The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-04
MAY TAKE
THEM OUT
Telephone Subscribers
Threats.
COMPLAIN OF BAD SERVICE
Many Housewives in a Movement
10 Have Their Phones
Removed.

WIN the troubles of the telanbons
company never cease? ComnIa;nts
complaints. day in and day out oo.,r
INTO the office Of Manager Cassidv
ihere Is but one word with which mfr
cassidy can answer angry patrons on7
subscribers and that is Walt"
For nearly year Manager Cassidy
mas mad enough Goals Of fire heaped m
on MS head to shrivel an ordinary
man 5 brain. The manager. however
mas gone about his duties unabashad
anu accomplishing, endeayorinp IN
turn into a perfect system of 'phoninp
an oiu and very unsatisfactory one.
ana this without dispossessing any sub
scriber of the use of his phone
III november OF last year, ten month,
"so' the new switchboard that WAS in
le'oiutionize telephoning In Honolulu
vas SET up In the new operating office
anu then the company had 20 wait for
'le expert whom the switchboard man
uiacturers had promised 10 send.
ueiay or couple of months was thus
occasioned. When the exper, com
menced his work il was found that OH
the materials We're not here. The vvo~k
OF changing the old phones into those
on the new switchboard went ON anoca
until interrupted by the visitation ~
plague, and then more angry subscrib-
ers began to send in their complai,ts
Yesterday a movement was On Co..
among the subscribers. MANY mousse
ives 20 INFORM Manager Cassidy that
."eS would remove their phones uI.Iess
no gave them better service on the
operating table and removed the noise
occasioned by induction. Several busi-
ness houses were visited by those in
'erested In the movement to have them
place their names on the lists. Some
signed and some did not. The business
man must have a phone in his office
1t is bad one or a good one
An Advertiser representative asked
Manager Cassidy whether he had any
ntimation that such a threat was IN
De put Into effect. He replied that he
had not heard of it, He was sorry that
'uch a movement was contemplated
he stated that the expert from San
francisco, Mr.. Corcoran. was at that
moment busiiy engaged in correcting
ABUSES in the wires as they ranged into
he new switchboard.
Mr. Corcoran said that the main diff
lculty In trying to give the public n
service at the present time
vas the fact that there were two sys-
ems stu In vogue, each diametricaIIv
Inherent from the other from a. scien-
if1c point of view.
The old system was the ground wire |
lass using but a single wire. This
wire IN running parallel with wires of
In electric light company caught the
INDUCTION from the live electric wire
md as a result the current ran entirely
through it and into the ground where |
ne Wire ended. At the present time in !,
connecting numbers from the new to |
ne old switchboard, a cross circuit was
ccasioned which made telephonine diff
lcult. When the new system is COM |,
'iete there Will be two wires for each |
phone, making a loop" as the cleo
ricians term ii. While running mar
ilel with the electric wire, one of the
'lres VIII take up the electric current
D carry 1t along. The second parallel
IRE with It's current running in the |
pposlte direction to the first would
ounteract the influence of the cleo
'ieity from the electric light wire-or
other words would stop it. and thus
oviate the foreign noises from the
,lephone system.
The old phone Mr.. Corcoran expects {
have transferred in about two
onths and the old switchboard con-