New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-13

lection of the system until he had gone to some
hotel where the most improved methods OF COM
muncation make II possible for the guest 10 order
a laundry list a cocktail. ply stefan or New
York Tribune barber or theatre tickets. or almost
anything he might need. by simply manipulating
mechanical conrivance when II placed IN MS room
for that purpose.
Besides this method Of communica ton. the IN
terrier telephone has been introduced In many
hotels and the most modern room fixture In hotei
apartment is a telephone by means OF which one
may communicate with people in the house as well
as with distant points. All this has given mucn
work and many calls for the services OF the interior
wireman who has found In the interior electric
plants a still more lucrative branch OF business
All large buildings arranged for electric light'
ing ard the conduits which run through every part
Of the great structures contain wires for lighting.
for telephonng and for telegraphing. There are
many buildings in New-york IN which every desk
Is fitted with an electric light and a telephone.
where clerks and heads OF departments tax oy
means OF a small central office. which occupies ono
Of the rooms I'm the building.
The head OF Il large concern In which the in-
terror telephone system has been introduced saio
that it had opened a field Of Industry. Here
,ofore ne sail "a telephone girl was an employe
of the telephone company and worked AT COM
many switchboard. There were comparatively rev
of them and they unknown. except as 70
their voices. In all places except 'heiio omces.'
N.W1IaNs.' he continued. there - a tcNpnoho
Girl in nearly every large office building. Where
there. are twenty or less telephones a switchboard
f. M, needed but where there more than
twenty stations II is essential TO have a switch
hoard ard that gives employment TO one tele-
phone operator or more.
some of these systems ar" Independent, ana
others are connected with the long distance SER
vice THE time was" an interested manufacturer
said "wh.n electric light and telephones were
available only to people who lived IN places wnere
,ber. were central Offices distributing points
for th.s. commodities. Nowadays one may nave
huildug il situated fifty miles nom nowhere me
large public Institutions. IN" prisons ana asyiums
arr, all equipped with lighting ara teiephoning
rI,n,- and the OCEAN steamers nave tneir
isleuhonr plants 10y means Of which officers may
communicate. without leaving tneir posts or duty.
4 new feature In t,lephoning VIII soon be intro.
,luc,d The steamship land offices are being ntted
with interior telephOn" systems ana switchDoirds
I'm. steamers are already furnished with teephon-
ing parapLernaa. and In the near future man
may h.. able TO telephone TO his otice or 10 ms
home while the steamer on which n. came from
Europe ~ being ted up ana p'l'r' me PasSe'Se'
could 20 ashore. =, IL.
The Telephone wire l. thrown over IN. side with
the first hawser." said IN explanation. 'ano
+. made. fast 10 the land wire with snap splice
Then TN. passenger VINO SITS at IN" shp's tee-
nhnne i'm the library or the smoking room calls
i'm his home his business ONO" IN New-lork. or
onvwhsr. i'm the country. ana talks as he would
from his telephone. am sur" that many
r.nnl. will take advantage of tn. privilege. be-
cause il l. certainly more satisfactory 10 hear the
voice of the newly arrived traveller. and from the
shin af that than to receive a telegram.
The large theatres and opera houses are also
hoing fitted with interior telephones. and the speak
ing tubes leading TO the orchestra and 20 various
parts OF the house and stage Will soon be things
OF the past