Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
The Nausau Telephone Co.

! The local telephone company in
Wausau is now in use and giving better
satisfaction than the Wisconsin Tele-
| phone Co. ever did. Now what is the
matter with our company taking hold
and doing likewise. Here is what the
Wausau Central has 10 say about its
expense. ETC.:
Last Saturday the Wausau Telephone
Co. commenced furnishing service to
its IA patrons. During the forenoon of
that day crew of five men were busiy
engaged IN putting in the instruments,
which occupied very little time, mas
much as all of the connecting wires had
previously been put in and nothing
remained to be done except to fasten
the phones to the wall and make the
connections. In the afternoon messages
began to pass over the wires, and
auricular proof was furnished to sub
scribers and the public generally that
Wausau had finally secured a local
telephone service with which the most
fastidious could find no fault, but rather
had unstinted words of praise for.
At this time a few facts concerning
the plant of the Wausau Telephone Co.
may prove interesting to CENTRAL
readers. Work on the line was COM
menced early in the summer under the
direction of the Board of Directors,
composed of the folloWing-named gem
tlemen: n. Heinemann, president; H.
P. Maynard, vice-president; JAS
Montgomery, secretary; w. W. Albers,
treasurer, and 6. D. Jones. Since that
time seventy-fve miles of wire has
been string; 1000 feet Of aerial cable
running from the central office to Fourth
street OF one side, and to the corner of
Second and Scott streets on the other,
has been placed in position, and IA
connections for instruments have been
made. The cable has Il capacity for
POO Wlres-that is, that many wires, each
connected with phone, may be
attached to it before additional cable
will be required. The pole lines now
up will accommodate 400 wires, so it
will be seen that the company is amply
prepared for a considerable increase in
patronage beyond what it now enjoys.
The switch board put in at the central
office is a 1S0-drop Gilliland latest i'm
proved, and the phones used were
made at Madison by the Standard
Telephone and Electric Co., and are
provided with the Mide transmitter,
made in France and considered the
very best i'll use on either continent.
The generator at the Central office is
run by water power furnished BY the
Wansau Water Works through a moter
made by the Chicago Water Meter Co.
The cost of the plant, including con-
struction and material, approximates
81 900, and with the exception of two
expert linemen, all the labor employed
from start to finish has been Wausau
labor-and, what should be also borne
i'll mind, the company is composed
entirely of Wausau people, and every
dollar that goes into its Golfers stays at
home, or, at least, does not 90 to
further enrich a big monopoly which
takes no interest in Wausau other than
to see how much money it can squeeze
out of it. When bids were received by
the company early in the summer for
the construction of the plant, including
material, the lowest submitted was
$3.50, so it will be seen that about
S., 900 was saved to the company by the
directors taking hold of the matter
personally and experimenting the
constructive work themselves.