Show DISCIPLINING AN OPERATOR Western Wester Union Chiefs Chiefs Experience With a Refractory New York Press Every telegraph tele ph operator in the te country countr knows William J Deal of the Western Union When it I Is said that an operator in n California knows one in New York the general is that he knows snows enera hit his signature over the wire and ad adman many man warm war friendships exist between men me who never flavOr n ver have seen each other but whose whoso acquaintance is ripe and dear through the te medium of the key One Oneda day da as Mr Ir Dealy D ah then thea chief chic operator in inthe Inthe Inthe the home office was passing through the theet great creat et room react rom at a the top ton of or No 15 Bra Broadway Broad Broadway way wa be he heard hear a young man using strong over cr the wire to some one in a distant state My Sty boy he said sId gently gent touching th t youth on the shoulder per perhaps perhaps haps bans it is not so o desperate deperte a ca case cae e as a you Ima Imagine lne What has bas he done to you The explanation was that tt for Cor a along long time Ume timetha the tha chan chao chaD had bad refused refuse to take a message mese or 0 In in any way Wa to attend to business Let me mc key ke for a said the him chief operator r X will converse coner with wih him Connect Connect 29 2 with O 69 6 said Mr tr Deal which in the vernacular meant for some come someone one somewhere to put him Into communication communicAtion with the obstreperous chap in inthe Inthe Inthe the distant state Telegraph operators have e u secret code of their own which we laymen layen arc are not supposed to under understand understand stand even een if I we have an nn inkling of ot Morse or Mr Ir I Dealt Dealy DelY after atol finding his hIe Quam clicked that tat he wanted to t talk With him hi awhile ending a pleasant pl nt com command command mand inand with wt these abbreviations sa sawn 53 wn Sm n Dy meaning say ray I when Dealy Dely Presently there ther came back over the wire from the Incorrigible C one e Who the c is rh It Is lf not i on record so far r rI as asI asI I know what happened to the offender but only onIT the fhe oldest of the West Vest Western Vestern ern em Union the Hie men in authority in the different branches of the service con contemporary contemporary temporary with Mr Ir Dealy ever dare to call him |