The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-21
TELEPHONE SERVICE
To BIO Introduced In WoRt Virginia
by n Now Company
OH STRONGER AUTOMATIC SYSTEM
a Description ot tho Working Of this
Innovation In TclophonIng-So Con-
trail Exchange Operators Needed,
and Nobody Knows whom you Con.
meet Yourself with.

Tho secretary OF state has issued o
charter for tho Peoples Telephone and
Construction Company. which 10 TO
have It's principal otiico In Wheeling.
The incorpora,ors are Hon. J. J. Woods,
ox.spCaker OF tho house Of delegates;
W. D. Johnson, OF Geo. W. Johnson'a
Sons; W.. II. Higgins, son.in-law Of Mr..
John'on; ex.Stato Senator J. u. Som.
muryille, all OF Wheeling. and Charles
Seldcn, OF Baltimore. superintendent OF
the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph lincs.
Tho company has q capital a,ock OF
100000. It is authorized to construct,
own, operate. lease and coll telephone
aud telegraph lines, electric light anu
power plants and generally to construct
and operate or lGnso electric Bystcms.
For the present the intention is under
stood 10 be TO Introduce u now and I'm
proved telephone system backed by
ample capital. Tho parties Interested
have desired to keep tho matter Quie.
until tho company was organized md
will not SAY much about their plans.
To an lSrgLLIGESCER reporter MI.
Woods said:
awe are hardly ready TO say much
for publication, but l think there will
DO very keen interest In our telephone
system when it is shown. II | were to
tell YOU that We shall give subscriber
instantaneous and secret connection.
that We shall do away with the cost und
Inconvenience Of tho central exchange
in short that we shall give a much
better service than has been dreamed
Of by the public aud at n much Ices
cost, you would hardly take that seri-
OuSly, would your
awe are prepared to do just that. 1t
il done by Il strictly automatic device Of
astonishing simplicity. Anybody who
can count can operate ii. | have seen
it working practically and know that it
does all that ia claimed for it. There
are four keys, three for calls and ono
to release. II you want No. 200 you
touch tho hundred key twice and ring
your bell. That is all there is Of it. The
instrument caunot make q mistake. II
tho subscriber you want is in and wishes
to talk you get him with absolute Ger
cainty. You do not have TO communi-
cate with any Central" There is All
! automatic central" that does i. all.
You cannot DO delayed, you cannot be
cut iuto or cut of, for there is nobody
10 do it. You may lock up tho central
exchange, as l saw done, and 80 away
as long as you please.
The system has been in use in La
| Porte, Indiana, for about two years in
an experimental way, and tho subscrib.
ers there told US that they would have
nothing else. They were enthusiastic
in its praise. The system has boon
much improved since twas installed in
La Porte. at first the work was done
with six wires. Now it is done with
! two, which makes it commercially prac-
ticnble. Tho patents 20 to the very
base OF an automatic system and are
backed by capital to defond them, but
they are not likely to be assaulted. The
| patents are known generally as the
Stronger patents, but thore are others
that belong to tho parent company and
which We are licensed to use, together
with all improvements.
QulOlIlHtlC lcNlCo llakGs Il lcIC-
phone exchange possible in the small.
est community, for there is nc expense
| for operators. Tho wires are strung.
! the device put in. and the system is
ready to operate itself. Atthc same time
| any number OF subscribers can be scrv-
| cd in the Same way-l0,000 ii necessary.
Before long we shall have Il plant in OPP
n~rnriou in Wcst Virginia, and | think
the people will bo astonishci when
they gee it"
Mr.. Woods declined to say moro up.
til the company shall have perfected its
| organization under the law and is ready
| for active buginess. lie would not say
whether the first plant Of the system is
to be installed in Wheeling or else
| where in tho state. As the reporter
| was leaving Mr.. Woods added that be.
lore very long plants under this system
| would be bobbing up all over the coun-
Try, and they would come to stay.