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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1907)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1907. HIE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA. OltEGON. MUTED nClUQTATCC HUIILII ULflUlllLU Railro&d and Telephone Corn Make Preparation SYSTEMS GET OVERHAULING Storms and Wind Caui Transportation and Communication Companies Much Trouble and Expense Largs Crews of Men Kept in Touch for Emergency, Boiton, November 23, 1 lWAXow U the time when, all over the country, the transportation line and communicating systems are "tauteulng thing up" for the winter, The acason of menace for them li at hand. Ik for another month wind and enow end alcet and Ice wilt have put an embargo on the work of the treok layer and line bulldere, and the emergency men wilt be on duty. Each year our North American wlntera cost .11. - II . I .1.. .1 - 1 -1 graph comjtowf hundred of thousand 01 aouari,' mu wncn we nare season 01 Aha "good old-fashioned kind" the dam age rum up Into the mllllone. If It were not for remarkable organization andjngenulty the aunual lot, not alone to thote who operate public service but to those who depend upon It hourly In business and personal Ufa, would greatly exceed even these enormo'u figuru. Bo late every autumn while the last of the season' construction work la being hurried through before frott cornea, there I a general overhauling, Buty gang are ct to work rebuilding the anow shade along the railway, tighten ing bolt and brace on the bridge, re newing whatever snows aigu 01 wear which might prove ditatlrou In stress of 'storm. And the construction men of the telephone companies, In one place flniahlng up new Hue to give communl cation to aome corner of the world Wtherto Inaccessible bv wire, or to In eraa the already thick -cluttering wire are, In another place, retelling pule. tlghenlng guv, renewing cable, retiring ing clrcuita, or what-not, to rettit ao far aa human lugelulty can the atraln of the hard month to come. : Since the daya of tht pioneer there baa been do more picturesque life, per hapi, (han that of the telephone Hue builder. It I a curioua mixture of gypsy wandering and the moat exacting aort of practical work -with uen lagen lout and perfect toola a few industries niloj. (Hardy, roughandfeady fl Jow,thesd"dIggers,H w ho prepare the hole Into which pole are to be ictj the "gainer who a'rlp the big timber of their bark and fit the crossarm to their placet: the "pole setters' who wing the big tapering stick Into up right position j the "banker" who pre the earth closely about the bate of the pole until ii (tend firm and true j and the ';wlre stringers" -who, with their strange looking red wagons pull the trand of 'hard drawn copper over the crott arm where the linemen attach! them skilfully to the Insulator. There it a (mail army of them several thou sand in all constantly' moving about he country, living here In hotels and hrgtiousea, there in tents, and yon der1 in train of car that tumble oblig ingly acre the open country, careless of roadbed, rail or locomotive even of the highway ordinary , wheel-traffic seek. ' Xtiturslly, It I In the groat expenses of the West especially of the North west, and ; Southwest that the tele phone construction car lma come Into use. For miles and mile there the com municating line are carried through prairie and desert where there is scarce ly a habitation and almost never a fit hostelry, The horse required for the heavier construction work also give niO' tive oower for the crew' living quarter There are sleeping cart, with double tire of bunk on either aide and rail way lamp swinging above the aisle be' tweenj dining cars, with a cook' galley in one end and In the other a long table that serve for feasting, and, in the evening hour, for the gathering of gooi fellowship 1 and tool car U low act, "broad-tired vehicle, heavy but not too bard of draught. I To meet emergencies promptly and efficiently the Bell system haa an organ ifcatlon little known hut remarkablo in completeness and mobility. It would he neither economical nor otherwise feasible to keep a large number of big emergency erowe in waiting, for there is never any telling where "trouble" is going to atrike next. But in it regular forces ome' thins more tha'n half of the 07,000 em ployees are mon the Boll ytem has ready at all hours expert worker who can be hurried anywhere there i need o augment the local "trouble men" in Ime of an unusual demand. Ihe Amer dean Telephone and Telepraph Company, whluh operate the national long Ms tunc swic,' and therefor ha plant all over the United State, maintain time house In about fifty' of W targe oltles, and 'lies erv as emergency headquarter, In addition to the provlt lor, and all other acecworJcs for repair to take care of It own territory, fa storeroom! and yard art luppllet of poles, 'cable, wire, cros arms, Insula- tors.nud ell other acorle for repair work, Close at hand are kept truck and dorses ready to "itish" whatever I call ed for to the nearest railroad station at ny hour of day or ulght, Frequently leelnl train are chartered for tran- porting materials over long distances. And wln'ii th "trouble shooter" have been brought as dote to their work a the railroad can take them they find In waiting team to carry them the rest of the way". 