Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-11-17


rie CLANCY.
Cashiers Clerk-Lilla Burkhardt
Day Chief Operator-Virginia SAM
uels.
Night Chief Operator-Leah Silver
nail.
Toll operators-Louisa Bailey, Effiie
Wilson.
Relief Operator Kehler.
Operators-Dora Brown, Lura Tee
pie, Lila Grubb, Lena Wright, Celia
Rankin, Elva Clapsadel, Bessie Wright,
Ethel Pearson. Clara German, Mildred
Wall, Viola Knapp.
Relief operators-Aotha Mob, Julia
Gallagher, Mary Wiese, Daisy Horn,
Bessy vandergrift, Celia Richards,
Julia Cook, Julia Garahan, Laura
Boder, Flossie Diers.
Cuyahoga Falls-Foreman, Gus Kit
tleberger
Chief operators-Nellie Gaffney. Fan
ME Ripley.
Night operator-Miles Reed.
Barberton-Foreman, S. P. Moore.
Chief operators-Lillie Boden, Zillah
Ling.
Night operators-Ine Moore, Cora
Middleton.
After the people had left the ex-
change, the operators and their friends
were invited up to Rose hall, where
they enjoyed an hour of dancing and
general sociability. The music was
furnished by Morey's orchestra.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT.
No city in the United States can
boast of telephone exchange as COM
plete and at the same time as COM
pact as the one in this city under the
Telephone Company.
The equipment is the latest in every
particular. No room is given to old,
Out-of-date appliances, while, upon the
other hand, the company is always
ready to receive and apply new in
ventions and improvements which may
add to the efficiency Of the service to
its patrons. Good service is the COM
pany's motto, and no pains or expense
have been spared to make the sys-
TEN as nearly perfect as possible. AS
Is well known, the exchange is located
in the splendid new Hamilton building.
It occupies handsome suite of rooms
and every convenience is provided the
employees of the company.
The visitors at the exchange Friday
night We're shown every courtesy by
the officials and employees.
The intricate workings of the deli
cate apparatus were carefully explain
ed by Manager f. G. Frese and his
assistants, and the people were de-
lighted. A neat pamphlet, containing
description of the plant, was given to
each guest. From this pamphlet the
following is taken:
We will take, as an illustration, the
wire leading from phone No. 679. This
instrument is located in a residence on
East Market street. between Buchtel
avenue and Arlington street, and the
wire leading to it is part Of cable No.
2.
There are % cables, all leading into
the terminal room at the exchange.
cable NO runs from the terminal
room, underground to the corner of
Buchtel ave. and Market st. 1t con-
tains 100 pairs of wires, numbered
from l to 100 At the corner of Buch-
tel ave. and Market ST. the wires from
to 20, inclusive, are run from the
cable to box No. 1. From that point
the wires are distributed to the vari-
Gus subscribers In that vicinity. The
wire leads from phone No. 670 to the
exchange over this route, coming into
the office through the terminal head,
1t then passes to the cross connecting
board. This consists of double rack.
On one board are the numbers CORE
spending to the cable wires on the
other the wires are numbered as on
the operators board. 1t is from here
that the switchboard connection Is
made. The switchboard is divided into
IL sections, each operator taking care
of 100 phones. AS soon as the sub
scriber at phone No. $40 takes down
the receiver, a little light, directly In
front OF the operator at the exchange
begins to glow notifying her that she
is wanted by the subscriber A drop
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the subscriber, say $40. She imme.
diately places plug in number 679
on the switchboard and answers the
call. AS soon as the number desired
is ascertained another plug is placed
in the switchboard and the bell of the
subscriber called for is sounded Di.
rectly in front of the switch board
is located the chief operators desk,
1t is provided with small incandescent
lights one for each section of tn
operating board. By clever mechan-
ical device these little lamps tell her
just when a call is received by an
operator. It continues to glow until
the call has been answered, If this
occupies too much time she can talk
to the operator through her desk
phone and learn the cause Of delay,