Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 44, Number 6713, 8 October 1872
ROMANTIC MARRIAGE OF TELEGRAPH OPERATORS.
[From the Journal of the Telepraph.] The report of Scudamore, the Director of Postal Telegraphs in Great Britain, contains a romance of the most original description . Alter saying how successful he has found tbe- system of employing male and fomale cleric together, and how much the tone of tbe mtn has beeu raised by the association, and ho» well the women perform the checking or fault finding branches of the work, he uoes on to Bpeak of friendships formed by clerks at either end of a telegraph wire. They begin by chatting in the intervals of their work, and very soon become fast friends. "It is a fact," com trues Scudamore, " that a telegraph cleik in London, who was engaged on a wire to Berlin, formed an acquaintance with, and an attachment for mark the official style ot the language a female clerk who worked on the same wire in Berlin ; that he made a proposal of marriage to her. and that she accepted him without having seen him. They were married, and the marriage resulting from the electiic affinities is supposed to have turned out as well as those in which the senses are more apparently concerned." Nor must tbe prudent reader run away with the idea that these ;oung persons were very rash, or that they married without due acquaintance. For it is a fact that a clerk at one end of a wire can readily tell, by fhe way iv which the clerk at the other end does his work, "whether he is passionate or sulky, cheerful or dull, sanguine or phlegmatic, ill-natured or good-natured."