. Bell telephone magazine . lants adjacent to the of war work at theseplants was a serious matter, and thetelephone company made every ef-fort to maintain service till the lastminute, and to restore it as soon aspossible. At Bridgeport, 213 telephoneswere removed. When water blockedthe entrance to the telephone oflUce, afire escape was rigged to a neighbor-ing building whose entrance was dry,and all employees had to enter andleave by that route. Under a bridgeadjacent to the oflice, a jam of drift-wood threatened to make trouble, buttwo experienced rivermen in a row-boat wer
. Bell telephone magazine . lants adjacent to the of war work at theseplants was a serious matter, and thetelephone company made every ef-fort to maintain service till the lastminute, and to restore it as soon aspossible. At Bridgeport, 213 telephoneswere removed. When water blockedthe entrance to the telephone oflUce, afire escape was rigged to a neighbor-ing building whose entrance was dry,and all employees had to enter andleave by that route. Under a bridgeadjacent to the oflice, a jam of drift-wood threatened to make trouble, buttwo experienced rivermen in a row-boat were able to clear it with a boathook in a few hours. Marietta, Ohio, greeted the on-coming flood as if it were a countyfair. Trucks backed in hub to hubto move out stock from the Front Street stores. No one hurried—theyhad done this before. But move outthey did, and the river took , the telephone people be-gan on the river front and workedback up the hill, removing telephonesand equipment. All told, the equip-. Precautions of another sort: protector installations high on the outside walls of residences, beyond the reach ot flood waters ment for 826 stations was PBX boards were taken outor shifted, the cables were cut off andcapped. The business ofl[ice in Mari-etta was moved to the second floorof a bank building, and the recordstaken to a central oflice uptown. 46 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING Some lashings gave way in the pole Telephone Company reports thatyards, but the loose poles Hoated into while each Hood in that citys history a backwater, where three telephonemen had the seafaring job of follow-ing them in boats in order to drive astaple into each pole and then anchorit or tie it up. Soon the river began to Hre hoses flushed away thesilt that covered the streets and added some know how to pre-viously accumulated experience, it re-mained for the foot flood of1937 to become the most effectiveteacher. Lessons learned then resul
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