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stools at the switchboard until the window-panes were broken by the on fire, or some menace from the weather is at hand, the telephone bells lumbermen. So quickly was this order filled that on the twelfth day heat. Then they pulled the covers over the board and walked out. child is lost, or a convict has escaped from prison, or the forest is Two hours later the building was in ashes. Three hours later another Mexico, refused to quit her post until she had warned her people of a courtesy of the Bell Company, which carried the messages free, they were building was rented on the unburned rim of the city, and the wire chiefs it was the telephone that held the city together and brought help to the Messina with the lumber. After the Kansas City flood of 1903, when the clang out the news, just as the nerves jangle the bells of pain when drenched city was without railways or street-cars or electric lights, flood that had broken loose in the hills above the village. Because of her courage, nearly all were saved, though she herself was drowned at after the arrival of the cablegram, the ships were on their way to the body is in danger. In one tragic case, the operator in Folsom, New After the destruction of Messina, an order for enough lumber to build Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, sent an appeal for the stricken city ten thousand new houses was cabled to New York and telephoned to Western If a disaster cannot be prevented, it is the telephone, usually, that brings first aid to the injured. After the destruction of San Francisco, the last force to quit and the first to recover. Its girls sat on their delivered to the last and furthermost mayors in less than five hours. danger-spots. And after the Baltimore fire, the telephone exchange was to the three hundred and fifty-four mayors of his State; and by the the switchboard. Her name--Mrs. S. J. Rooke--deserves to be remembered.

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