The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-13
CAPRICE OF THE AURORA.
Peoples One Young Mans Mind With
Spooks.
From the Boston Globe,

From the Boston Globe.
Zone of the curious features about IN
duction," said wire chief at the Western
Union yesterday. while explaining the mys-
teries of Equals, duplexes, conductors and
the big switch to bevy of bright young
women from a suburban seminary, sis tue
mischief it plays with the wires.
sit is more apparent on the telephone,
the construction OF which is so extremely
sensitive and the current generated 50 deli
cate, that 1t is easily overpowered especially
where the line is strung In the immediate
neighborhood of a telegraph or an electric
light wire.
Under these circumstances it becomes
an easy prey to their superior currents.
Try to use 1t for conversation, and you'll
hear anything from the whirr of the ma
emery in the power house, to the impatient
Morse of the undecided girl operator in
! some far-awsy station asking the sending
operator to repeat that address slowly"
"Are girl operators always inpatient
questioned one of the chiefs listeners.
"Well-er-not always" replied the
chief, seeing that he had gone a bit too far.
Sometimes it's the fellow at the other
end. But to return to induction.
"At intervals between the strange out-of-
place noises that come TO your ear, will be
heard the angry hello of the one you are
trying to do business with at the other end
You let him know that he is heard and
prepare to listen to his message when the
distant rumble of an electric car sounds uns
pleasantly in your hearing.
"Hhen it is, and the chief looked at the
young woman who asked about the i'm
patience of girl operators) that even girls
are angered into saying things less sweet
than prayers, and not quite 80 soothing as
June twilight, and before the imp Undue
| tion has finished with his pranks, up 90
both receivers to their respective hooks, and
two mortals mentally curse the man that
invented the device.
The same mischief is played with tele,
graph wires, but, Of course, it's not quite
so bothersome, for operators know the ma
ture of the trouble and watch their chance
to get word in between the Interruptions
But its no uncommon or even strange
phenomenon for an operator on one wire
to be able at times to read the sending of
some out-of-the-way sender on altogether
another circuit
Speaking of that reminds me of an Incl.
dent that happened in a little country town
not far from Boston.
1.-TWO young men, one Of whom had been
student at the Institute of Technology
and had daboled more or less into electrical
studies, concluded to string a telephone line
between their separate abodes,
"Well, they succeeded in putting up q
tolerable good line and enjoyed their sight
unseen conversations hugely. There were
no telegraph electric light or trolley wires
to create induction. and their enjoyment
went on uninterruptedlY until one night,
when the aurora began to shoot its spears
of purple and white in the evening sky
They knew little about the effects Of the
aurora, and neither believed IN ghosts but
the memory of the scare that one of them
received that night will remain with him
till his dying day.
at was about o'clock on this particular
evening when one Of the young men went
TO the telephone, rang the bell and placed
the receiver to his ear.
He was alone in the house and the dead
hush Of woodland midnight prevailed.
He received no reply and rang again. For
fully minute he listened and was about to
leave the telephone when a sweet almost in
audible voice came to his ear In song.
1t lasted for nearly half minute, when
1t was overcome by the notes Of piano.
thinking himself the victim OF Joke he
said, with a half hearted laugh, 'Ah, Pm on
TO you, Chauncey, you can't fool me like
that, and he would have continued but
that the same sweet voice that first at
tracted his attention came again. this time
internationally and wave like In sound, no W
swelling and then dying away to the verge
of silence.
THE piano accompaniment was palmer
this time, and il occurred to the listener
that If his friend were putting up a Job on
him he must have hired piano for the
| occasion, as there was none in his apart
ments.
Gear was growing on him like a chill,
and after one more attempt to raise his