The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-14

brothers and wives home to stricken
slowed ones. along with other messages
death, have been held up at the fling
point and at relay atatlons. and sub
jected to delay because thousands Of
men have deserted the offices on a
sympat hctic strike.
In the business world there is loss.
not alone in the stock jobbing market.
| but in other channels of trade. all duo
to the suspension of wire business. In
no strike does the burden fall more
heavily upon the public than in this.
Yesterday a telegram flashed through
| the Postal Office from point in the
south reading like this:
Your wife cnnnot live twenty
fo:'r hours. Trying to Keep her
alive till you come. Hasten
Inc message had been started to a
lefty IN the strike infected region. but.
there was no way by which II could
/ be delivered. 1t Went from here to
| fhlladeiphia, and its fate, after reach
/ ihg ina point, was uncertain. 1t was
,hereiy a sample Of those which have
peen delayed within the past forty
c'silt hours. In cases OF this kind the
companies have made every effort ia
sehd as promptly as the limited facili-
ties VIII warrant, but It is a chance
and gamble ali the way through ana
dying people die while thousands ouit
the keys
The strike. OF course. has seriously
affected the Postal and western ITninn
companies 1t was felt here before
e ave i"r ,a operators walked out. but
even when they had left enough h elp
was secured to give some semblance
Of q service. Richmond had been less
ssseriouslS crippled than the others, for
I,,s.i ,,at
subest Se dsiSy Sips wa1 being sur
prlsing however, to find the swiftness
WITH which some messages were trans
mitted All had TO be put on the
| sending hooks In the order received,
Ply as tar as possible the death and
n az n,a messages received the right
oi way. Inc management felt that 1t
was DONG service to. humanity BY
adopting this plan. a view which tho
PUBLIC would take If 1t had been on
ways possible to get through a tele
gram in time for mother 10 reach a
| dying child.
NO INTERRUPTIONS or
TELEPHONE SERVICE
| The long distance telephone service
sraph s hI way arssa By the tes
our business shows" said Manager
Norris last night I'VE do not even
know that the telegraphlc service has
4 been interrupted. ii has been norma
and there is no intimation that any
trouble will occur"
The Southern Bell and the American
| telephone and Telegraph Company as
Manager Morris expla lned. are not jr
| competition with the regular telegram
| companies. AT the general station
/ here there Is a wire running 10 AL.
j lnnta. used for tclephoning and tcIc.
! graphing. the two separate message.
i going over the same wire at the So rnf
/ time The latter is used by the com
pany for testing purposes, and for tht
I transmission of It's own business
\ This being the case, the telephone
Service over long distance wires vii
Igo on as usual and there Is no likeli-
hood that the operators VIII be called
tout for sympathetic reasons. In tn,
first place, they are not members o
ANY union. they are not affiliated 1r
'any way. with the strikers. and the,
ARE attending to their own affairs
without Worrying themselves over wha
Us happening in the telegraph offices.
"While the business to-day was abou
normal, as have stated" said Manager
Morris, the service was excellent.
had occasion to put in several call.
myself, and the response was prompt
III do not make this statement for nd
. vertising purposes, but simply relate
the actual conditions"
In an address before the commercla
:. Photographers Union OfRichnond Mon
day night, An operator stated that II
1879 he WAS a new man In the Office q
II the Western Union Telegraph Company
at Lousvilie, receiving SIS a month