Crossword-Solution: CENTRALS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When, recently, a gas main broke in Brooklyn, sixty girls were at once called to the centrals in that part of the city to warn the ten thousand families who had been placed in danger.

Scattered over their range are a number of recognized "centrals." Sometimes these are stones, sometimes the angle of cross-trails, sometimes a Buffalo-skull--indeed, any conspicuous object near a main trail is used.

The earliest "centrals" reminded most persons of madhouses, for the day of the polite, soft-spoken telephone girl had not arrived.

There were in 1916 as many as 647 "city centrals," the term used to designate the affiliation of the unions of a city.

The city centrals are smaller replicas of the state federations and are made up of delegates elected by the individual unions.