Illustrative of the length to which telegraphers could go at a time when they were so much in demand, Edison tells the following story: "When I took the position there was a great shortage of operators.
It was natural that telegraphers should take an intense interest in the general struggle, for not only did they handle all the news relating to it, but many of them were at one time or another personal participants.
The only people who did anything in electricity were the telegraphers and the opticians making simple school apparatus to demonstrate the principles.
The latter had remembered the general strike, and had guarded against the defection of the telegraphers by installing wireless stations, in the control of the Mercenaries.
At the end of the week, as had been prearranged, the telegraphers of Germany and the United States returned to their posts.
Not a train ran, not a telegraphic message went over the wires, for the telegraphers and railroad men had ceased work along with the rest of the population.
It was a perfect June day and the hundreds of telegraphers from all parts of the country, with their families, spent the forenoon in a steamboat excursion around the city.
The failure of the Telegraphers to pay a disability benefit is largely due to the fact that their occupation is less dangerous than other forms of railway service.
The Telegraphers provide that no part of the mortuary fund shall be paid out, loaned or diverted for any purpose except for the payment of approved death claims.
Thus, the Telegraphers were almost annihilated, while the Firemen and the Conductors practically maintained their position.
The Telegraphershave not paid a disability benefit since 1897.
The key used by telegraphers is represented in Fig.
To-day the armytelegraphers are not even accorded the privilege granted enlisted men and teamsters.
Scott became Assistant Secretary of War he called into his service the railroaders and telegraphers whom he knew would be serviceable and faithful to the government.
Telegraphers know, though the general public may not, that messages can be sent by touching together the ends of a cut telegraph wire, and can be received by holding the ends to the tongue.
It might be well to avoid playing poker at a table where two telegraphers are chums, for it is possible that one might learn when to stay in a little longer for the raise and make a pot a little bigger.
The only practical history of the wartelegraphers in the field.
The civil telegraphers abandoned the army when they saw proper, and this at a time when it was most important of all the War that they should have been in communication with Washington.
Consequently there was a great scarcity of telegraphers throughout all the cities and towns of the country.
Indeed, the following story, related by Edison, illustrates the lengths to which telegraphers could go at a time when they were in so much demand: "When I took the position there was a great shortage of operators.
The only people who did anything in electricity were the telegraphers and the opticians, making simple school aparatus to demonstrate the principles.
Telegraphers at the front who got out of touch with the staff were still in touch with the capital.
The telegraphic history of Cleveland is mainly written in the story of the connection with this city of the two leading telegraphers whose biographical sketches are given in this work.
Defective insulation was a standing cause of trouble, and telegraphers were studying and experimenting how to overcome the difficulties in this direction, but without satisfactory result.
The increase in the traffic necessitated the stringing of additional wires, and the employment of more instruments, linemen, telegraphers and office clerks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telegraphers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
