The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-17
Usss 3,o67 Telephones Compared
With l,4O0 in Tacoma.
OVER 10, PUT IN THIS YEAR.
vunbes Has Increased Tws-fssA
since Janaasy, 1s0s-Nsse Tosa
$4,000 switches made Daiiy-LSag
Distance Wires GSswing In Faver
-8sp~risieaa~at r. G. Ahissa
Gives Statistics Of Cosstrscatoa.

es,v ard the use made Of them. In q
fasr index 60 the business conditions In
that city" This was the remark made last
night By r.. G. Miiiare, local snperfasend-
ent OF the Sunset Telephone 4 Telegraph
Company ia Seattle. II the remark Be
true, tise business Of Seattle has certainly
Increased remarkably within the last
year Since January l. i.ias new tese-
phones have been Installed in the city.
ard nes ones are being called for every
day The telephone has ceased To be q
luxury, as was the case few years ago.
and has becomes positive necessity.
AT the present time there are in Seattle
a,ag7 telephones. These are being Used
more than formerly: so much more so
that the telephone company has been
forced TO employ many new operators
within the last few months- In Isss there
were LA telephones In use here. The
number has therefore increased more
than twofoid. One indication OF the
amount Of BUSINESS transacted By means
OF the telephone IL that. in the twenty
four hours ending July >. N.m local
switches were made. this being about an
average days business. Business men
have also come 20 appreciate the value
of q telephone 30 much nov that an ex-
tension phone ts as much part OF MS
desk as an inkstand or pen
In the towns which have telephone SER
vice the number Of local subscribers In
increasing. as well az the long distance
business between those places and Seat
tie According 10 Mr.. MiIIard's figures
there are Loo telephones in use In Taco
ma. .soa In Spokane. nearly 100 In Walla
WaiIa 800 TN whatcon. 100 In Fatrhaven.
~ in Everett. g. In Snohomish. In each
place there has been marked Increase
over the number used last year.
Long Distance I.tnes Popular.
The volume OF business between these
places and Seattle has also increased TO
nearly double what IL was year ago.
The constant demands In Seattle for con-,
nection with these places was such that
the telephone company put In an ex-
change down town so that their patrons
could use the long distance wires without
disturbing local trafYic.
Telephone men who visit the city say
that the system here Is superior to any
In the United States. mainly on account
Of the fact that copper line wires are
used here almost entirely. The under
ground sysfem also gives a more salts
factory service than the old overhead
system
throughout the state new lines have
been finished lately and many new ones
ars IN course CT construction. At the
present time Seattle Is connected with
every town ef any size from Mexico 10
British Columbia and from the Pacific
coast 10 the Ruwky mountains. establish
ing communication with over 100 cities
and towns The amount OF business
which Is done over this system has tusti-
fed the company in putting in the new
lines,
az the new long distance lines which
are In course az construction and are
completed In the state STR. Willard gives
description. He IL in charge OF the con-
struetlon force IN the Northwest division.
south boundary of King county 90 British
we have a great number of men At
work in my division. which is the only
one am well informed about" said he.
1.-THE other divisions are also busy, but
they have not strung so much lire az
have We now have completed the con-
rec, Wash, and are beginning one to
Sultan, The line recently completed TO
Arlington ls working we'll, and IN the las,
six weeks We have added fcrty new sub
seribers In Arlington.
Ccnssrucsson Wark Of the Year.
THE line 20 sedro- wooiiey, just finish
ed opens tap with sixty telephones In the
exchange within two weeks We have a
line connecting whatcont with Silver
Beach. Big Lake. Clear Lake. Hamilton
Lyman. Piichuck and BRYANT aud the
line will soon be extended to Traf,an and
Fdsecofnhe. A Tine is being projected to
beuaiEtg, and we have signed thirty subj
scrihers even before the jine IL finished
A lire will soon be finished 10 Sultan. and
We will have fifteen telephones for a be-
ginning.
The biggest work We have done this
yrar Is the line from AnaruFsss 20 Coupe
ysiie, connecting all the towns tn isla ma
county One ~ the difficulties in building
this line Is a span az wire TO- feet hs.swecn
the poles over Deception mass between
Fsfalgo and WILDLY islands There Is
tisa isre ,o SnaquaimIe. the wire used IN
This line heing aluminium. This line con-
meets Seattle with Rsnton. rssaauah and
Gilman
@iu the division which 7 Suprrlntrnd
THERE have h~en over go miles Of long
distance euruer wire strung In the last
year, TIE itne 20 Republic WAS finished
Just week ago
To form an estimate If the amount %
t"iephnfie business dome locally all that
II necessary il 10 Visit the central
building on Third avenue and take a
glance az the busy operators inside In
that b1iiiins arr faFty~six aNttrhhaar,i~
and over ferfy operators az whom tbir-
ty-two are employed in the busy part OF
the day.