. Bell telephone magazine . Left: Messenger lights a?id flashlights fur-nished the only illumination at the Provi-dence, R. /., long distance switchboards asoperators struggled to handle, over reducedcircuits, the largest number of calls everreceived. Below: Operators at Middletown, Conn., worked by the light of kerosene lamps as a frantic public rushed to make calls on the night of the hurricane. Rig/it: Trucks fro inthe cetitral and west-ern divisions of theNew York CompanysUpstate Area pause inAlbany to pick up theircrews, who had comeahead by Above: New York Com-pany Upstate crews

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. Bell telephone magazine . Left: Messenger lights a?id flashlights fur-nished the only illumination at the Provi-dence, R. /., long distance switchboards asoperators struggled to handle, over reducedcircuits, the largest number of calls everreceived. Below: Operators at Middletown, Conn., worked by the light of kerosene lamps as a frantic public rushed to make calls on the night of the hurricane. Rig/it: Trucks fro inthe cetitral and west-ern divisions of theNew York CompanysUpstate Area pause inAlbany to pick up theircrews, who had comeahead by Above: New York Com-pany Upstate crews stop torefuel in New Haven, ontheir way to eastern Con-necticut.

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