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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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toll circuits to Camp Wallace, acoast artillery replacement center nearGalveston. Four miles of this toll lead runsthrough a typical Gulf Coast swamp—a swamp thats bad enough normally,but that had become soupy muckthrough weeks of steady rain. It wastoo thin for trucks, and too thick forboats. So three teams of mules werehired, three wagons were strippeddown to wheels, axles, and poles, and the necessary crossarms and hard-ware were hauled in. So bad was themud that 12 crossarms were a fullload for a team, and even then themules would play out. They wouldlie down to rest, and the men wouldhave to hold their coats under themules noses to keep them fromdrowning! To get in the wire, thereels were set up on the highway, andone strand would be hitched to a mule.Then the mule would drag that onewire through the bog, the reel unwind-ing as he pulled. Just to complicate matters, at onepoint the gangs ran into a few mos-quitoes ... a few thousand, that is.The men were already wearing boots.
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General Mud Takes a HandCaterpillar traction, and caterpillar mount for the cable reel, helped to get cable in on schedule at Fori Leonard Wood, Mo. 190 Bell Telephone Magazine NOVEMBER slickers, and gloves, but to protecttheir faces they made hoods of slickercloth, cutting holes to see and breathe.It was probably the weirdest-lookingconstruction gang on record, but it wasbetter than being eaten alive. JVluD didnt cause all the chuckles,though. One day at expanding FortRiley, Kan., a building contractorrushed in and said he had cut a tele-phone cable. There was no sign oftrouble, and he was so assured, but heinsisted he knew a telephone cablewhen he saw it. Investigation showedit was a telephone cable all right—apiece of underground that had beenabandoned back in World War days I The prize story also goes to FortRiley. Shortly after the selectees hadstarted coming into the fort, a longdistance call came through for aprivate named approximately JohnSmith, outfit unknown. As there wer

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