Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-07
PHONE SERVICE
is RE-INSTALlEl
Wcrkmen Called From Job Fri
-day-What Was Done AS Re-
suit of Big Fire

a. 4 me -EsiSC fNnaln street Ire IdSC WoeI
put out of commission more than 4G(
telephones in the easternapart Of the
city and all of the service in that PAR
OF the county and 7necessitateol the
re-establishment of three of the hugo
50-foot poles, the re-installing -cf
more than 800 feet of cable and tho
splicing. Of more than 1,GOO wires
most of which had to be shipped
! from Louisviffe,\ and the work was
; completed and the phone system was
again in complete working order IL
F; . little. more than SO hours.
This emergency, presented only by
an accident of this character, calls for
much work, immediate work and worl.
Of u very careful mature During the
entire time there was delugc o.
rain and the small army Of men call
ed upon to perform their duty re
CARELESS of the weather, worked I'M
falteringly throughout the ordeal
for such it was.
Before the city firemen had ceased
their work Superintendent III. P Har-
ris, of the Cumberland Telephone g.
Telegraph company, realized what nc
was up against. He wired headquar-
tors for instructions. He got then.
They were to the effect that he Gin
stall new service as soon as possible"
This work had already been started
The crew of men from the Winches-
tcr-Richmond cable line 4 We're sent
for and transferred to the local scerc
of operations. There were lirene,:
and others who wsre set to work
Night and day they toiled, and in the
meantime. the material was ordered
from Louisville with which to build
the cable lines. They could not be
gotten here at that time except by
truck, and it was rushed through
The approximate loss to the COM
pany will be $500. Fortunately the
company had all necessary material
on hand and there was no delay in
assembling it, filling the order and
rushing it to this city.
l.
charge of the cable work from tina.
city which is soon to connect with
Richmond, had his men upon the
scene soon after the order came IN.
He is both an expert lineman and
electrician, and handled his men and
the new work line a veteran.
1t is said that Claude Parker, an
other Winchester lineman, did sene
of the best and quickest work Of his
career during the emergency work.
and has been cOmplimented by repre-
sentatives of the company. The fact
that practically all the county and
city to the east Of the Earring mill
are furnished talking facilities thru
this line the giving of these lines
special attention, which was done.
The burned poles were taken down
while others were otdreed and en-
route to the city. The wires, more
than 1000 in number, had to be splic-
ed. This was but one of the features
of the work, then the stringing OF
the heavy cable after the wire had
been spliced and installed, was an
other. The prompt resumption OF
service, when the seemingly inTum-
cradle difficulties arising in sucf,
cases were 'wrestled with, has been
commented upon. All wires and con-
nections had to undergo the usual}
test before being dismissed from the
attention of the workmen.
The work of finishing" after the
installation of the new service was
just completed and the extra work |
men have been called from the job
1t is said to have been the most COM
plete and prompt, where so many in !
tricacies were evident, recorded in
this part of the country for some time j
and those in charge, ever to the most
minor part, arsereceiving just and ap-
preeiated compliments.