Still, had the old cable continued in operation a few months longer, experience and practice would have enabled the operator to transmit and receive with very much greater facility.

He signaled the lantern operator and there leaped forth on the sheet the head of Martinez, the murdered, mutilated head with shattered eye and painted cheeks and the greenish death pallor showing underneath.

"Get the Lion quickly," he ordered the wireless operator.

I accordingly wrote out a long telegram informing him of my difficulty, and had it taken to the telegraph office for transmission; but the operator, instead of sending it at once as he should have done, showed it to General Bankhead, who tore it up, and instructed the operator not to pay any attention to what I might say, as he was running that post.

SEE Otis, Arthur S. OTIS ELEVATOR CO. Maintenance reference book, article 5.4.1; type 30-S operator.

" At one corner of the depot Ben found a telegraph operator.

"Any calls?" he asked the operator.

"Running down to the telegraph office at the Grand Trunk Station in Detroit, he told the operator all about it.

Maybe he fled with the automobile containing two English moving-picture operators which passed us at that moment, and from which floated back a shouted warning that the Germans were coming.

" "A boy!" cried the operator.

It is not a series of hills that deters the gasoline operator, but the one hill, the one grade, the one bad place, which is just beyond the power he has available.

" In China when the subscriber rings up exchange the operator may be expected to ask: "What number does the honorable son of the moon and stars desire?

I then forced the operator to tell me if the line ahead was clear, and threatened to take the station-master under military arrest for trial at Harbin unless he announced my intention to start in that direction and cleared the way ahead.

He got the cable-operator to have you deliver the order in Manila for him.

I induced our telegraph operator to rectify this oversight, and felt repaid for my trouble when I showed the message.

The keyboard part may be placed wherever convenient, away from noise or anything that is likely to distract or interrupt the operator, and the perforated roll of paper produced by it (which governs the setting machine) may be taken away as fast as it is finished.

They might raid the stations and kill the operators, but they seldom molested the wires.

It was necessary for the recipient of the money to be identified, and this Betty's cousin, who knew the operator, agreed to look after.

When it became known that the boys were moving picture operators the interest in them increased, and one lively young lady wanted Blake to get out his camera and take some moving pictures of the ship's company.

If a subscriber is away temporarily, a plug of one colour is inserted in his socket, or if he is behind in his payments to the company a plug of another colour is put in, and if the service to his house is discontinued still another plug notifies the operator of the fact, and it remains there until that number is assigned to a new subscriber.

The lights glow in both exchanges, notifying the operators when the conversation is begun and ended, and the operator of Eighteenth Street "central" makes the record in the same way as she does when both numbers are in her own district.

You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.'

" "You don't mean Mrs. Leffingwell?" queried the aerial operator in a strained tone.

Some lovers feel it a profanation thus to reveal their souls beneath the eye of a telegraph-operator; but the objection of delicacy ceases if you can regard the operator in his actual capacity as a part of the machine.

"Indefatigable answering, sir," reported the operator.