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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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trated by hischoice of BillLevys sister for hishelpmeet. A womanlarge of stature, asalso of heart andgood nature, shewillingly ste p p e dinto the breach tohelp out her broth-ers by t a Iv i n gcharge of the culin-ary depart ment.Under the stress ofthe unexpected ar-rival of such ahorde of guests aless capable womanmight have beendismayed, a lessgenial one mighthave balked. For-tunately for themen s h e didneither. But witha kindly word forall and an ever-cheerful smile sheplied the art ofwhich she is a mistress and set the tablesfor twenty-two extra guests at that firstdinner. It was but a very short timeuntil that company of storm-harried menwere warmed and cheered by an abund-ance of hot biscuits, potatoes, carrots,macaroni, beef-stew and tea, topped offwith real pumpkin pie. In spite of wetclothing and wet feet these kindly min-istrations of Mrs. Hepner were potent insending all forth after lunch, heartenedfor the struggle witli tlie elements whiclihad in nowise abated their fury.
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Much time might be spent in detailingthe happenings of the afternoon, tellingof the benumbing wind that, unob-structed, lashed the men who workedaloft on the steel towers; how those whotugged at rope and tackle from theground felt their fingers growing stiff andever stiffer, or ven-turing to look up-ward had eyesblinded by snow;how Mr. Martinand Mr. Steelewere everywheredirecting the workand, when neces-sary, lending ahelping hand; howat one time itseemed that prog-ress was definitelyblocked by the lossof a small half-inchpin out of a tempo-rarily dismantledstring of insula-tors; how a sheep-ish lineman finallyproduced the pinfrom the depths ofa pocket wherepreviously repeat-ed search hadlulled to reveal itto cold stiffenedfingers; how theline was finally se-cured in place andcleared by lantern light long after thecloud-filtered rays of the sun had ceasedprosecuting their system of indirectlighting; and how at last the job wasfinally wound up by coiling again thatlong, heartbreaking r

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