterprises then were usuallyhired, it seems, for $65 a month.There were entries as well for thereel wagon, the board hunter,the dinner wagon and driver andfor shoeing many a horse. Gangleaders were ordinarily paid $35 andboard a month and their men $30and board a month—for the stand-ard ten-hour day, six-day week, ofcourse. Not to mention the fre-quent and ve

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