Show II The Telephone Girl is Right on the Job I By AN OPERATOR Did you yon ever eor take a trip through h ha a telephone office And If It you have i had huncl this hIs privilege e did It not Impress you as being heln one of the tile busiest places I Soil jou have 0 over oyer icen You were naturally impressed by hy bythe hylie I Ithe the lie quiet orderly manner mannor in which the work Is ia executed when you OU had na an naturally supposed all was hurry huriy and confusion con fusion r served as operator for five years ears and during durin that lime time had lucid many man strange experience with my callers who sometimes were as ag capable callable of us its using lag ing In a telephone correctly correct as aK I am of painting the North pole black and I sorry to nay Sn the most frequent of offender offender fender belongs to my own sex HeX sevI sexI I II I once heard of a firm whose opera operator tor toi received a cull from froni a bride of a afew aI afew I few Cew months whose father had ar tr arrived rived from the south on a visit Tho The call ran mu thus thim Mr Ir Hall FLaIl please this thil Is Mrs Irs Hall tall The operator thought she slie heard a bieak bleak In her hor voice olce as us she spoke Your I husband Is attending a directors meeting Ill have hao him call up 1111 as soon DK us he comes out outA otutA I A shriek came from roni Mrs Mus Halls hails end of the line The Tho receiver dropped 1 Oh be he Is dying Hes lies dying ding The Tiu Th operator knew It must be her hier father dying and she he was there alone She at al once Mr lr Hull hail who left for his hll apartments find and hail had the I meeting adjourned only to lo flail find that Dedo O do the lie poodle had just passed away In a n convulsion and tho the Inno mao Innocent Innocent cent operator who ailed failed to understand that it the poodle Instead of or h ho her r father lost her position Then again we have havo the most soil soli citou people you could Imagine Ima lne who never neVOl get vexed because tho the party part partle tc le cc whom they tho wish to speak hap hal happens happens pens lens to be engaged in 01 or because a storm has crippled the thelon theon thelong lon long on distance wire In the lie town ton where Mi Mirandy randy has bias gone sone for a n two weeks visit and stayed six 1 or because you dont happen to know tho Ito score acore of oC the first half of a football game An operator can complete about SOO calls tier per cr hour of course calls for foran an nit outlying exchange must be made mado through h a trunk line hue and antl handled again a aln by hr an operator In that exchange This necessitates a careful as well understanding be between as Instantaneous of each cachi office and the thie operators tween pe when yen consider the number of calls handled pet pei minute you ou agree with me ale I am Ilm sure that It Is mat mar well wall as Interesting this as a work ork of oC your unseen friend In the telephone work as In ninny many man other fields of or labor Ibor theer Is the lull hill and again the lie rush which has buns always impressed me as wing being like the tho In Ill incoming b much coming wave vave a followed by a larger one and und lien several more be before foothold foro fore you could recover your youir You sit answering g and wondering if each one Is setting getting his turn and anti try th thin lag ing in to answer all without vexing any an anfor for when a subscriber Is vexed he lie sometimes forgets forets the number he h was going to call and delays the game several seconds valuable ones too loo for IOu oj the operator as the lie next call may mar maybe marbe maybe be one ono for Cor tile the fire department There Thero Is scarcely anything that happens In our busy butsy bus city that does docs not come under tho the telephone call cull Give It up Well if the right rl ht man mansa be bc the right sa says s Ask an operator who is II Interested In hOI her work If she site Is satisfied with her hei position and anti she will answer she Mho loves loes the of a rush just jnet as much as lH fl h A fireman does a big fire gestures had stirred tI the hue souls of ninny many myriads was to influence in the lie members of ot the committee or persuade pr them item to stay sta the wave cf Gf street anti ami city renovation which sum sing singed ed eel upon him In the sore and auml yellow winter of oC his life Joe Mitchell Chap ChappIe pIe pic in Affairs Affair at nl Washington May III National Magazine |