Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14732124556)

Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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1 Mien - 1 _, • „. 1 „«n:„„ ;„ spread out over an area trom Longfr; and their equipment began rolling in F 6 to New Jersey from other Bell com-panies which had been less hard hitand could spare them: the Chesa-peake and Potomac, the Ohio Bell,the Bell of Pennsylvania, and, laterin the week, the New York and theSouthern New England Companies.They were a welcome sight to thebeleaguered New Jersey Bell men,and, because they had their tools andknew their stuff, they could be greetedin one breath and given their assign-ments in the next. Island to the Canadian border.There had long been in existence1here, as in all Bell Companies, anemergency plan to meet just such adisaster; and bv Sunday morning9,500 men—the normal Sunday ros- ter is less than 1,000—were at workthroughout the Companys threeareas, battling against odds that oftenincluded snow, sleet, and freezingtemperatures, to get lines back inservice. By the middle of that week,all but a few were again in workingorder.

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More than telephone plant was damaged here 95°-5i Bell Companies and the Weather 245 That Sunday was a day that opera-Drs will not soon forget, for the•affic averaged probably 70 percentbove normal. On the following dayn all-time record was set in Nework Citv with a total of 20,087,000ills. rouble in New England \T Connecticut, which is served byle Southern New England Tele-hone Company, more than 80,000ilephones were victims of that Satur-ays storm, mostly along the Coastnd in the central part of the state.is service was brought back to nor-lal in the upper part of the state,len were transferred to the shorereas, and by the following Wednes-ay night, a convoy of 30 trucks, withleir crews, was off for New Jersey.One of the most unusual incidents of the whole storm period was theconversion of a telephone central of-fice from manual to dial operation,exactly as scheduled, at 7 A.M. onSunday, November 26—the dayafter the gale. The event, in Wal-lingford, Connecticut, had long beenpl

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