The New England magazine . r daily average of3,000 feet, and that means long hours andhard work. I had come into camp the daybefore with my camera, and had been wel-comed with a general intimation that Imight share the gangs bed and grub if onlyI did nt git in the way. Mindful of this adjuration not to make a nuisance of myself, I watched the work of the camp cook until some time after breakfast had been served. To him I did 322 the Hotel Astorico, could surpass in satis-faction the repast of coffee, rolls, and beef-steak, with fixings, which was served tous that morning. It may seem strange t
The New England magazine . r daily average of3,000 feet, and that means long hours andhard work. I had come into camp the daybefore with my camera, and had been wel-comed with a general intimation that Imight share the gangs bed and grub if onlyI did nt git in the way. Mindful of this adjuration not to make a nuisance of myself, I watched the work of the camp cook until some time after breakfast had been served. To him I did 322 the Hotel Astorico, could surpass in satis-faction the repast of coffee, rolls, and beef-steak, with fixings, which was served tous that morning. It may seem strange that a telephone-line between the two most populous cen-tres of the new world should be built undersuch conditions by men living in the direction which the line takes isthrough the most thinly populated part ofConnecticut,— that, in a general way,which is followed by the air-line route be-tween New York and Boston,— so thatmore or less sleeping out nights is inevita-ble. Besides, it is a fact that living under. Work for the trimmers. Much of the route lies over private right-of-way, through badly tangled country 324 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE canvas proves to be far more comfortablethan putting up at indifferent lodgings insmall manufacturing-towns. Breakfast was over by quarter past six,and the men started on their days task, astretch of interesting operations which Ihad a good chance to observe. A preliminary study of the route to befollowed had, I found, been very carefullymapped out for the construction-crew needed to support the sixty-odd wires thatmust be stretched upon the the country, so he informedme, the supply is getting rather scant, andalready the management of the Bell tele-phone system is at work on experiments insoaking the wood with preservative, sothat the poles may last longer. It is thepolicy of each Bell company to secure therequisite timber so far as possible from the
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