New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-26
NEV TELEPHONE SYSTEM
ADVANTAGES rs CHEAPNESS AND FFFlOltNOf
OVER TIE PRESENT SERVICE
cI AMID EnR
The Metropolitan Telegraph and Telephone Com

CLAIMED FORT.
The Metropolitan Telegraph and Telephone Ooni-
many which has had q monopoly OF the telephone
business In Ncw-York for so long. will soon nave
healthy rival in the Stronger Automatic EXCHANGE
Comnanv which has opened offices Mt NO. 500
Rroodway II what certain business men believe Is
true The Stronger Company IL Independent OF the
Be Company does not pay that corporation royaiheS
and asserts that 1t has perfect right 10 operate i
telephones I'm any city or town where a FRANCHISE ca"
be secured II promises relief in New-lorK from the
present high rate and says It will give the best OF
service for $50 a year, or almost etmtu oi "nat
the Metropolitan Company now charges.
The system used by the Stronger Company Is
new one and besides giving cheaper and II IS saiu'
better service. 1t will do away with the sometimes
impudent and lazy telephone girl at the centrii
office Connections can BE- made by the subscriber
in his own Office without any outside assistance
The telephone can be IN operation at the Broad
way Offices Here IS description Of how II WORKS :
rho telephones now I'm are not changed In any
devree hui the Stronger machine, which takes 'ne
pp"nnac,ed with the telephone and makes all c0nnec
lions automatically ON the telephone shell Is d ~"
III de and thousands the NTH key being the release
Key The subscriber taps ont the desired huhpeI on
the keyboard which, regsteRg on the maCnI Win a That
of the number he desires to reach The conh'cton -
mde simultaneously with the taps on TO-" mea O OIs s
Telephone I'm connection with those OF another can ~
81 lv excessively pressing me Keys which '"o
circuIt closer TO If the man Mt the eiePn0ne
No oss wishes to place himself In connection VIII
ielrnhone NO 81 he will DO 80 by pressing TIE kc's
marked hundreds three times then the Key nnrfed
tens once and then the key marked units hvr tlmeS
IIis circuit closer Is then In contact with wire tcrh
No 3I5 The person at the telephone NO. 30 VIII
take down his telephone and the two are then aDie
converse. ..,,o.
The whole mechanism OF the Stronger patent taxes
nm "A space OF by by inches. circular disc, con
sir1icted ~ hard rubber any other suitable non
conductor Is the central figure In the machine. Inc
discs are provided with pcrfOnons arranged IN trans
vertical and vertical rows. Through the perloratiohS
extend thc wire connections TO the main line wires
Their use Is conduct the electricity when In contact
with the ccdii closing needle 10 and by way O the
line wires, TO the de.ircd sub station.
The subscriber T. never Isolated from the exchange,
II No olj T. busy linking with no 1874. and NO. 1ol
wants No 30 central can ring no 2lo up, ana III pls
Tel. him that subscriber desires 10 CONVEX Ne WIN
him There BE- no errors In the call the same
numbers being registered on dial on the Telephone
ontng the key board + regiseren on tn" disc Az
the central Office. Thus the person calling 40 30
through the keyboard No. :}0S registered on the
dial ON the telephone in front Of him.
The Stronger Company is capitalized at S1oOOooo
and there is no stock for sale II Is Operating lis syS
TEN I'm Iaporte, Ind, and the officers Of the company
,nt II has proved II success. Tile company was cor
narrated under the laws Ot Illinois. The OlhCcr, are ::
NJ H. Meyer, president: j. Harris secretary, ana j. H.
Theolnld manager Of New York ONCE.