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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ld, re-veal many details aboutthese lines and in-clude items unfamiliarto present-day account-ants. Usually typed,but often in fine hand-writing, they lay bare the anatomy ofa horse-and-buggy era in telephony.The team and driver so importantto such enterprises then were usuallyhired, it seems, for $65 a month.There were entries as well for thereel wagon, the board hunter,the dinner wagon and driver andfor shoeing many a horse. Gangleaders were ordinarily paid $35 andboard a month and their men $30and board a month—for the stand-ard ten-hour day, six-day week, ofcourse. Not to mention the fre-quent and very unstandard stretch ofhours during which devoted men in apioneer industry struggled to get theline across rocky soil, over the river,and up the hill. Stout Fellows Four months out of the year westarted out before daylight in orderto be on the job at 7 A.M. Then weworked until 6 P.M. and came inafter dark. That was known as thegood old days, writes one memberof a gang of yesteryear.
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./ /i)ic crew at Hazelto)i, Pa., in igio, all set for a big days work-out In many ways the foreman of anearly wire gang was like the skipperof an old-time sailing vessel, writesa retired employee. Both have goneout now, but the point is: they suc-cessfully met the conditions they wereup against. It must be borne in mindthat (the foremen) had to rule overas hard boiled a lot of men as wasever gathered together. They couldcontrol their gangs only by beingtougher, braver, more reckless, andwithal better fellows than any of themen under them, Another writer also testifies to therough qualities of the men but adds,Many of them would get down ontheir knees and make a little prayerbeside their beds at night. The brawny men who workedso indefatigably played hard too.Whenever a group of pioneers getstogether there is many a chuckle overthe pranks they played on each other,the horse shoes they pitched, thepoker they played over the week-ends, and the dances they occasion-ally found in the quiet

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