Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-12-08
Where il was Hot. gE..-.


Oldest nhabilant .Creported BY tho
Brooklyn Eqg'e). as be unbutloned hi
ulster and laid bis plush cap on !tht
table, 4 don't regard it as eyeh un'
pleasantly warm. I've been out in the
hot sun all day, trying to get some heat
into my system. and tell yeu, gentle
men, in confidence, I'm BIZ chilly
yet.'
Ever seen it any warmer at this sea.
son p asked the Eag's reporter.
'Wuust. seen 10 IN the spring Of 1874
so hot that you'd think this weather was
an ice box. was building telegraph
line N South America, aadl ghas do you
think we used for poles"
Iron. perhaps
Iron ? Iron wouldn't stand a min
ute. Why the works in my watch
melted AID ran down my leg. and it
feli cool, too. cause f. was l'qmd. No,
sir iron was no more u-e than ice.
We couldn't use wood. 'cause it caught
tire as soon as exposed; 50 we used
salt. We iast squirtel stream Of salt
water straight up through q six inch
nozzle. The heat evaporltol the salt
water and left a tast rate column Of
salt. Then we made it lhe right height
by cutting it of sufficiently from the
bottom
But how would yourr your wire I?
Didn't. We jiss Yiated 1t the wal
We wanted it to 90 from the top o. &
hiIl' and the expansion run ltusht alou.
from column to column. That's shat
call warm weather, that is.'
How fast did the wires seem 10 go:'
About eighty miles an hour W,
built seven hundred milea Of telegraph
in one aiicrnooa.'
How did you keepup with 10: How
could you keep ahead and get your sal
columns mp fast enough"
We'll. cir, ihat was the simplest con
triyance ever was. We hadtwo plrall
el bars ofrallroad iron and u wagon tha
just iii tie bars. We r.veted eros
piece TO the far'ard ones and fastener
the wagon to il. Them bands expand
ed lengthways at The rat of hundred
and City miles an hour, and carried tn
wagon right along on ifs oyn tracks
We could head or wire get upa pol
and hitch on o wlra ald lletch up witt
lie end in no time. I'm saYin', gen
tlemen. it was hot in that vicinity
But the mor couldn't climb one 0
these columas?'
or course they couldn't; wouldn'
hold en-
How d.! thov take tho hllf hitcl
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them with the -'rmm?'
Not we. You can't squirt a man u
that way. Besides. the water vas bill
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