Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-06-11
no WORKING WOMAN IS HAPPIER
Ter Hours Are Short,
Ter Surroundings
comfortable. and
There Is d Never
failing Interest
b Her Work,

\ Her Work.
@HE pulse Of a great city is its telephone
exchange. Like mathematics or George
Washington. Ii cannot lie. There you
ny hear the mighty civic heart beat and
ow of surety how strong or weak its
tisations. From day to day the unerr!rg
eord goes on. You may read. hear or inn
ine what you will of business prosperity
failure. but when you put your finger
on the telephone pulse conjecture van.
hes. and you know!
For those who deve at the noting Of
ents the telephone exchange is q study
ut is never-ceasingly interesting. itmcves
lery day. You have only to look at its
counts 10 SEQ how business Is going; II
ide is brisker or more limp, whether the
pes are progressive or rctrosrading.
hatever is going on in the financial and
Numerical world is unfalteringly recorded,
u TO gainsay its mechanical accuracy
iuld be like questioning the multiplication
Die!
ChtcngO's Telephone Habit.
chicago has more telephones TO the per-
htage Of its population than any other
b in the world. In other words. Chicago
the telephone habit. a sure sign OF the
kess!ty for time saving. II has more calls
day than any other city in the world.
Is a community OF great distances. and
ft.ons of i,-as the stock-yards for In
fnce-are so intimately connected with
syntown life that although they he To-
ed some five miles from Il they arc actu-
" at the city's Utmost core. The lumber
IDS district is one which fuctuates. There
old order of things Is ever being sue
ded by the new, and this the record shows
la exquisite precision. Residential tele-
)nes are another outcome Of Chicago's
lat stretch OF streets and avenues. There
no such proportion Of private telephones
Y ANY other place. All this indicates an
nense amount Of telephone business for
cago. an amazing number Of calls. and
seauently an unprecedented gift OF work
l women. since every telephone operator
N Chicago Is II woman.
Wt Five Hundred Operators.
4 business telephones there are IN this one
ilt b sixteen thousand and several hundreds,
ri well as over 5000 phones In private houses.
M women operators there are nearly go. and
N these over 20 are located In the Central
NJ lhange. The rest are distributed about
III other stations. such as Oakland. Harri.
III Dearborn. North, Oak Park, Lake View
NJ iodiawn and other suburban districts.
here are several good and sufficient rea
N b why women are preferred as telephone
W traitors. In the first place the clear fem
~ be quality OF voice suits best the delca.,
" trument. Then girls are usually NOR,
. ha hot. nj al
Women are more sensitive, more amenabl'
II discipline. far gentler and more forbear
N than men," says General Manager Angus
IN i!bbard undaun,edly. when they fis
be here they are tested. not only as I,
teness of hearing but as to mental alert
NJ ,.
va Test Il Dinicult.
n amy girls fail 10 stand the test. Thes,
III Png to the wearlsome class OF persons VIII,
I'll always saying: I beg pardon How
II ~ I didn't catch what you said pleas,
III eat.' IL Isn't so much lack of good hear
TIL las Il is lack OF "A quickly moving inteili
III &c. We couldn't have operators like tina
Ill and here. II would burst UP the concern
III en- girls are able to successfully pas
III examination they begin to be trained
LIZ Insist upon their speaking distinctly an,
n Fteously. The rising infection is also In
III I'D upon. II makes a pleasant soundin
NJ Under, so that when a subscriber roars
W nme 1901 main, and get move on you
n cad OF the operator dropping the te.e
N ne and running OF to hit the grun
IF tthed one with club. as a man would fe,
n lned to do. the girl answers pleasant
LII a rising infection, and hard words q
IT AS blows are saved.
m IN Women Are More Patient.
boys and men are less patient. The
N Q always the element Of fight in then
4 IN spoken to roughly and rudely the
III not going to give the soft answer. NJ
II IN. And every man Is crank when b
n . on a phone. The personal equatio
4 IDS for naught He Is looking into III
N TX wooden countenance OF the receive
Z IL doesn't inspire MIN with respectfl
n teness. He Is In hurry; II he wei
Il he would not be using the phone. 1
IS mad II he is not instantly answered
8Yl II busy, please call again comes
II1, and most consummately mad II
Ks he Is In any way suffering neglect.
hen he talks back: HI, there, centra
you asleep? I've been ringing for G
and a half, For heavens sake wal
To which jeremiad the patient operate
back sweetly. Number please? wi
pleasantest OF infections.
10 you think man operator would
4? Not often. So you see why won,
best"
u vertheless the telephone girl Is n
SD. Not In Chicago. She Is taught
ser Impotence with patience, inami
$ with kindness and consideration, b
be,ide the hasty subscriber who 10
Ii that the phone Is feminine. and d
= him self OF big. big D. Mr.FHi
Is a strict disciplinarian, but he
ectly just. The operators must do the
oct duty. but they may not suffer
ny. Whenever any profanity or 10
uage mas come over the phone IN
,cribcr has been promptly cut OF. a
has been notified that his telepho
Id be at once removed II he did not cor
person and apologize TO the insult
ator,
lis has been a bitter pill, but oh-sw;
ID a-many times during the past !
N e. Generally tits some hasty clerk who