The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-07-16
TELEPHONES IN ACKNOWLEDGES.
system Being Used to Protect Forest
Reeion from Damage by Fire.

New York is using the telephone tins
season to protect the beautiful Adlron-
dacll region from the forest fires winch
last wear proved very disastrous IN the
upper part of the state. and to af1ord
greater degree of convenience to the many
civ neople who find the Adirondacks
pleasant place to spend their summer va
cation James s. Whipple, forest, fish,
and game commissioner, has charge OF IN
stalling the protective mountain telephone
system which, it is believed, will be a
GREAT benefit to that section.
The idea of using telephones as an ald
in fighting forest fires IS by no means
new one. The United States government
already has an extensive system OF noun
tam telephones in the national forests,
over which it holds sway Already many
disastrous fires have been checked by the
aid that has been brought through the
,se nf the telephone in the national Tor
ests of the far west. The government
system of forest telephones was installed
by the Western Electric company, which
is also furnishing the telephones ana Inc
material for the AdiIondacks system.
The New York Herald in dispatch
from Lake Placid on this subject recently
had the following to say: !,
CAS- the result OF conference WIN
George A. Stevens, proprietor oil the oteV-
ems House who is familiar with every
inch of the forests about here. and with
Assemblvman James Shea OF this village
Commissioner Whippe has now definitely
decided to install his forest fire protective
service for this portion OF the Adlrondacks
on the summit of Mount Whlteface IN
stead of on the summit of Mount Saddle
back, as first proposed. The idea is 10
RIM a telephone line to the summit,
build a permanent shelter there and m
stall dav and night lookout for fires, AZ
the least sign Of one, word Is at once TO
be communicated to the district likely TO
furnish the nearest available fre hghtllg
force.
''Whiteface which has an elevation OF
/ e6S feet above the sea, and from the
summit of which on clear days Lake
Champlain the St Lawrence and even
fhe spires of Montreal and other equally
distant points can be discerned. IS the
MAINTAIN most frequently climbed by Wis
tors to the Adirondacks. Heretofore
there has been no means OF commuhlcaI-
ing with friends making the ascent oIner
than by the uncertain method OF llasllilg
back from the summit the sun L a"Sa vs.
rocket mirrors With telephone SNs-
tenn extending to the summit; ready
means of communicating with anxious
friends in the village below, the ascent OIL
Whiteface will become even more popu
lar this season than it has been in the
MAST and in time. beneath the stress OF
increasing business the bald knop Oh
Whiteface NAV blossom forth with a
Switchboard and an up-to-date Hello
The wire, which is to be strung up
tho side of The mountain upon the trees
and over the rocks, has already "a, arrived |;
and the work of putting in the line Will
begin next week. Final arrangements
we're decided upon at a meeting OF o9m-
missioner Whipple and several OF ms llfe
s I",I telephone service is to be placed
on ell'it the summit Of St. Regis mountain
un the st. Regis chain of lakes. and
this this obviates the need of service on
Saddlebacll mountain.