Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-02-27
THE TELEPHONE GIRL

MODERN advances have reIegated the Paul Reveres of
1s4 history to the grave No longer have they place in
the annals of fame and the demand for monuments has passed
into the echong halls of time The telephone girl the
modern heroine She Jennie the JOB gifted wit pose
and grit that renders her the arber of life and death En-
throned in lonely office listening to the tngng of the bells
watching the dropping of the little lights that denote calls
from distant homes she is judge and jury at hours OF the
night when watchmen sleep and guardians of the peace
lapse into sumber
to the resourceulneSs of the gil the switchboard She
does not sleep Her Mgs long and wearsome but she
is there with intent waiting for the patrons every want
Doctors calls police demands fire pers and thousand and
one other urgent appeals find her alert and active FROM the
day of the Jamestown food to the present her services have
expanded and public appreciation grows until there less
complaint and more appreciation of the real merit OF the OPP
orator who sits enthroned in distant Office keeping watch
full eye on the affairs of the community over whose deSnes
she pesdes Frequently owing to electric disturbances the
service not always of the best and then the customer
prone blame the operator but inquiry in such cases
usually develops the fact that the real trouble mechanical
and not the fault of personal negligence.
The past week has furnished notable examples OF quick
perception tantamoun intuition that compliments the in
egence OF the average operator In Iowa the other day an
operator frustrated bank robbers by notifying the Sheriff
that somebody cutting the wires She had no means OF
knowing this to be fact but she heard certain ngng or
vibration that led her to believe that something wrong at
suited in saving the banks funds Another instance OF ceer
lily found in the of express agent in California who
had been murdered in the early hours of the morning The
local operator summoned help because she could not gain
reply to test call and her bunch proved all right for the
in charge of the station found weteng in his blood at
the last gasp OF his life but able to tell the story of the attack
The extraordinary floods of the past week in Southern
California furnished test that showed the mette of many OPP
orators who remained at their posts calling aid and issuing
warnings those in the path of destructive storm waters
Some of these girls self poised and vgant stuck to their
posts through tempest of cyconc fury that threatened mo-
menariy to compass their destruction but they failed
Not quaed before the duties of the hour and in most
cases the girls eosed and wgant stuck to their posts
through tempest of cyconc fury that threatened moment
ary to compass their destruction; but they failed Not
one quaed before the duties of the hour and in most
the girls exceeded the requirements of their positions by
manning at their swtchboards when all Others had fed
Some day an inspired painter sculptor will immortal
ze himself by porrayng the heroine of the switchboard in
stead of the man at the gun.
Nothing is a day in June, soloquized down