. Bell telephone magazine . 4. Business of-fice at Hartfordafter luater hadpanly receded. 5. Barn restingon a telephonecable in Con-necticut. 6. Vp to crossarms of an A. T. toll lead, THE BELL SYSTEM FIGHTS THE FLOODS Through night hours, trucks rolled along Connecticut roadsconverging on Hartford with their burdens of emergency equip-ment which meant life to a citys telephone service. Powerfulengine-generators were brought from as far away as cities inNew Jersey and from west of Syracuse, New York. In the rest of New England in the states where the NewEngland Telephone and Telegraph
. Bell telephone magazine . 4. Business of-fice at Hartfordafter luater hadpanly receded. 5. Barn restingon a telephonecable in Con-necticut. 6. Vp to crossarms of an A. T. toll lead, THE BELL SYSTEM FIGHTS THE FLOODS Through night hours, trucks rolled along Connecticut roadsconverging on Hartford with their burdens of emergency equip-ment which meant life to a citys telephone service. Powerfulengine-generators were brought from as far away as cities inNew Jersey and from west of Syracuse, New York. In the rest of New England in the states where the NewEngland Telephone and Telegraph Company operates and inupstate territory of the New York Telephone Company, simi-lar scenes were enacted. Wherever power failures were ex-perienced or seriously threatened, engine-generators weremoved in either from other offices or from warehouses. On Pennsylvania roads leading toward Pittsburgh and otherstricken cities, other trucks, bearing similar burdens, wereenacting similar roles in the drama of the Bell Systems battleto keep its service intact. Heavily laden, hampered by roadswhich at places were covered with water or which had turnedto mud, they went rolling doggedly along—c
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