1'reparednes Is the motto of the Bell snglneers, The whole country ia mapped out In districts, each district studied carefully for every detail of transporta tion, 'of bousing men and animal, of providing rations and minor supplies, It Is not unusal lu special emergencies to tn lng re-enforcements from .considerable listantes, In the cat of a blizzard de vastatlng a large area In the West, for Instance, emergency crew have been brought from east of the Alleghanlea, while floods and wind storm In th East have more titan nct been the cause of the calling of aotUtanco from a far away a Chicago. , Armed in atrange territory, the chief if the emergency gang ia not wholly without knowledge of local condition. Sitting in hi hastily Improvised head Hiurter be spreads before him a map that give the location of every pol and wire in the field of operation! and draw from hi pocket a book that In form him where among the townsmen or farmers or We netghuornood teams can be secured, food and lodging for the nier engaged, extra laborers hired, If they are needed, and many others de tails. All the necessary appliances are t hand and th work of reconstructing the clrcuita proceed with amaxing rapidity yet without the (lightest con fusion. It may be mouths before the plant can lie restored to it original per fect Ion, but it Is a question of only hour, unless in extraordinary case, before communication I returned, and generally within two or three days all ill effects have been removed so far as the subscribers' service shows. It is an effective organization, this. Instance could be multiplied almost indef lnitfc Mien a cyfclone nearly swept out of existence the thriving Ml isslnpt city of Meridian It left the public service wires there in a confused t ancle. Half the telephone line were In trouble. It was up to the Cumber land Telephone Company to put Ita ay tem in order again as toon aa pos!ble, snd over th few circuits which (till connected Median with the ouUlda world assistance was summoned from other points in, the Mississippi Valley, Within forty-eight hour after the storm th local service was entirely rehabilitated and mpld progress was being made In getting all the long distance'' line Into working condition again. Last summer, when' fire dis troyed more than half of the famous vacation resort at Old Orchard Beach in Maine, ''with' the certainty that there would be extensive demands upou the local service men from the office th New England Telephone and Tele graph Company in the neighboring cities of Portland and Biddeford wei rushed to the scene of trouble end with very little help from farther away put the damaged telephone plant into serviceable shape before the night was past. Just as the subway In New York City was nearly completed a fire occurred In one of the downtown subway stations which reached the telephone conduit ami entirely cut off from everything the "Corllandt" exchange, one of the biggest, and most Important central offices In the world. The damage was very considerable, but such are the re source of the New York Telephone Company for coping with mishap that all repair were made and complete connection restored within; twonty-four hour Again, at the time of the Kan sns City flood of half a dozen year ago the Missouri and Kansas Company'i service wa not only altogether dls abled, but it wa restored to effectiv nee mainly by the local force in sur prlslngly hor, time. The San Fran clseo earthquake demolished much of the prdperty of the Pacific- State Company, as it wa then called, in the metropolis at the Golden Gate, but really marvelous work wa done in , restoring service in the day immediately following the calamity, and the rush in which a brand new vitchboard was put together for the principal, exohange of the stricken olty is still well remembered by expert of the Western Eleotrio plant in Chicago. who had the job, in hand. Prize Puzzle ,. . .'.',".; ;,;'.'(.,; !-:""' Do You Know Our National Songs? 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It i the policy of the ateel cor poration not to crush competition by fair op foul mean. The ttoel truit ontrols about 00 per cent of the ateel and iron business of the United States, snd there ia no intention of enlarging that control We believe condition will be better wth healthy rivalry. ; ; , ? "It ia clear that the U. S. Steel Cor poration with it .extensive resouces Could use it giant strength, like other corporation to crsuh competition. But n the end would the game be worth the candle t The corporation would become an object of attack. In my judgment such a policy would be the undoing of our corporation in which billions of dol lars are invested.' Astoria Savings Bank t U V fAniil lid in 1UW.0W, Tflnrplus n4 Cndlvlded Profit ItOfXO Trensacui Oenersl Banking Business, , Inter! Paid on TUae bepostta FOUR PER CEJfT PEfil AKXtJM : " '''' Beventli and Dnan atreeta. ASTORIA, OXXGCX. ? First National Bank of Astoria, Ore ESTABLISHED 1880. Capital $100,000 1 . '''.1 - ' v ': ' . 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