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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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ower and light facilities were disrupted, the telephonebecame the principal medium for communi-cation between fire-fighting, relief, police,and military organizations. The story of their achievements wouldrequire volumes to tell. In this specialedition of Telephone Topics we attempt tocapture their spirit of service in highlightfashion only. While it is a story of Maine.it is meant as a tribute to every telephoneman and woman in New England whoseresponse to their public trust was unself-ishly exemplified. Complete devastation and destruction ona wholesale scale were perhaps most graphi-cally portrayed on Mount Desert Island.Here, the fabulous Bar Harbor summerresort saw destruction running up intomillions of dollars. As far as the eye couldreach on either side of the main arteriesleading into the Bar Harbor business dis-trict, virtually everything was reduced torubble . . . In the late afternoon of October 23 itbecame apparent that the fires sweeping 222 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER
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The hot breath of onrnshingfire through the forests surrounding Bar Har-bor were beyond control. A fifty-milegale whipped the furious fires into a rag-ing inferno that resisted every efifort of theemergency forces. Gradually every roadleading out of the business district wasenveloped in a blaze of flame. There wasno way out. Telephone Manager John Conti, Jr.,recognizing the severity of the situation,appealed to the Navy and the Coast Guardto send boats to evacuate the people fromthe town. Nearly 35 boats of all kinds,including two destroyers and the Coast(luard Cutter Bibb, were sent. When the town was completely sur-rounded by fire except on the ocean side,more than 2,000 people gathered on themunicipal pier for evacuation. Only asmall portion of them was taken off, how-ever, for the 50-mile gale whipped French-mans Bay into such a fury that it was im-possible to bring boats to the pier. When the fire reached two principalpoints only 400 yards from the centraloffice, the wind veered

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