The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-25
TALK TO KINGMAN
New Telephone Line Reached
Here Last Night.
FREE LINE WEDNESDAY
Can Converse Over the New
Line Then For Nothing.

Last night at o'clock the telephone
into the city and stopped at Taylor's
barn on South Market street. II will prob
ably take until next Wednesday before
the line is in working order so that con-
versation can be carried on. It Will then
be possible to converse with the citizens
of Garden Plain, Goddard, Cheney, New
Murdoch and Kingman. The completion
Of the Kingman circuit adds forty-four
miles of telephone line to the Missouri
and Kansas system.
Mr.. L. F. Duggan said yesterday that
his company was making new and needed
improvements right along and would con-
tinue TO do so. The material is now on
the ground TO build another extension
west from Wellington to Mayfeld, Milan,
Conway Springs and Argonia. Work will
commence on this line in the very near
future. AS 1t is now there are thirty-ive
towns in the immediate neighborhood of
Wichita that can be communicated with
by telephone. BY the latter part of Au-
gust the system which now extends from
Kansas City to Emporia will be built on
to Newton and then all the towns on this
circuit can talk to Kansas City, st. Louis,
Chicago, New York, Boston and all the
intermediate points. By this route it Will
be possible to reach nearly all of the
cities of the south.
There viii soon be double metallic line
from Wichita to Arkansas City which will
greatly facilitate matters, especially in
getting quicker service. There is now an
agreement between the MissGIri and Kan
sas company and the Northern Oklahoma
Telephone company whereby any one on
their system can be able to talk with
Blackwell, Newkrk. Kildare, Ponca
City, Duck Creek, Tonkawa and Chill
Deco, Oklahoma. The connection is made
at Arkansas City. The line will soon be
built on TO Guthrie and other prominent
Oklahoma towns. The double metallic
line TO be erected will take in the towns
Of Winfield, Mulvane, Belle Plain, We'll
lington, Arkansas City, Gueda Springs
and Derby
If the KIngman line Is in working order
Wednesday Manager Duggan intends to
have an opening day, as it were. That
is, any one who wishes TO talk can do so
free of charge in order to show the public
now easy one can hear over a long dis
tance phone.
A new switch board has been ordered for
this city and it will be put in within a
few days. 1t will have five hundred drops
Another operator will be engaged, thus
making the service vastly better. So
rapidly has the number Of phones in
creased here that the present force can
not attend to the work properly. During
certain hours of the day there are be-
tween twenty and twenty-five calls for
each operator at once to answer. Each
one now has one hundred phones or drops
TO attend, but as soon as the new board
is put IN the number viii be decreased 10
seventy live, thus giving them an oppor-
tunity to answer quicker. 1t IS the inten-
ton to give what is known as a six sec
ond service. That is, no one will have 60
wait longer than six seconds for a re-
Spouse from central and of course It viii
be much less than that unless there Is a
rush on.
The operator will have exclusive control
over the new switch board for long dis
tances. This viii be quite a convenience
as the long distance phones are used
considerably now. In each OF the whole
sale houses q long distance transmtter
will be put in and everything done to
perfect the system. Before snow flies
Wichita citizen can telephone TO New
York City If they want TO pay the price.