Show 1 THE MATTER MAHER WITH TOE THE OPERATOR This week there thoro is at tho the Orpheum theater a sketch called II Tho Tho Opera Opera- Operator tor It has 1 received cd words of praise from tho the press of Salt Lal Lake c somo seine of them rightly bestowed but not all Truth is that tho the press has bas been lenient with kith the piece in its presentation for tho reason that Mr r. r Chambers the tho hero horo is is well known in iu this city and is ic- ic related I to many in in kinship Tho rho piece picco 1 possesses OS merit there thoro is no about that It is the groundwork groundwork ground round work for a sketch 1 of surpassing surpassing sur sur- passing worth Were rare it not for rue egregious c that is manliest man man- liest it would be entitled to all of tho the words of commendation that have havo been written about it and more moro This is not not- nota a dramatic criticism bo bo- SU he lie who writes it knows knO little about II dramatics in the usual acceptance acceptance acceptance accept accept- ance of the term Whether hether Chambers acts well or Miss Ii s Knott acts wo well is not nota a question that will bo be 1 0 judged here the audience is if tho the best hest jul judge o of that Certain it is is however Cl that theio thero is plenty in iu the tho sketch that ought ht to to bo ho vaccinated Technically tho the piece piece piece- I I the side of which h tho the audience sees is sees is isI I nearly all wron wrong I In tho first place there is no ope Tho noise produced by the sounders sounder's armature is in response to tho the I opening and aud closing of an electric circuit circuit cir by untrained d hand band Th There Thoro are no intelligible si signals There Them is isra a confusion confusion I sion of dots intermingled with a few dashes but no tra train n order or any other arrangement of words in order was sounded when the writer of this was tho tho present The frantic franti efforts of operator to communicate with his bis dispatcher dis dis- were so 50 absurd as to bo lous OUS Joke of Dark Lamp In the second pla place a woman oman does not hold bold an unlighted lantern in tho taco faco of a sleeping man and instantly discover disco er that he is asleep Lamps on a railroad JO to bo cf f value value- to the service son I II I 1 1 I I I i 1 I I are usually lighted In tho the third place no train dispatcher gives his bis Ii 0 O. K to a 1 train order until until un un- til it has been repeated back to him In tho the fourth place no train dispatch dispatch- di dispatcher patch patch- er cr will complete an order until ho hohas hohas hohas has r received the si signatures natures of tho the conductor conductor con rou ductor and the engineer In the fifth place price no cn engineer neer or conductor con con- conductor on- on ductor will receive a a. train order until it is complete complete they they have hae been tan taught ht differently In the sixth place pIneo lace few if indeed any auy offices in the tho the heart emit of the desert J require ro- ro quire a telegraph raPh operator at a small station to remain on duty for seventy hours bours without sleep the tho exi exigencies of the service do not demand itIn it In Tn the seventh lio place ever every great railroad railroad rail- rail road rond system is equipped with a call bell bellI system tom by means o of which the operator may mry be called at any time ni night ht or day In tho the ei eighth place no railroad company company com- com pany places its telegraph table in the center of the ilie room loom and connects its in- in n- n with ith an au electric cl light cord with an unseen switchboard Railroads do business with a view to greater sta sta- stability stability than that t i tIn In tho ninth place a very important part art of a telegraphic set is 18 absent inThe in inThe inThe The Operator Operator rho thc tho vela relay There Thero aro are two sounders but sounders aro arc but local apparatus to accentuate the tho sound and are not used to form a part of the direct direct main main lino set Without a relay relay relay re re- lay it would bo ho practically to cut in iii on a 3 long lon wire and receive e signals There are rare exceptions to toI this rule luIe but they are arc exceedingly Jy rare Others Have Learned In the tenth place no operator receives receives receives re re- an order unless he be shows his hie signal sig nal nal- nal t out his bis red red before J before ho he Puts nal puts puts re repeats repeats re- re peats eats his order back If Ii tho the wife in inthis inthis this his case turned tho signal lever I did not see it In the mth elev place great tran transcontinental transcontinental coutin cou- cou tin railroads do net act expect their offices to depend on candles for or illumination illumination illumination nation as 85 in the tho case caso of The Tho Opera Opera- tor Coal oil is ono one of the supplies on which the railroads do not st stint nt In the t twelfth place and last tho the block system in use uso on all of the roads that traverse tho the heart of the desert and which run big trains carrying their precious burden of human buman freight is an auxiliary safeguard s whose value is not to bo be underestimated ed for it is barring mishaps quite per per- A collision 1 I take it it could not possibly have hate occurred between the trains involved in D The The Operator J And it would be bo so easy so very easy easy- to correct these flagrant rant defects omissions and commissions e In tho production pro of Tho t Tho Secret Service William William William Wil Wil- liam Gillette learned enough of tho the art artof artof artof of rap to serve his big role In Tho Squaw Man lafan you find the tho atmosphere atmos atmos- phere phero and the setting without Haw flaw Inthe In Inthe the thc play Tho The Alaskan you havo have tho the details as they are aro All of these superimpose superimpose su su- expense and training training that not needed in t The Tho The are Operator but The Tho Operator ought to borrow a book of rules from tho the ne next t train dispatcher dispatcher dispatcher dis dis- he comes across and spend a 1 n night bt or two in a night telegraph office on a real railroad The Tho hope is is that these few fow remarks will find fine Tho The Operator with as correct correct correct cor cor- a setting betting ou on the stage e as he ho has behind behin it the it most mast perfect imitation of locomotive and train stopping and starting starting start start- ing perhaps ps that has bas ever been heard in any theater in in this city J. 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