Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-19
TELEPHONE CHANGE
Mysteries Of The HELLO" Gifls Homo
Explained by Manager Murray.
HOW ELECTRICITY Is CONTROLLED
An Hour Among Wires, Cables, Storage
Batteries, Moiar Generators aud
Multiple Spring Jack.

Rocky Mountain Boil Telephone com.
rany toR Nrws representative today
o. he showed him through auI OK.
planned the 4oinila aud mysteries of tho
new exchange building on State street,
10 which reference was made In these
columns Lost evening, "bc sure aud
imprcss 10 upon the public mind that
when lhc tuo central station Is wanted
there must be but Two rugs-ous Tor
Tho operator aul tho other a1 o llgual
TINT the conversation b. cndsdU
THAT" continued MI Murray, uh
q parmoncu, rule nHj will no. be dovi.
nioi from in any particular. Patrons
VIII sooner uf la.sr have to icarn tha.
fac. Ringing Tor tho party wanted
10y them, w hcra.o'1io, is a method
.ha' viIl be entirely done away with
ni'ur tonight. That matter Will bi
attended, 70 Tor thom by csnua.
liinoy iuliat on ringing why OF course
loiay AID c1u'u.iun will uclotaarly
.oll1w. But We DO MT alugclsuI
continued trouble or annoyance IRON
this force OF habit We bulluvn t1.t
the intelligence Of our aubscflbcri Will
HnGn make them familiar with tho
iuh1itciy rinpler aud superior method
which We propose 20 adopt"
| Prior 90 this Nir. Murray had taken
thU writer through the entire building
beginning 10 the basement aud ending
ou the third aud top floor. The wilder.
ness Of overhead wiros tten on tho
streets enter the basement IN serlos
Of metallic cables which center ln a
suutcruuCau passage beginning al tho
iu,OrsIcll0n Of Slnlo and First South
street. There are 100 wires or 90 pairs
ia each cattle and 900 Of them iormi.
nto In the building while the equip.
meut provides Tor 1000. Il will thui
be- seen that the company has had an
vye to the future In the placing OF their
appliances.
Tue building 10 flfopfooi throughout
aud The wires oncHHol 90 they are, IA a
! specially prepared unintiAmablc wool
, / rn covering nre also amply protected.
, / The wires from the cables are couveytt
! directly 10 tho basement disiributinl
board and attached IN q manner easily
and perfectly understood by cleo.
trioiauu but In a way that Ia lar from
plain 10 those uuinltihted In the way,
> 10 controlling anu using the subtle
! Huid. Connected with this board IA d
. safety device upon which there are
4 inuumerablo arrest wires calculated 10
, | prevent iHiury 20 mechanism or human
, litu Ia CasH Of crossing Of wires IN
the streets with the electric light or
. | railway cOmpaniu'. GhO arrest
wires are worry delicate, but at tht
some time ntr5ng Hni true, gagged
ro 1901 10 dUucCI any extra current that
may Hash into the building from
GAUGES above designated, A part OF
this rumu board 10 the apparatus
designed 10 prevent accidents from
liFutuius.
"Llghtulug, you know" said Mana.
gOr Murray, "lJyus the ground, sud
would rather 20 into it thnn Rayvuuru
. else. Knowing this 10 be true We hay,
provided especially 10 accommodate Il Ia
that direction aud Nc the sumv tin,
Z have quite naturally taken the pr0cau,
ton 10 pT0iuCt Ourselves"
, This protection Dr. afforded by small
coils OF wires which readily yield {,
heavy currents VI lightning, by burn
, ing out and opening up 70 as 10 allow
: the unseen but all powerful agent G.
Jumps space aud descend into mother
. earth, Instead Of being flashed 10 The
| apartment Of the operators, where d
,, would cause death and destruction.
From the bsaumUnt tic wires ar,
carried up 7a3 auait 90 the Duurat'
ing rooms. The power room Is also IL
tAs blsumUnt, In 10 uru two mntUl
generators, ono runs constantly. The
b ut.erI II held ga reserve Tor CmlryoncS
D Crsrs. TIE current from seven @. m
. until II O'clock midnight IS iuruishe,
r ~ tue tltrtric light cJmpa1y. IN,
. rOwpr Tor the remain loo OF tns time 70
{ supplied by the Tol5ph.n,s co. itstl
j IL min storage battery gr electric rsser
volr. Ia this room rs % mos; iugeniou
device the sIlaish current Is divHrtut
Il.D an alternating current for sucl
uses az are nuoHgprF.
on tho hgtt n.Of the public station
. with nvO line s9ulIiug anu ta,klUl
01.tns-l,ug dis,auct-wili TO i.cg,el,
On tgB second will be- tuU yliCcs OF "a,
| president, manager treasurer and sec
lelsfy.
4 On lao thiri iloor, where the shaft oil
. the distributing board wives leiminntss
tho witts guu in pairs, flRbt Gui loit
one sot % tho UlumgrntUIs ar Callinl
. drlps AMI the other 20 the multiple
b srrlug Jacks, manipulated ly the Uper
z ulOF,
. Immediately baokloi this isIIhe desl
b Of tho che, Ur IreslliuE operator. Anu
a "a wonderful arrangement itis, givlu.
Z That Important pertOnagp absolute con
3 troll over evory operator In the fogu
+. aud making 10 possible for her TO hea
3 | tlesllE atest conversation that any gli
, may attempt 10 Claudcalinely carry Oh
, wish u iriruu, IHllti " o. sweetheart
4 IL 10 "a now invention, MI Murray
/ admits that 10 VIII rrItnuly ruceiv,
, the ~ viii and antagOnl5m Of the glrls
/. but, said he, al. % good servic VI
b want and must have as We are here FOL
) business"
When this article Is read by NEW
r subscrlbeTs this evening The chang
d will have been made from the Old L
/, thuneW building, and that without th'
!. slightest inconvenience % patrons VINO
[ would not have been able 10 tell OF ans
r transfer hal they not been hpprisea u
4 that fact.
p. A formal opening and reception VII
, DO held by the company's officers q
1 the now place OF business within th'
next few days