The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-01-06


Stronger A utomstfo system.
We have been working ten OF your
Stronger phon 90 ON the "Blook System
since October 4. 1877, averaging $500
trains Per month, In addition 20 the other
work that the phones are called upon 20
given us ensirs satisfaction and that we
bave had comparatively littis trouble
with them on account Of their getting
out OF order. Notwithstanding She CON-
slant use Of the phone dap and night In
my Office, I have made no change Of
Yours truly,
(signed) George X. Fersoson.
Transfer Agent
Augusta, Ca, June IA, 1899.
Augusta Packing Company:
Dear Sir:-Your inquiry Of June 18th
nj hand. In reply, / take pleasure In say
ing that l consider the Stronger Auto
matio telephone far superior to the phone
Ssr ses u ni rrer,r the Ausomaso
service, and they uss 10 whenever they
oan reach the parties they want via that
system. To my knowledge the city pats
~ per year mere for the Strcwger phi one
than tie Beli company bid, and the city
has about two dozen phones.
The Automatic phone IL 20 quick aud
reliable that think Its coutinued success
here n an assured fact.
Yours truly.
(signedl Bryan Lawrsnoe,
President Augusta Packing Company.
Auburn, N. Y, May ~, 1899.
Auburn business Mems Association;
Dear Sir lin reply to yours Of the 2oth,
i am not personally interest ID In the Au-
tomato telephone or Its company. but l
take pleasure in speaking OF its good
qualities. We have one In the Board Of
Trade rooms, and 10 is used by nearly all
of our directors In their places OF bustl
ness, and can say that II gives uhquali-
ned satisfaction.
Our business men are pleased with 1t (;
Il works to perfection. There Is nothing
like being your own Central Office; you
can call q dozen men In as many minutes
without the least hitch
You need have no hesitAncy In auaran-
tseing satisfaftio With the Automatic;
they will speak their own praises II
for any phone ever saw.
Yours respectfully,
(Signsd)
Charles g. Adams, Secretary.
Albert Lea, Minn., June %. 1899.
Mr.. Herbert II. Niles, Boston, Mass.
Dear Sir Your inquiry Of the goth at
hand ana will b. pleased to give you all
the Information possible oouoerping our
switohs hoard and the service 1t tenders.
years at which time of inst ALA on there
were forty subsorioers, and at the present
date va are handling one hundred and
fifty subscribers, and an order pending
for sixteen more at the present writing.
We also rave eight long distance lines
In our office, over which our local phones
do service to the Twin Citiss, Minns-
apolis and st. PnuI, and other points ut
Q much fur thsr distsnos-therefore each
subscriber enjoys the uae Of his phone,
not only for local work, but for all long
distance srvioe as we'll.
The service rendered by the switch
board 10 most excellent and very rapid,
constant service day and night, and no
waiting for girl, which 10 very aggrn-
waiting to good natured man.
and am always ready 10 give the Stronger
Automatic sy stem q very good word, ana
I think the ~ stem fifty years In advance
Of anything IN the line OF telephones yet
Invented. As for further informAtion,
you may feel fires to correspond ut any
time.
For references, you may write Ex :
Mayor q. n. wilkinson, present Mayo r
4. Wilson, First National bank. Albert
Lea, National Bank, Knsttold q Brown.
and any other users Of the system In Al
bert Lea.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) George W. johnson.
Manager.
The foregoing are only samples Of testi-
moniais innumerable as to the superiority
of the Automatic system over the old
manual Belly system.
DIRIGO TELEPHONE co. OF ME.