GOOD EXCUSE FOR DISOBEYING ORDERS.
The other day John F. Wallack, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph, related a bit of his experience. It occurred during one of tho night storms so frequent last summer. The violence of the wind had detached the trunk quadruples "wire usejd for New York business, and the testing in etrument located the break at the first pol<west of Lewisville. Mr Wallack called a\> the operator there, and ordered that th break be fixed. 'Can't go out to-night— storm is too bad,' was the reply. { Storm or no storm, the thing has got to be done.' 'Well, I've got no ladder.' 'Go out and climb the pole,'—this somewhat testily. '■) can't climb the pole.' * What's the reason you can't ?—the manager's temper goinp fast. 'I'm a woman.' Mr Wallack hart forgotten, in the press of business, that lewisville had a female operator, but when reminded of it he gave up the job and hired two boys to attend to it.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 4
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