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Identifier: belltelephonemag17amerrich (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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of Vermont. HURRICANE. FLOOD. TIDAL WAVE. FIRE.These are the Four Horsemen of Destruction which Na-ture turned loose last month to ride in swift fury across thenorth-eastern part of this country. Behind them they leftstricken some of the most thickly populated and highly indus-trialized sections of the nation, and some of the most beautiful.While not at any one time and place did all four march flankto flank, their path—whether singly, paired, or three abreast—was marked by loss of life (the toll now approaches 700); bydestruction of homes and property; by damage to business andindustrial structures, to utility plants and systems, to rural andagricultural areas, to every means of communication. Wherewent these forces, there devastation never before experiencedin that part of the world remained. There remained, inevitably, a wreckage of telephone plantwhich confronted the Bell System with the greatest test it hasever been called upon to face: a test of its organization, of its 213
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214 THE BELL SYSTEM MOBILIZES men and women, of its resources of equipment and supplies—of its ability to keep lines of communication open under incon-ceivably difficult circumstances and to restore the service overa vast territory as quickly as the recuperative powers of anation-wide System make possible. The meeting of that test is the story which the followingpages try—most inadequately—to tell. What Happened In and To Eight StatesThere was, to begin with, rain. It came down intermit-tently at first, then steadily, for several days—beginning, inNew England and eastern New York, on Saturday night, Sep-tember 17. Suddenly—unexpected, unforeseen—there were,along the hilly watersheds, floods. Tributaries spilled theiroverflow into every low place, hurried their bulk of racingwater into the bigger rivers of the region, and, almost overnight—there was a flood. Strangely, it was the little rivers —the lovely New England streams beloved of trout-fishermen—which did the gr

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