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Pulling a rowboat against the stubborn current of a stream on which floated a sheet of blazing gasoline, at the risk of being carried Into the flames or of being killed by exploding tank cars on a railroad bridge nearby, he restored important telephone toll lines that had been melted by the heat of the burning bridge. When it is borne In mind that he was suffering from a chronic illness at the time and was under a physician's orders not to risk exposure to smoke or dust or to risk undue fatigue. It will be understood that his loyalty was of a sort not ordinarily encountered. It will be understood, too, why he was singled out from among 350,000 Bell employees to receive the only gold medal awarded during the year 1924. Bis chance came on June 5, 1923, when he Was at his home in Guthrie, Oklahoma. At eight in the morning, a few miles north of Guthrie, a freight train was derailed on the Cimarron river bridge on the Santa Fe railroad's main line between Chicago and the Gulf. The train was made up of tank cars carrying gasoline and oil and flat cars loaded with lumber. When the curs were derailed, one or more tanks of casing-head gasoline were exploded, transforming the river to a blazing'flood and setting flre to the cars of lumber. Hearing the explosion. Rider hurried to the Scene. He found that the main toll lines of the American Telephone and Telegraph company and the Southwestern Bell Telephone company, extending from Chicago, Kansas City and other northern points through Oklahoma to Texas, had been put out of service. Thirty-four wires, In all, were down. Rider forgot all personal danger, for, to a telephone repairman, interrupted service means more than personal Ills. "Service must be restored," Is the motto of the telephone man, "The lines must be kept open." Through the year 1028 hundreds of telephone men had murmured that same motto to themselves as they risked life and limb to restore broken lines, but to Rider came the biggest opportunity. Rider's use of the opportunity was due to himself and to his loyalty to the service. Rider attempted to get a boat at the river but, was unable to do so. So he drove in his trouble car, with ladders and coiled rope, to a city lake some seven or eight miles distant. There he got I boat that he had built himself for fishing and bunting. Returning through Guthrie, he obtained from the telephone company's store room the necessary materials for repair work, reaching the bridge shortly after noon. With the assistance of other telephone employees, he at once began the work of restoring circuits. Putting out in the boat, he carried a coll of twisted wire across the river, paying out as be Vent. This was put Into service at 1:15 p. m., restoring the Chicago-Galveston toll circuit. Rider then aided in spanning the river with a Steel wire from which two Improvised cables of telephone drop wire (the twisted wire that ordinarily leads from a telephone pole to the wall of a building) so that by four o'clock In the afternoon 15 of the circuits were in service. Service on all circuits was restored by six o'clock. In completing these operations, he made repeated trips across the river. The Cimarron-is known *ts a treacherous stream and at the time of the accident It was full to the banks and was running In a raging torrent. On account of this current It leas necessary for him to cut upstream on each. 'I * ' crossing- to within 25 feet of the burning bridge* upon which stood a partially demolished tank car . which was expected to explode at any time. He was also subjected to the constant danger of being carried Into the blazing oil or timber or being capsixed in his frail craft. ^ Vail medal awards are made by a committee appointed to administer a special fund known as til® Theodore N. Vail Memorial Fund. Theodore N»; Vail died on April 1G, 1920. and the fund was established shortly after his death. It was felt by his widow and his business associates that It would establish a more fitting memorial than any monument or edifice could. Theodore N. Vail, for many years president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, was the creative genius of the Bell System. He became general manager of the Bell Telephone Company of America In the early eighties and It was largely due to his business ability that the telephone came into very general use so quickly. In brief. Bell built the telephone but Vail built the telephone business or was largely responsible for Its bnihllng. Vail was born in 184". and his life was a life of service, for before lie became associated with* Bell he organized the railway mail service, establishing approximately the practices and methods, of today in handling mail. He was a tireless worker but was not. like, many hard workers, a grim, self-centered hermit of finance. On the contrary, fellow-workers of high and low degree who survive him alj remark upon his friendly attitude and his interest In mat about him. Also his willingness to do favors. Because of these traits the Theodore N. Vail fund seemed the most fitting Institution to .p#f» petuate his memory. < The fund provides a system whereby each of the fourteen telephone companies in the Bell System is able to recognize acts of loyalty