The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-09

TELEPHONE lExcHAEdE.-Meu understand
that the effort 10 form q local Telephone
Company having proven a failure, that
there Is a prospect Of the Central District
and Printing Telegraph Company taking
the matter up and establishing MEele-
phone Exchange systemhere. n
This will be good news TO the business
community, as many In their vi6its to
Pitsburgh and other places have tested
its advantages, and they should encourage
whoever undertakes the enterprise. To
those not familiar with the workings Of
the Telephone Exchange . system, we
would explain that II consists Of q central
Office, where operators are constantly in
attendance, and from which reach out
wires leading 10 business houses or other
places, wherever subscribers can be SO.
cured, 80 that any subscriber by simply
telling the operator, can have his wire
connected to the wire Of any other sub.
scriber, and thus be put in direct, private,
speaking communication. II the system
shonld extend; and we have no doubt II
will, TO all OF the mills and business places
here, and at Bellaire and Bridgeport, the
saving OF time and shoe.leather, to say
nething Of the wear and tear, would be
great.
That there Is necessity for this enter
prise in this city Is not so apparent now as
1t would be were the thing given O trial.
The telephone has been used in this city
very satisfactorily in the last two years.
D. o. List jr., has used II with great sue.
cess between his Office on Fourteenth
street and his packing establishment in
Fulton. II has also been used between
Manchester, at Reymann's Brewery, and
Rolls Market street saloon. Behrens &
Co. connect their Third and Eighth ward
stores with 1t 10 q great advantage, and
Benwood and Wheeling were for long
time in telephone communication. All
those who have tried it attest its worth
and convenience to them in facilitating
their business transactions, and report
that It Is indispensable in this connection.
A representative Of this paper while in
Pittsburgh last Saturday, visited the
Telephone Exchange, at Wood street
and Fifth avenue, and through the courte.
sy OF Capt. I. B. A. David, was shown the
workings Of the Exchange. In alarge
room the apparatus is arranged similar "a
that in q telegraph Office, only more so
and there are many half.grown boys
flying hither and thither, with small
pieces Of covered brass tipped wires
around theirnecks, which we soor
discovered are used in making con
nections with wires to various parts o.
the city, as fast as desired, which Is very
fast, indeed, as not second OF time passes
but some one or more Of the little taps
fall, which Is the signal. At once one oil
these short pieces Of connecting wire Is
removed from boys neck, and the con
nection is made to any parto Of the city,
No time is lost at all, and hardly is the
signal answered until the one desiring II
Is put in communication with the locality
desired. Capt. David informed us that the
utmost satisfaction prevailed with the sys
tenn among subscribers, and that they ex.
pressed themselves very much in favor Of
Its general use, saying they would not be
without 1t under any circumstances.
We hope our citizens will give this move
ment all the necessary encouragement
and 1t will be but short time until we
shall have this convenience in our midst
GAINESVILLE has tried 1t very successfully
and Is in Communication with towns forty
miles distant. All our environs would
speedily be brought into close connection
| with US. This project would have beer
!, in actual operation long ago had 1t moi
, been for the mistaken action Of the Second
Branch Of Council.