Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-07

first offered to the public in a crude state
and there was an undesirable variety of sys
TENS, but with great rapidity, improvement.
have been made and consolidstion has hear
the order of the day. Most telephone ex.
Oh snges are said 10 be on a dividend.payin
basis, as result of combination. At srst
both customers and compaaies were at Sc.
about the proper tariff of charges; the com.
I panies ROW claiming that they were then
too generous in their conditions. The
public seems disposed to make the
business remunerative for the corpora
tions. The fret telephone lines were private
| lines; now licenses for the exchange system
are called fer in large numbers, there being
in July of this year IT'S Licenses for eI-
| changes in all parts Of the United States.
The tendency fs 10 longer lines of communi-
cation. Ordinarily the exchange lines vary
from short lengths up to six and eight miles.
Extra-territorial lines extend from Eve to
fifty miles. As an example of the extent OF
the use of this INSTRUMENT, one New England
| company represents 5000 subscribers and TO-
600 miles of wire. The extension goes on
steadily in every part of the country. In
England, toe, the enlargement is great,
though the progress has been delayed by the
COVER nment policy, which, on the introduc-
ton of the telephone, took the ground that
it was an Infringement Of the telegraph bust
ness purchased by it 70 establish the postal
telegraph system. However, one company
in London, IN two years after its
organization, had 1000 subscribers. In q
recent report this company shows that Is, 522
"telelogues" had ben sent IN = single day for
1918 subscribers ii penny each. Between
Liverpool and Manchester eight circuits of
thirty-six miles each are in operation. In
France in March of this year Paris COM
pany reported 1892 Subscribers and an av-
erage of 122,56S calls a week. There are
200 miles Of cable under ground and ninety
ak miles over housetops in Paris controlled
by this company. The government is srrang-
ing for The connection by telephone OF the
chief towns throughout the republic. Ger
many has been prompt in avaiIing herself CT
this invention. Berlin has l59 stations with
800 miles of network The telephone is
operated by the government. At Hamburg
and other towns there are telephone rooms
in the postofices. In Belgium 1000 lines are
working. Russia, Spain, Italy, Portugal,
Central and South America and the West
India Islands are eagerly adopting what is
now regarded as an indispensable facility Of
business. Statistics prepared in June
last may be given in round num-
bers as 5000 subscribers in England,
2600 in France, 1000 in Germany,
and about the same number in Belgium,
1000 in Italy, and 80 on. The improve
ments in the instruments themselves, and in
the wires employed, are matters for the
scientific more than for the ordinary under
standing, though the theory that, as in tele-
graph, the best transmitting wire ought to be
used, impres'es one as sound senss. The
circumstance is recorded that telegram ef
ffty-four words and telephone dispatch Of
119 words were sent simultaneously over one
wire. This suggests the adaptation of the
telephone TO the regular telegraph wire. Az
expressing the practical importance of the Y
subjects TO be considered at the Telephone
Convention, let it be remembered that 1000
instruments are shipped weekly from the |
source of supply to the various exchanges,
and that the average in New England is al |
ready one telephone to less than every sixty
inhabitants.