The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-11
GIRLS IN BLACK
Telephone Company Uniforms
Their Lady Operators.
REBUILDING ENTIRE PLAN |
Wichita Can Soon Say Hell
10, New York"

Wichita. will at an early date be more
closely connected with New York City
The connection will exist only by tele-
nbone. but that will be considered pretty
closh when a person can speak in a nat
uraI tone Of voice with a friend or bust
ness man in New York City and stand in
the little telephone box in the Missouri
and Kansas Telephone company's ofhce
in the Biting block.
The metallic circuit connecting En-
poria with Newton and on TO Wichita
is fast approaching completion, and when
this circuit is completed the line will be
unbroken between this city and New
York.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company is one of the many corporations
in this city that nave prospered with the
good times that prevail in this section
The company is now spending the sum Of
s22, 900 in equipping and rebuilding its en-
tire service here. The company has added
over a hundred new subscribers in the last
year, which has been brought about by
the many new concerns starting up In
business and additional residents coming
TO the Peerless Princess to live
Mr.. L. F. Duggan, the pleasant and
genial local manager OF the company,
was seen by a reporter for the Eagle at
his Office yesterday, with his coat of and
sleeves rolled up. He was working IN
the switchboard room, placing the new
apparatus in position. connecting new cir
cults made necessary by the increasing
nNS farll-
tiles by the additional subscribers to the
telephone service, and while ne worked
he talked of the new connection being
built that would place Wichita within
the commercial hearing of the great met
ropUlis in the east, as we'll as all the large
cities in between. Mr.. Dugsan is prac-
teal and expert electrician as well as
business manager of considerable ability
His connection with the company's local
business here and in the southwest has
been such as to have made him many
friends among the business men and citi-
zens Of this city and elsewhere. He has
made the service Of the company equal
to all that could be asked and besides has
associated with him in his exchange a
force Of operators, both in the day and
the night force, who are efficient in their
work, polite and accommodating to the
subscribers, and taken all around the ser
vice can be summed up in two words, eX-
cellent, unexcelled.
One Of the latest Innovations introduced
in the regulation of the exchange force
has been an order which the company has
issued as a request, that all the young
ladies employed by the company shall
dress in a modest attire, black being
adopted. with white collar, on the order
of English clerks and salesladies in the
stores of London and other large cities
There are many reasons given for the
adoption of this rule by the company
which has been given great favor 10y the
young ladies, all of whom were quite
pleased with the idea
The local company has recently added a
long distance service and separate ex-
change connection from that of the local
service, which facilitates business both
for the subscriber and the company.
The new lines added and the reconstruc-
ton Of the old service has not only added
TO the appearance of the city's old poles
and dead wires, but helps to make an ap-
pearanee that looks like business and
uniform regularity in the laying out of the
plants equipment.
When the service between Newton and
Emporia is completed business man or
any one else desiring to telephone to Kan
sas City can do so at the small cost Of
/ 81 % for three minutes talk, 10 ST. Louis
for the same length of time for about 81 %,
and all points east of st. Louis at the
rate of l cent per mile for a talk OF five
minutes. In many eases this might often
/ help TO save a person more than the
amount of the message or bring a relative
to the sick bed of a relative and many
| other equal reasons that may have i'm
portant bearing on matters of large i'm
portance.