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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ly ended in disaster;Mrs. Harlow has enoughrespect for electricityto ask questions insteadof experimenting. The accompanyingviews present Mrs. Har-low on duty at the sub-station. She says shethoroughly enjoys thework, and when youlook at her you can tellthat she means it.C. E. Sedgwick. Santa Rosa District Mr. Ralph Short, whohas been a substationoperator for a numberof years past, enlistedrecently and his callhas come to report atSan Pedro to leave onJune 21st. Mr. Short hasjoined the Navy as anelectrician and antici-pates with a great dealof pleasure his servicefor his country. M. G. Hall. Sacramento District Some three months agoSacramento succeededin getting the Govern-ment to locate one ofits aviation fields someten miles from town.Work was immediatelybegun and the neces-sary buildings wererushed to completion.On Saturday, June 15th,we w^ere given our firstthrill when five planesfrom the aviation fieldflew over and aroundSacramento. For twohours they hoveredover the very heart of
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Mrs. C. R. Harlow working her shift as an operator at Cement substation. Pacific Service Magazine 61 the city giving a demonstration of theability of the instructors who are sta-tioned at Mather Field. They made thedemonstration given by Art Smith at theExposition look almost commonplacewhen all five machines were in the air atone time and doing dare-devil stunts. When the school is in full operationithey expect to have about one hundredmachines. This aviation field is certainlyproving an added attraction to Sacra-mento and is worth coming miles to see. On Monday, May 20th, Sacramentoturned out en masse to greet some fourhundred Belgian, French and Italian sol-diers who, since the war began, have beenstationed in Russia and by suffering ex-treme privation and hardships have man-aged to get out of Russia and are nowon their way back to the trenches in theWestern front. The train bearing theseheroes arrived at 8 oclock a. m. Theprevious days papers had heralded theircoming and I really

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