and heroism by awarding broiHe medals with appropriate citations. A national committee of award then reviews the acts of the bronze medal winners and such other acts as may be presented for special consideration and selects those whose acts stand out as deserving of extra recognition for the award of silver and gold medals. The national committee, as a general thing, lipits Its awards to two gold medals and eight SH- ' ver, although this may vary. Rider Is particularly honored, therefore. In receiving the only geld Sward made in 1924. The whole purpose of the,Vail Memorial Fund is summed up in the preamble to the document which announced its foundation: "Hardly a day has passed since the organisation of the Bell System that did not record so tabwhere in the System some act that strikingly ft* lustrated the loyalty and devotion of Bell Telephone employees. This thought of 'service first' Is more than devotion to an organization, Inspiring as that may be. It comes from a sense of responsibility In the public service. "This type of loyalty and devotion Is one of the finest traditions of the Bell System and Instances of It are of dally occurrence. Many times in the past there have been cases so noteworthy and so inspiring as to deserve some token of recognition more enduring than the spontaneous congratulations of associates anil friends. "A fund has been established to which Mrs. Vail has been a generous contributor to meet this need. It will be known as the Theodore N. Vail Memorial Fund." Six other Bell System employees will receive the Vail Silver Medal which carries with It a cash award of ¥'2T<0. They are Mrs. Myrtle Ethel iladloy, a substitute operator of Snyder, Okla.; Charles Nepeir Wolever, senior central office man, Pittston, Pa.; Muriel Annetta Crulkshan'k. night operator. Wyoming, Pa.; Louis Leon Cauthier, cable splicer's helper, Shreveport, La.; George Herbert Mann, cahleman. Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Alice C. Tillinghast, agent, Housatonic, Mass. Governor Trapp is a former citizen of Guthrie, Mr. Rider's home town. The gist of Governor Trapp's talk at the presentation of the Vail Gold Medal to Mr. Rider at the Oklahoma club, Oklahoma City, was this: "There is no greater public service than that given by an employee to Ills employer and to the public. The task of properly serving the public Is a huge one--one that Is not easy to perform. It Is indeed a plensure to know that Mr, Rider's courageous act has been so fittingly rewarded by the company which employs him. "As governor of Oklahoma I realise the constant demands which are made of public servants. There Is much similarity between my Job and that of the present-day utility which serves thousands or perhaps hundreds of thousands of people. Both of us must be constantly alert to the needs of our coin- •lonwealihs if we are to serve them adequately.- "It Is surely gratifying to me to know that a fellow townsman of mine should be singled out of 350,000 employees of the Bell System for this magnificent award. It is equally gratifying to think Of Mr. Rider's unswerving devotion to duty in a time of need, not only to serve his employer but also to serve the public which uses the telephone lines he restored under such hazardous conditions. "I am pleased that this act of heroism should be brought to the public's attention In such a forceful manner. We are too often prone to take such things as a matter of course, without thinking of the hardships which accompany the restoration of telephone service in dangerous emergencies. Surely Theodore N. Vail could have left no more fitting memorial to his memory than the establisliment of this award plan." Upon being presented, with the gold medal and •check for $500 Mr. Rider said: "At no time while restoring service across the river did I think of rewards. What I did was done because It needed to be done and because I wanted to serve my company and the public. Mr. Nlms, 1 thank you." There Is every reason to believe that the medalist spoke-^lie exact truth--that he had no thought of reward In the performance of his exploit. The compelling force was his ideal of service. For the ideal of service--of service both to the company -«nd to the public--is Increasingly high in the Bell Telephone System and has established an esprit de corps which evokes nation-wide admiration-- the Bell System "Spi*it-of Service." The history of the Bell System--from the very days of the Invention of the telephone by Alexiander Graham Bell In 1876--has been replete wltlf romance and romance is no less a feature today. ^That is why It is scarcely possible to take up a newspaper without reading of some deed out of the ordinary on the part of its employees. Here It is a switchboard operator who stays at her post until literally driven away by the flames; there it is an equally devoted girl who sends out warning until the flood waters endanger her own life. As for the "Trouble Shooter"--his name stands for adventure. For Nature is not always the kindly old dame pictured by the poets and nature writers. She gives up to man, but she exacts her price. So it Is that flood, wind, sleet and forest fire make the existence of the "Trouble Shooter *\ strenuous. 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