The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-26

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service. Men are rushed to the
scene at once from the nearest tel
ephone exchange.
Once in the field, the men who
arrive at just about that point in
the road where they have been noti-
fled the damage is, may find it i'm
possible TO discover the exact spot
of trouble. So it is that any one
driving along the road out of Chand-
Ter might be surprised to see a man
high on the top of telephone pole,
talking loudly, though no one else
is in sight. This man is talking
with the nearest telephone office,
to the wire chief manipulating the
galvanometer there.
Locates Trouble"
Through temporary connection
that he makes at the wires near the
top of the poles he receives instruc-
tions from the man in the office
as to just how far away he is
from the trouble" Finding the
strings he pulls them off and puts
back into. service the hundreds of
miles OF wire lying idle, the wires
running between Oklahoma City and
Muskogee.
Such work on the part of the
wire chief and of the man in the
field marks the work that has been
carried on during the last week to
repair the severe and costly dam
age suffered during the recent sieet
storms by the telephone people.
This is part of the work contin-
ually done by the company to keep
it's wires in condition for traffic,
task often rendered extremely diff
ficult by the popularity of the in
juries suffered.
What do you think of a man,
who, walking along with his rifle
and wishing to practice, sights at
the leaden telephone cable, strung
he is a good marksman the bullet
enters the cablA and puts out of
commission, three or four or five
hundred wires," growled the wire
chief in the Pioneer building, as he
recalled some of the trouble that
has fallen to his lot recently. Or,
you can get a good idea of how
much work is required from us and
how expensive this work is to the
company. if you realize that when
ever a farmer burns his fields, our
poles, if in the fields, are sure to
suffer If they don't topple over i'm
mediately and then happen to es-
cape attention the first heavy wind
storm snaps them off. Then our
wires fall entang,ed 10 the ground
and all direct intercourse between
two cities is at an end, until the
repair crew hurries to the scene.
Calls over these circuits are then
switched in roundabout directions.
Due to Misinformation.
Another peculiar trouble occurs
when there is lightning storm.
Many people, ignorant of the mech
anism OF the telephone instrument,
take their receivers off the hook
while the storm is in progress. They
do this in the belief that it elimin-
ates all possibility of damage by
way of the telephone ron lightning.
What actually occurs is that con.
stant light is shown on our switch
board. The operator answers this
light, the usual signal for service
and receives no answer. This wire
is then called to the attention of the
Hospital crew who must treat it
as though it was put out of COM
mission by the wind and storm. The
wire then takes its turn in receiy-
ing the attention of the 'touble'
; men. Now when the storm is over
the subscribers put their receivers
back on the hook, and find that they
receive no answer from central
They Immediately attack the tele-
phone company and its service. AL
the day and night following the
storm the men work hurriedly TO
restore the service to normal con
dtion and find to their disgust that
the greater percentage of wires
turned over to them as in trouble
are all right That unnecessary
= work has been caused by the sub
scribers' actions. These are some of
the troubles that come to us who
work night and day to keep open
= the telephone service, the highway
of wire transmission of speech
Oklahoman.
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