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Show DISCIPLINING AN OPERATOR. Western Union Chief's Experience With a Refractory Employe. (New York Press.) Every telegraph operator In the country knows William J. Dealv of the Western Union. When it is said that an operator in California knows - one in New York, the treneral understanding is that he Knows ms signature over tne wire, ana . many warm friendships exist between men who never have seen each other, but whose acquaintance is ripe and dear : through the medium of the key. One ! day. as Mr. Dealy, then chief operator in the home office, was passing through the great room at the too of No. 195 Broadway, Broad-way, he heard a young man using strong language over the wire to some one in a distant state. "My boy," he said, gently touching the youth on the shoulder, "perhaps "per-haps it is not so desperate a case as you imagine. What has he done to you?" The explanation was that for a long time the chan had refused to take a message or in any way to attend to business. "Let me have your key for a moment," said the chief operator. "I will converse with him." , "Connect 29 with 69." said Mr. Dealv, which in th vernacular meant for some one somewhere to put- him Into communication commu-nication with the obstreperous chap in the distant state. ' Telegraph operators have a secret code of their own which we laymen are not supposed to understand, under-stand, even if we have an inkling of "Morse." Mr. Dealv. after finding his auarry. clicked that he wanted to talk with him awhile, ending a. pleasant command com-mand with these abbreviations, "sa" "wn". "Dy," meaning "say when, Dealy." Presently there came back over the wire from the incorrigible one, "Who the is Sawndv?" It is not on record, so far as I know, what happened to the offender, but only the oldest employes of the Western West-ern Union, the men in authority in the different branenes ' of the service, contemporary con-temporary with Mr.- Dealy, ever dare to call him "Sawndy." |
