. Bell telephone magazine . Coastnd in the central part of the service was brought back to nor-lal in the upper part of the state,len were transferred to the shorereas, and by the following Wednes-ay night, a convoy of 30 trucks, withleir crews, was off for New of the most unusual incidents of the whole storm period was theconversion of a telephone central of-fice from manual to dial operation,exactly as scheduled, at 7 onSunday, November 26—the dayafter the gale. The event, in Wal-lingford, Connecticut, had long beenplanned, and 5,000 customers hadbeen notified; so, w
. Bell telephone magazine . Coastnd in the central part of the service was brought back to nor-lal in the upper part of the state,len were transferred to the shorereas, and by the following Wednes-ay night, a convoy of 30 trucks, withleir crews, was off for New of the most unusual incidents of the whole storm period was theconversion of a telephone central of-fice from manual to dial operation,exactly as scheduled, at 7 onSunday, November 26—the dayafter the gale. The event, in Wal-lingford, Connecticut, had long beenplanned, and 5,000 customers hadbeen notified; so, while more than1,000 telephones were out of orderin the Wallingford exchange, theywould be neither more nor less outof order in a dial office than in amanual office, and the event tookplace successfully even as repairswere being carried on throughout thetown. East and north of Connecticut liethe other five states comprising NewEngland, the territory of the NewEngland Telephone and TelegraphCompany. It is the most easterly. ./ splicing team works on cable down hi the snow The Other Side of the Picture Damage is spectacular. Brokenpoles and tangled wires beside theroad bespeak the fury of the storm. Restoration is encouraging. Truckconvoys rolling to the scene, skilledcrews working valiantly to restoreservice, are a reassuring sight. Such things attract attentionThey make news. But there is another side to thepicture: the telephone plant whichwithstands the storms assaults, theservice which does not falter. Evenin an emergency, they are prettymuch taken for granted. And theyare by far the larger part. Lets look at this in terms of justone hard-hit Area of one telephonecompany, by way of making the point. The storm put 39,000 telephonesout of order there. But those tele-phones were percent of all thetelephones in that Area; and, becausesome people had extension telephones,actually only percent of all cus-tomers were affected. Now, that isstill a lot of people without ser
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