'Telephone subscribers in the area bounded by Avenue Foch, Avenue Joffre, Rue Cardinal Mercier and Route' Lorton have suffered some inconvenience during the past two days due to an accident which damaged tone of the main feeder cables during work on water mains in Avenue dit Rol Albert.
This accident placed a 900 pair cable and certain branch cables entirely out of commission, and rendered It necessary 10 replace a length of 300 fect in the underground ducts.
The trouble immediately became apparent by its effect on the exchange equipment, and was speedily located bby means of special testing apparatus maintained by the Telephone Company for this purpose. Since the afternoon of December 13, repairman have been working day and night to restore service as quickly as possible, but since the work involves making less than 4800 single wire splices, and because each individual wir must be spliced to its correct counter part, it is not expected that the last line will be fully restored before this evening, An oficial of the Company express-regret for the unavoidable ineonvenience to the public and stated that 300 lines already had been restored up to 8 am. yesterday also that every effort is being made in the interests of the subscribers.
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