The Coconino sun., 1891-07-11

SOMETHING NEW ABOUT TAXI
INC BY WIRE.
improvements Made Lately I'm the Tcis-
phone servioe--Thcre Are n Hun
dred Thousand Initru-
ments In Use.

1t is estimated that there are over
1000 cities and towns, containing near
lily 100, 900 telephone subscribers,
which are connected by over 100, 600
miles of wire, affording the means OF
personal ter-communicatio to 3d.
900, 900 people, says the New York
News. In New York City about TO-
900 subscribers are connected by 25,-
900 miles OF wire, and they use the
telephone over 100, 900 times day.
A careful calculation shows that dur
ing the last year over $50, 600, 900 con-
versations were carried on by tele-
phone in the United States,
The rapidly and constantly growing
Increase in the extent to which the
telephone is used is due To the great
improvements that have been made in
its efficiency for short and long dis
tances. The long-distance telephone
lines of one of the great telephone
companies embrace territory between
western Pennsylvania and the sea-
board, taking in all the principal and
important towns in that district on the
western extremity. The C6mpany has
Pittsburgl Cleveland and Buffalo. 1t
now reaches the important towns in
New England and as far south as
Washington.
New York has always been and Is
the great radial point and In d great
measure, oil lines run to New York.
A great deal Of New England business,
however, centers in Boston, and Buff
falo also forms another center.
These long distance lines are opor-
ated in metallic circuits, That IL, in.
stead OF having d single steel wire
using the earth as return wire. all
the ordinary noises and inductionS 81
the old telephone have been avoided
by the use of tive copper wires, thus
making Complete metallic circuit.
BY this means not only are the out
side noises avoided, but very perfect
results, indeed, are gained, so that
between long distances conversations
may be carried on and business tran
sactions carried out as easily as if the
persons We're in one room. As mat
ter OF fact these lines are often used
for holding directors meetings, a
number Of directors being in one city,
Boston for instance, and the others In
New York. They can talk together at
meeting conducted in this way al
most as well as II they were all in the
co Rn nd hY, 4
men owning large manufacturing in
terests use the long distance lines
freely.
A Now England manufacturer may
have the lines put in his New York
Office, and for all practical purposes
be here as near his factory in New
England as il it were in the Sand
building,
The extension OF these long lines in
metallic circuits has brought about a
remodeling of nearly all the telephone
exchanges connected with the long
distance lines. In New York. Phila-
delphia and Boston and all the larger
places a great extension OF wire has
been made underground and in cables,
in which everything is laid out TO be
operated on metallic circuit plan.
InNew York at the present time.
out CT nearly 10000 local sub
scribers, 1000 are provided with me-
tallic circuits and long-distance tele-
phone instruments, BY means OF
these they have very much improved
local service, and can at any moment
talk with any one Of total OF 50, 900
telephone subscribers in that part of
the country east of Cleveland.
In Boston a new exchange for 5000
subscribers is about TO be opened and
it will accommodate as many local
subscribers as may desire to change TO
the new system.
reference is frequently made"
said General Superintendent Clifford
of one of the big telephone companies
TO a News reporter, Ito what has been
done in other countries In regard to
improving the telephone. In the last
fortnight however mass meeting
was held in London 10 protest against
the bad service there of the National
Telephone company, and to demand
that the company provide metallic
circuits and make other improvements
which have already been made by
companies In the United States"