| Show WOKE HIM UP aft LAST HOTT telegraph Telee raph WM to doty there is a good story about telegraph operator who once worked the land wires in the duxbury cable office going to sleep one night and a message having to be sent sis or seven thousand miles to wake him up the operator is now a practicing physician in cambridge mass but before annexing M D to his name was one of the gilt edge telegraphers of the country says a writer in Dona hoes magazine one night while on duty in the duxbury office he fell asleep at his key the sleep was a sound one the new york operator called till out of patience when he sent a message to boston requesting the chief operator in charge to tell duxbury to answer new york the sleeper however was as deaf to di di as to the impatient characters flashed on from new york in the cable room next the sleeping operator was the cable artist the room was dark and he was watching the mirror for the tiny sparks that in those days went to make up a message to him the morse alphabet was all greek so the sleeper slept on seeing no other way out of the muddle and thinking the operator asleep new york called canso in nova scotia and addressed a message to the cable operator at duxbury the message read go into the other room and wake up that operator canso sent it to hearts content in newfoundland hearts content rushed it across the deep to valentia from there it went to london thence to dover and across the channel to calais and to brest brest kept it moving on to miquelon and miquelon gave the cable operator at duxbury a unique surprise the sleeper was then aroused about eleven minutes having been taken by the grand round of tho cablegram he tried to explain matters by telling new york he was out of adjustment the story impress the officials as being truthful and in a day or two there was a vacancy in duxbury |
