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a printed page is a wholly impossible thing. Nothing but a language girl. immune to all schemes of discipline. Like the MYSTERIOUS NOISES they Their sins of omission and commission would fill a book. What with could not be controlled, and by general consent they were abolished. In place of the noisy and obstreperous boy came the docile, soft-voiced whittling the switchboards, swearing at subscribers, playing tricks with the wires, and roaring on all occasions like young bulls of Bashan, exchange was a loud and frantic place. yelling at the top of his voice, it may be imagined that a telephone of noise could convey the proper impression. An editor who visited the To describe one of those early telephone exchanges in the silence of a cat-and-dog squabble between the boys and the public, with every one the boys in the first exchanges did their full share in adding to the Bedlam." By the clumsy methods of those days, from two to six boys were Even as late as 1880, when New York boasted fifteen hundred telephones, highly important: "Don't Talk with your Ear or Listen with your Mouth." from Buffalo that his exchange with twelve boys had become "a perfect Chicago exchange in 1879 said of it: "The racket is almost deafening. names were still in use. And as the first telephones were used both as engaged in a game of fox and geese." In the same year E. J. Hall wrote needed to handle each call. And as there was usually more or less of Boys, as operators, proved to be most complete and consistent failures. troubles of the business. Nothing could be done with them. They were transmitters and receivers, there was usually posted up a rule that was Boys are rushing madly hither and thither, while others are putting in or taking out pegs from a central framework as if they were lunatics

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