The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
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That was too much OF a Jolt for me,
and L told him to hold on to the ticket
Tor minute While went out to see a
man. l went out and took a drink and
tried to figure whether the man was four
Hush1ng or whether looked any greener
than / felt" Then I came back and tried
TO get my roll out of my pocket, but it
wouldn't come, and finally [ sat around
and watched the report come in, and put
me on the black list If Lillian K didn't
win at eco to I. and the only man on If
was a little hump-backed- shoe pirate
with HIS box undet his arm and a dollar
IN dimes, 'nfcSels and coppers. >"
Horses are all right for hoodoo on
the Wire said the young operator, 'but
they don't finish one, two, three with
women. 1t was a woman made me quit
good Job down in Damascus last spring
because 1 didn't have the nerve to stay
In the same town with her Damascus,
was a nice little railroad town in South
Ohio, and 1 had a nice, soft six-day Job
in the little Jerk-water office there with
one other operator. We were pretty hot
things in society. One night We foated
in to see a nice family we knew up town,
and there we were introduced to Miss
Callahan, from Cincinnati. Well. she
wasn't so old, but she was half as
ugly as any other six women I ever saw
But after awhile there was some singing
and she did spiel at the piano, and she
could sing like a bird. That took my
partner right off the bat, and afterward,
while we were sitting around Ginning,
he telegraphs me from across the room
on the arm Of his chair, Say, old man,
amt she peacherino2 1 was sitting
with my chin in my hand, and 1 taps
back against my cheek, She's pretty clear
in the pipes, but that face would crack
stove lids! The freckle-faced girl was
sitting with her hand resting out on the
table. and what do you think If she
didn't make a switch motion with her lit
tie finger like she was opening q key
and wire back Of me in Phillips code, IF
you think it, why don't you say it out
1oud?"
DOCKED SIXTY-NINE HOURS.
81 haven't much use for women oper-
ators myself" said the poolroom oper-
ator ''but 1 sure did see one of them
get even with herself while I was work
ing in Kansas City, just before the last
strike. There was trouble brewing in
the office then, and it didn't help matters
any when they brought up a woman from
down somewhere in the swamp lands Of
Arkansas to take the place of a man that
got fired for cursing the division super
intendent over the wire under the impress
sion that he was a green office boy fool
ing with the key. Everybody was sore
on the woman, of course, and everybody
was looking for her to make a break
counting her messages There had been
a good deal Of trouble in the office over
having messages checked wrong, and the
order was posted that the operator MAX
Ing a mistake thereafter would be locked
an hour for each word that was wrong.
well, this blamed woman was slower
than molasses In March, but She was
dead careful, and she wouldn't make a
mistake in checking to please anybody.
Finally one day there was message of
about ten words came In from Omaha, a
notice of a bank stockholders meeting or
something of that sort, single message
for siXty-nine different addresses This
Arkansas swamp angel happened to take
1t, and she likewise happened to make a
mistake in counting the words. And as
the same mistake was naturally In all the
messages she was locked siXty-nine
hours, and when 1 left there in the fall
she was still working 1t out"
''Oh, you can always figure on getting
even one way or another" remarked the
press operator. 81 laid for the telegraph
editor of the morning paper down in Jack
sonVille nearly q year before I got him.
I was taking the A. P. report down there,
and this bird with the blue pencil always
had some fault to find with 1t, whether
there was anything wrong or not. 1 stood
it till the night of the 31st of March, and
then 1 thought I'd try taking fall out
of him. 1t was along toward In the
morning, before the report closed up for
the night, so when I got 80 good night
on the report 1 composed little tele-