At first there were 24 one quart jars but later there were 12 two- and-a-half quart jars. These batteries were kept in a little closet off the office and it was always someone's duty to see that any corrossion was wiped away and the jars properly filled with cop- ,per sulphate once a week. The office was heated by a low pot-bellied stove - a Hot Blast — which always had its middle whitewashed. A brass lamp, stil in existance, lit the office on winter evenings. It sat on a bracket and its small candlepower was re-inforced by a reflector. On holidays the flagpole on the office never went bare. The telegraph line, unlike the present day ones which fol¬ lows the Railway , went to Charlottetown by way of Crapaud and Cornwall . The nearest operator was at Crapaud where for many years Penelope Howatt was operator. She was one of the earliest pupils to learn telegraphy in the Carleton office. T. C. Muncey trained many other operators most of whom are now forgotten. They included Al Laird of North Bedeque , Herb Muttart of Au¬ gustine Cove, W. A. MacQuarrie of Hampton, Fred Pearson of Chelton and at least one of Carleton's school teachers, Ethel Brennan , who took lessons after school each day. Key tapping was music to all the Muncey family and the children in the home, Sue , Frank, Sing, Neenah and Nan all learned to receive and send messages by Morse Code, and all worked in the office when their father needed them. T. C. Mun ¬ cey died of pneumonia in 1904 and his office saw a succession of young operators from Charlottetown including Charles Webster , Cleveland White , Ernest Large , Jack MacLeod and Mark Calder . All these boarded in the Muncey home. The office closed out in the period 1914-1916 when Borden was born at Carleton Point and the new Car Ferry terminal needed a telegraph office close by. A little earlier, 1913, the Western Union took over the Island telegraph lines though the name Anglo-American continued to be used till 1924. Since 1929 telegraph service has been closely integrated with the Government-owned railways and has been known as the Canadian National Telegraph Co . The little Anglo-American office at Carleton was sold by Mrs. Muncey in October of 1921 to Charles Doull who moved it to the Siding where it took on the pleasant pungent smell of new leather and where the tap of the cobbler's hammer replaced the tick-a-tack-tack of the message key. Many years later, after being empty and idle for some time when Charles Doull served on the Car-ferry, the old shop was moved (1952) across the road by Keith Lord and converted into a produce office. Such it re¬ mains today, one of Carleton's historic buildings. History is made of little incidents, many of them trifling but adding their bit to the picture of the past. Such was the Muncey cow, a Jersey called Daisy who had her picture taken in a day before "snapshots" and who even made the Charlotte¬ town press by her ability at the pail. The Weekly Examiner of Friday, August 5, 1887 told of how Muncey's two year old —60—