. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... om the cahh tothe distril)uting frame, to the engine room Avhere the powerplant Avas to be located and to other i)oints Avhere it Avas ap-parent they might be recpiired. An engine base of concreteAvas constructed in the garage and Iavo storage hattei-y charii-ing and Iavo lighting sets mounted. In fact, a conq)lete lay-out for the establishment of the toll sAvitching center Avas plan-ned and completed. It Avill he easily understood that the ob-taining of the necessary materials for all of this Avork uiule
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... om the cahh tothe distril)uting frame, to the engine room Avhere the powerplant Avas to be located and to other i)oints Avhere it Avas ap-parent they might be recpiired. An engine base of concreteAvas constructed in the garage and Iavo storage hattei-y charii-ing and Iavo lighting sets mounted. In fact, a conq)lete lay-out for the establishment of the toll sAvitching center Avas plan-ned and completed. It Avill he easily understood that the ob-taining of the necessary materials for all of this Avork uiulei-the conditions AA^hich existed at that time, lack of propei- , Avas a big handicap, but the .job had to l)e done, and wasacconqilislud despite the handicai)s and in record time. In the meantime, the remainder of the organization Avasengaged in building a lO-Avii-e lead ftoni La belle Kpine toGuignes, a distance of about t went \-tive miles. This consti-tuted the last remaining gap (d the (haumont-laris lead, andj-ight at that time Avas most urgeully i-eqnired—not oidy to. LEGEND % Routt of telephone LEAD BUILT 6Y Allt- )M MILES PARIS AND P]XV1R0NS 81 handle the heavy amount of traffic from (JIlQ at (Miaiimont toParis bnt also that eomnninication miuht be estal)lisiie(l witliBritish GHQ over the lead which we had jnst completed fromLa belle Epine to the connecting British point at llam. Thepole line was practically comi)leted and we were jnst Ieady tobegin stringing- wire when the news which we had been await-ing- for months arrived: The 411th Telegraph Battalion willreport to the Chief Signal Officer of the First Ai-my witliouldelay. Before leaving the area of the SOS and chronicling theevents in the zone of the army, the writer believes lie shouhltell the reader a little of Paris. It was the writers good for-tune to have made many visits to the City of Lights duringhis stay in the A. E. F., and it is difficult to tell very much aboutthis city in a s
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