14 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
ise 
Another Means of Protecting the 
North Shore Woods 
is in striking contrast to the unburned areas surround- 
ing it. Aside from this,.and a few other blank areas, 
the panoramic view is one of much beauty. The splen- 
did mansions for which the North Shore is noted set- 
ting in their forest back-grounds, offer a picture well 
worth seeing, and besides this there is a thirty mile 
line ocean view directly before the onlooker. Big 
ocean liners and small craft can be readily seen pass- 
ing back and forth on most any day. This station and 
others throughout the state are open to the people dur- 
Powerful Machines used to spray 
tops of Highest Trees é 
ing the entire season and some of them have many 
visitors. 
The State Department of Forestry is indebted to 
Mr. Sohier, well known on the North Shore, for this 
generous donations towards the building of the tower 
and the acquisition of the seven acres of land compris- 
ing the station lot. This seven acres, which is at pre- 
sent blank, is being planted to white pine by the state, 
so that in future years a good park should result from 
the present efforts to make the station grounds of. 
more value. : 
Your Summer Telephone 
Add to Pleasures of Resort Life by Having Connections Made Early 
BOUT this time every year all the telephone 
offices along the North Shore are _ flooded 
with requests for summer installations at the earliest 
possible moment. To facilitate the work, and for the 
mutual advantage of subscribers and the company, the 
various managers ask that these orders be received well 
in advance of the time such installations are actually 
needed, 
In June, July and August the telephone business 
along the North Shore increases enormously. Probably 
no other telephone company faces such a problem. 
Switchboards and outside equipment must be main- 
tained during the entire year to take care of this sud- 
den jump in subscribers and traffic for three months, 
aad hundreds of additional operators, installers and 
linemen must be employed. 
The company plans to take care of these summer 
installations as soon as possible after the application 
is received. But scores of people wait until they arrive 
at their summer home and then expect a telephone put 
in within an hour. If the applications is made before 
leaving the winter home, and the date for installation 
is given, every effort will be made to have the tele- 
phone in working order when wanted. 
There are several circumstances which may cause 
delay on these summer installations, but the principal 
reason is the tremendous burden suddenly placed on the 
men who run the wires and put in the telephones. 
About June 1 these applications commence to come in 
to the manager’s officers in a perfect flood. Hach ap- 
plicant must be taken in turn, hence the advisability 
of getting installation orders in as early as possible. 
Along the North Shore there are nearly 20 central 
_ offices, all of which are modern in every way and de- 
signed to take care of the telephone development for 
some years. Most of these central officers are in build- 
ings erected for the business. From these offices trunk 
lines run in every direction and make possible the mak- 
ing of calls to thousands of cities and towns in the 
United States. 
Under normal conditions about 350 telephone 
operators are employed in the North Shore exchanges, 
but during the summer this number is augmented to 
about 450. 
The telephone business in this section of the state 
is growing very fast and people everywhere are ap- 
preciating as never before the great value of the 
service. 
