The San Francisco call., 1898-06-22
SOMETHING UNIQUE
 IN TELEPHONES
AN AUTOMATIC HELLO" THAT
 WILL BE WELCOMED.
The Call Is Made Mechanically and No Time Is Wasted in Shout
 ing at the Machine.

No more shall we hear the soft voice of the hello" girl or the plaintive sound of the photograph sWeetly murmuring Gall again, lines busy; no more shall good citizens swear under their breath at the delays and mistakes of the present sys- tenn, for new era in telephones may soon dawn upon a long-suffering public
 IT the automatic telephone invented by William F. Smith, the well-known archi- tect, is put in use in this city all this will come to pass.
 The labor of six long years was exhibit ed at POP Sansome street yesterday, and should the machine give as much satfs- faction in actual use as it does experi- mentally the inventors work will be crowned with success.
 The telephone is the as now used on present systems, only having plate on lower box, or in case of hand telephones on stand ard. fitted with eleven buttons, and a proving slot to show you have called up the right num- Der. These buttons numbered from to 0 inclusive and one Dis. CT dsconnecting button and are pushed down short space in slots To call up a number, the buttons are pushed down m m rotation to make up that number. For in up 1873. Push down button marked 1 to bottom or slot, and let go; 1t immediately flies back. Push down button g. let go, then button :, let go, then button 3; immediately in front at prov Ing slot. shows lS73 and at central station in similar slot on switchboard, will appear the same number, under 3S7G. the number of your telephone, and your telephone is immediately connected with the one desired When receiver, push down disconnecfing but ton. when all numbers disappear. the connect Ing plug Is thrown out. and any number you ately, without waiting for central office; often at present, ten minutes or more Should if happen the number you wish is busy, the operator at central switches on the phono- graph, and informs you. If you wish in wait, leave the telephone, and the number be- ing exposed, shows operator you are waiting soon as the line is clear. Should YOU prefer to ring up another number push down dis connecting number and rroceed as before One can readily see the subscriber is in an inde- pendent position in regard to calling and dis connecting, and the operator. who simply puts in plugs can do infinitely more work
 The new system. if adopted, will do away with half the number of girls now employed by the local company. one girl being able to answer many hundred more calls than at present.
 A corporation has been formed to handle the invention, consisting of the folIowine officers: James M. Allen, president: Wii2 liam F. Russell, vice-presfdent, and vii liam F. Smith secretary It is the Sa stockSholders intention to give the portunity to show their apnroVpI VgI of the new phone. If they do pot -a- O.. spond, MT. Smith will send it East as he has already received numerous requests to do so. There is, however. a likelihood that 1t will be introduced here. as n nnn- Der of capitalists are very much i'm pressed with the practicability of the machine.
 A number can be gained in few sec- onds, and the Milde transmitter makes the enunciator so perfect that one blovin . into 1t can be heard over a mile of wire The nickel-in-the-S machines will also be done away with. as a fiat rate of S3 to S per month will be charged. This Man ager Charles Gore says, can be done ard q sufficient profit be made.