The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-12-30
LADIES AT TELEPHONE
OFFICE ENTERTAIN
Delightful Entertainment Given BY
Local Operators OF Telephone
Company Last Night At Telephone
Building. Building Charmingly
Decorated: From Top To Bottom.

Through the thoughtfulness and
generosity of Mrs. Frank Madison
Dick, of this city, the young ladies
at the local office of The Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co., were
Cuakled to give very delightful en-
tcrtainment last night at the Tele-
phone building. 1t has been the
custom of Mrs Dick ever since she
has lived in Cambridge to remember
the young ladies at the office each
Christmas. This year the young lad
les talked the matter over and decld-
ed to give an entertainment with the
generous check which they received
and the event last night was the re-
suit of their meditations. j
After reaching the decision to havs
the entertainment the next~step was
to procure official permission to use
the building and this being secured
the young ladies set to work with a
will and soon had every arrangement
completed. Every operator is en-
tiuled to fifteen minutes rest perloc
i'll the morning and afternoon-some
thing on the order of the fifteen
minutes recess that the children gel
at school-and these rest periods
were dubbed together and given to
some of the young ladies' so that
they might have the necessary TIME
required for decorating the building
The decorations of cedar, holly,
ruistletoe ported plants, ferns, ETC.,
were carried out in a red and green
color scheme from the basement,
where the good things to eat were to
be found in great abundance, to the
second floor where good old Santa
Claus had erected and decorated a
beautiful Christmas tree.
70 one entering the building, who
was unaware of what was going on
it seemed impossible that the home
of one of the great public service
utilities could be so artistically and
arranged AS a usual
thing there is no one to do such
things, the interest of the employees,
aside from their work, is ALI center
ed elsewhere than at the building
where they work day after day. But
the situation was different here; it
lust seemed like one great big family
home, where everyone was interest
ed in making things just as nice and
attractive as could be; where each
and every one of the employees tried
to make things just as happy and
congenial for the others as 1t was
possible; where the home-like spirit
prevailed and all OF the young ladies
seemed just like sisters, ready to
help each other in any way they
could.
With this condition existing little
wonder that happy hearts and hands
accomplished in what seems a very
short time the tremendous amount
of work that had to he done before
things were in readiness for the eve
rings entertainment.
There are three departments at
Practically every branch office OF
telephone company, the traffic. COM
posed of the young ladies who COM
rose the operating staff, VINO re-
ceive the calls and make the con
nections necessary for two persons
10 talk. A whole volume could be
written about their good qualities
gracious! Just think of sitting for
hours and receiving calls, of answer
ing pleasantly all of the cross anu
querulous people who use the tele-
phone; those who are always IN q
q eat hurry to get call and are
very slow in answering
che; those who, peeyed with some
orc else, try to take their spite out
on the. operator. all kinds of people
in all kinds of humors, and, despite
thS fact, at 1east at the Cambridge
office there is always patience. gen.
tleness and courtesy and the service
is the best there is in the world.
The other two departments are the
PLANT" department which has
charge of the keeping the mechanical
end of the business in operating
shape, installing telephones, string
ing wires, making repairs and the
hundred and one things that come vi
in the course of the day, and ther
there inthe Commercial" depart
rlent which has charge Of keeping
the financial end of the business II
operating shape, for without collec1
tions, contracts, bookkeeping, etc.
neither of the other two departments
could be kept running.
The entertainment was given b!
the young ladies Of the Traffic" De
partment Miss Mabel Marshall II
charge, and every detail OF 1t wa:
complete. Upon entering the build
iEg the strains of sweet music greet
cd ones hearing and then came
hearty welcome from the happ!
hostesses, all of whom seemed II
have the knack of personally eX
tending welcome.
There was not an idle moment th'
whole time. Down in the basemen
there had been provided a supply O
g0od things to eat including cake
candy, ice cream, nuts, fruits and de
licious fruit punch for the thirst.
ores. Up on the second floor tn
commercial office had been cleared o
desks, chairs, fling cabinets and al
other furniture and this afforded
splendid place for dancing, Will
! seated just within the doors to tn
room, Stewards orchestra was fur
nishing such music that many VIII
thought they had forgotten how t
trip the light fantastic found them
selves young again and goln
through the mazes and intricacies
the one-step and other moder
| dances while some who had neVe
| danced declared they would lear
and be ready for the next entertain
| Itent
| Up in the rest room beautitr
| Christmas tree had been erected W
on which were many gifts and late
III the evening Santa Claus appeare
with basket just running over wit
ioyous reminders of the holiday sea
son there was a gift suggestive
tho hobby" of each of the youn
ladies, while Manager Carly receive
a baby rattle to help him entertai
his little girl during the wee sma
hours of the morning during the
walk around the house, and Distri
Traffic Chief Wingrove received
fine little boy to play with nls hit
girl. Upstairs there was card tabl
ana games so that those who did n
) dance or who preferred an anus
mcnt less strenuous could engage