Cincinnati Western Union Office, joke about Brooks insulators

The New Cincinnati Western Union Office.

CINCINNATI, O., July 22d.

To THE EDITOR OF THE TELEGRAPRER.

THIS city not having been represented in your columns lately, and fearing that the numerous correspondents who so suddenly sprung up have since determined to maintain silence, I will attempt to give to the fraternity some description of the new office of the Western Union Company at this point.   Short time since the company secured a lease of the basement and fourth stories of the building Nos. 56, 58 and 60 West Third street, in front of which now stands the "Boss" pole of this western country, it being not less than sixty feet high.

The basement of Nos. 56 and 58 is used as the Delivery Department, and that of No. 60 for the Commercial News Department. The ground floor of Nos. 5.6 and 58 is occupied by the Receiving Department, in the rear of which is the Manager's office. In the third story is located the office of the District Superintendent and the Supply Department. The fourth floor is entirely occupied by the operating room. This room is 42 by 51 feet, including the battery room in the northwest corner, 15 by 19 feet. The room is furnished with twelve ash tables with oiled walnut finish, each four by six feet, and containing four instruments. The table is divided lengthwise by a plate glass partition about two feet in height, while in the centre rises the gas pipe, furnished with Argand burners and ground glass shades. All the instruments are of one pattern, and were manufactured by the company, with the "wedging" improvement of Mr. Charles Summers. The switch board is a beauty, its size being 43 by 44 inches, and containing over 10,000 pieces of brass. The chief advantage of this board is that it occupies less space and accommodates more wires than any other board in the United Suites. It was made at the company's shops at Ottawa, from a design by Mr. Henning, Superintendent of the shops. The face of the board has a beautiful appearance, it being set in an ash and walnut frame and the brass lacquered; the connections are made with brass plugs. While a party of the "boys" were admiring its many beauties, a few days since, one of them remarked "that undoubtedly the company would have increased litigation at this point on account of employing so many plugs!" Upon the perpetration of this miserable joke some of the party incontinently left for "Schaefer's," to tackle a mineral water bottle, and the perpetrator would have "followed suit" had he not been seized immediately and rubbed down with a Brooks insulator, which, of course you know, renders escape almost impossible. (I don't charge Brooks anything for this puff, so don't let him be caught murmuring.) The main batteries, one of sixty and the other of fifty cups, occupy the room heretofore mentioned, and a pneumatic tube conveys the messages to and from the receiving and operating rooms.

The force of the office is as follows:

Geo. T. Williams, District Superintendent.

Chas. S. Lamb, Secretary.

F. A. Armstrong, Manager.

B. H. Johnson, Chief Operator.

A. Peck, Assistant Chief Operator.

A. T. Gould, Night Manager.

The day operators are:

C. L. Snyder, H. H. Scobell,

O. K. Newton, J. H. McGuire,

G. H. Everett (the veteran), J. S. Williams,

J. E. Hadley, Geo. Neakle,

L. D. Hamilton, T. H. Radford,

John Maguire, C. S. Kinney,

L. D. Johnson, T. Fulton,

Wm. Britton, S. B. Roberts.

And, in the Commercial News Department, Win. Fellows and C. Selden, Jr.

The night operators are:

W. Smith, D. W. Warner,

R. A. Furr, Geo. A. Clark,

A. Kern, J. T. Stevenson,

J. D. Thurston, C. F. Webb,

E. T. Gilliland, E. B. Groton.

B. F. Coan,

In the Delivery Department are C. W. Barnes, clerk, and W. R. Morehouse, assistant, In the Receiving Department, W. J. Lawler, book-keeper; J. C. Hall, assist. book-keeper; A. H. Graham, night receiver; Mrs. F. L. Webb, receiver; Miss F. H. Curtis, assist. receiver; W. F. McClure, clerk, and M. C. Newman, collector. Mr. H. D. Rogers, agent C. N. D., and Samuel Taylor, clerk. Patrick Whelan and James Reilly do the repairing in and around the city, and Michael Downey "tinds the battheries."

ALERT.