The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-05

it is one of his own countrywomen
answering him.
There are Eulalie Audet Of Jamaica
Plain, Mass, and JEANNE Bouchet of
San Francisco, and Cordelia Dupis of
Rolla, \. D., and Sara Fecteau, West
Lebanon, n. H., and Leontine g. La
moreuX Of Lowell and Rose Langelier Of
Lynn, Mass, and Louise lie Breton of
San Francisco and Suzanne Prevot of
New Berkeley, Cal, and Minerva Ma
deau of Boston, and Bertha Plamondon
of San Francisco, and Suzanne Pre-
vot of New York and Georgette Schaerr
of Omaha and Agnes Theriault of
Iresque Isle and Marie Gagnon of
| Grafton, y. DIFF girls with these
names didn t speak French like a ma
tive it would be because they had been
stolen from home in their cradles.
Winifred Hardy comes from Mon
treal and in spite Of her English name IS
| as French as when it comes to talking
! that tongue as any of the unit. Marie
/ lie Blanc is from Montreal too, and 50
/ is Alice Ward The chief operator
with the group can boast of no French
| either about her name or her home
place, for she is Just Grace d. Banker
Of Passaic, n j., but she S right on
the Job when it comes to ''Oui oui-
! ing over the wire, and the whole New
York Telephone company IS ready to
back her to hand out the voice with
q polite French smile that would de-
ceive Sarah Bernhard into thinking
she came from Paree.
Supervisor Elisabeth Hunter of Med
ford, Mass; Supervisor Minnie Rich
ards of Van Buren,, Ne; Operators Me-
lima Adam OF Swansea Mass; Almeria
Capistran of North Yakima. Wash.
Estellc Caron of Brockton, Mass; 10
sephine Davis of New Orleans, Marie
l.. Ford of Worcester, Esther Fresno
Of New York, Charlotte Gyas of Yon
kers, Helen Naismith OF Seattle, Fran
ces Paine Of Bronxville, Fanny Var
: Balkon Of New York and Mrs Clara
! Whitney of Butler, Pa, make up thu
unit.
Several of them are college girls wh'
Ipaid special attention to languages
F., One way and another all speak Frencl
fiuently, and they II need It. for Perish
ing's lines are connected up with thos
Of the French government and falls
lenses and mispronunciations won
90. Also they are chosen of course 70
their excellence as telephone operator
: and for their self command
From the chief operator to the lii
: tlest operator all smiled sweetly yes
{ terday when asked what they would d
I If Gen. Pershing asked them for tn
I French war office and several lieuter
: ants Got their wires crossed and tn
I Germans dropped bomb on the svitcf
I board all at one and the same momen
; They smiled in rather superior wa
! and replied with one voice
Il why, of course, we 4 given Gel
7 Pershing his number and we Il untal
gle the wires with what was left of til
a switchboard and we d warn the rest c
X the front that a German airship va
Y on the rampage and had blown Us III
+ hut We could be depended on to site
y to our post
o And all the elderly women sittin
o around the Martha Washington sighe
D and looked at the signal corps hat coI
rs on the trim sailor hats of the unit. tel
h phone transmittcr embroidered on Il
u brassards of the Junior operators al
I the yellow streaks Of lightning on Il
ID chief operator 5 arm, and they sghe,
"Well, it is good to be young and
or be serving America in this time
he need