Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-29

doctor was being sought on the list kept in
another exchange the chief operator called one
of the girls who had her own car near the ex-
change and asked her to go to the address and
rush the baby to the hospital. She left her
board in charge Of a relief operator and sped
to the home and took the mother and baby
to where she could get attention and was able
to get back to her switchboard with the re-
port that the child would be all right within a
short time.
Then there was the man who stood on a
stool to fix light while he alone at home.
The stool slipped and down he tumbled. Fail
ing his arms wildly to break his fall he pulled
huge chifonier over on top of himself and
lay helpless on the floor Rousing from his
momentary daze he realized that call for
help would go unanswered. The door was
locked and no one in the house. Luckily the
telephone was near enough for him to pull It
over. When he had knocked the receiver off
the hook he shouted help"
He could not hear the operators voice and
it did not occur to him to give the obvious in
formation she was asking for, but it took only
a minute for her to locate the address and
dispatch the fire rescue squad to the scene.
The fremen soon climbed through a window
and released him, uninjured, from beneath
the piece Of furniture
OFTEN the assistance is rendered to the sur
prise OF the person in difficulty. A
woman living in the northern part of the city
called one night just after the weather had
taken on the tinge CT Fall. She gave her num-
Der and waited. The phone rang and rang,
but no answer. A minute later she called again
and was obviously very annoyed. The operator
listened when she found the woman was ex-
cited. Still no answer. The operator then
asked If she could be Of help. No, the woman
guessed not. A radiator cap had blown OF
and her living room was being flooded with
hot water. The number she gave was a
plumbers, but she couldn't raise him. Then
she hang up despairingly. The operator got
the number of the nearest plumbers and called
Them In order Five minutes later she called
the woman whose room was being flooded and
found that the plumber was fixing the radiator
already.
All kinds Of curious requests come to the
information operators and whenever they can
without interfering with the efficiency they
owe the other subscribers so cut of their way
to help they do so short while ago a
visitor at Washington hotel called informa-
tion
II came to town to see a chemist" he said
Il think his name was so-and-so, but I can't
ind 1t in the directory"
The operator looked through all her hles
and could find no such name. In the subse-
quent efforts to get what Information might
lead to identifying the chemist she learned
that the visitor needed to find his man on a
matter Of grave legal Importance The oper-
ator told him she would see what she could do
AS she found time between her other calls
in the following half hour she called prom
inent chemists and scientists throughout the
city. She asked if they had ever heard of
such man or any one with name similar
to his. Finally official Of the Bureau OF
Standards recalled that there was a chemist
living somewhere in the city with name a
little similar, but he had retired many years
ago. But it was clue. The operator looked
up his address and telephone number and
called back the visitor from out of the city
When she suggested the name he recalled
that he had been wrong and that the
she had lncatad u oraa he 1u,ar1 ed to