The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-09
DHELLo" OVER A NEW LINE.
GEORGIA. TELEPHONE COMPANY
FORMALLY OPENS TOMORROW.

Two or Three Days-LRst OF sub
orihers for Whom Connection
uas Been Made VIII Appear To-
marrow in the Morning News-In n
short Time the Number VIII Have
uoached More Than 1,O00-Electri-
cal Mechanism in the Exchange
,be Best That Could Be Secured.
New Company Formed by Savan-
nah business Men.
THE Georgia Telephone and Telegraph
Company will open its local telephone lines
COR business early tomorrow morning.
Tor the last two or three days all connec-
tlons desired have been given in quick,
business-like manner, no loss of time ex-
asnerating those using the system and ev-
ervthing moving with promptness and
snan that gave excellent promise for the
service the company will render its pa
irons.
To-day there will doubtless be many
calls for connections, and all will be an
swered, but not until tomorrow morning
will the system be Officially regarded as
omen for service The officers of the COM
many have worked hard and constantly for
now perfectly equipped exchange, and
all express themselves as thoroughly we'll
satisfied with the results.
In the book of the new company that
will be got out the last of the week will
appear the names of some 500 subscribers.
In to-morrow's Morning News will be the
list of connections that have been made.
Daily names are being added to it, and the
company expects it will be but short
time before the number will have gone far
beyond 1000. There is a capacity on the
switchboard for 1000 subscribers, and or
ders have been placed for two more sec
tons, each to have capacity for 800 lines.
This apparatus will readily respond to or
ders for connections promptly, and the Of
fcers of the company think it by no means
unlikely, so confidently do they rely upon
the efficiency of the service they will give,
that 1t will be long before there will be
1900 subscribers lines in use. Nearly all
the connections now made are in the busl-
ness section.
A visit was paid the new company's ex-
change al Whitaker street and York lane
Yesterday, and General Superintendent r.
H. Polk explained the delicate electrical
mechanism, which is of the very latest
and most effective pattern. From the
apertures in the floor through which the
eleven cables enter with their bundles of
wires to the receivers strapped to the ears
of the pretty operators on the second floor
there is every evidence of perfection in
electrical engineering and telephone work.
Chief of the attractions to an admirer of
wonderful inventions and mechanisms is
the switchboard, before which the opera
tors sit to query, NUMBER" in response
rrt.v a.
ton. Before each of them projects an
incandescent globe that is automatically
make to glow brightly with each uplift-
ing of receiver by a subscriber, there
by attracting the attention of the opera
tor. Connection is then made without
delay by a system of points inserted in
jacks and pressure on a lever.
Mr.. w. E. Mccormick, superintendent
for the Stromberg- Carlson Telephone
Manufacturing Company of Chicago, put
the switchboard in place and made all
its connections. He is proud of the SIM
plicity and effectiveness of the board, for
which, as an assistant in the designing,
he is partly responsible For several
weeks Mr.. Mccormick has been employed
in getting the switchboard in working
order.
FOR the batteries that stand on the first
floor claims are made that should COM
mend them to the warmest appreciation
sharp clicks striking the eardrum and
none of the humming that battles CONVEX
sation sometimes and almost drives nerv-
Gus persons dernented. The batteries are
in duplicate, and this fact, 1t is said, will
remove these Objectionable features that
seem to delight in creeping into tele-
phone system.
Far greater delay than was anticipated
at the inception of the work was encoun-
tered in putting I'm the new system. This
was due to the difficulty found in getting
the apparatus from the manufacturers.
None save the best was wanted, and, the
demand throughout the country being so
great, the manufacturing firms were un-
able to supply orders as quickly as was
desired. Mr. w. A. Btsbee, president of
the company, expresses his apprecia ton
of the evident good will of the people of
savannah in waiting for the operation of
the lines and of their forbearance in not
criticising or becoming provoked at the
delay. This was unavoidable. Had 1t been
prevented, the officers say, it could but
have been through the acceptance of a
poor quality of electrical appliances, and
the public would in no way have been
benefited
The Georgia Telephone and Telegraph
company was formed by local capitalists.
Inc officers are as follows:
President-Mr. w. A. Blsbee.
vice Presfdent-Capt. Henry Blum.
Ireasurer-Mr. Leopold Adler.
Secretary-Mr ]. Randolph Anderson.
General Observation-Disclosures. r. H.
Polk
Messrs. ]. H. Estill Leopold Adler, ia
COP Paulsen, w. A. Bisbee, H. p. Smart,
henry Blum and w. w. Mackall, direc-
tors.
Inc company owns all or majority of
the stock of the exchanges at Valdosta
ana Waycross, and Ii is the purpose at
dnfa m al a
nectlons from Savannah with those places,
thereby affording~. business men and
DINERS an opportunity for quick conversa-
uonal communications. Valdoeta and
Waycross are in an excellent section of
the state, progressive and Industrious, and
connection by long-distance with the
cities will be of great advantage to Sa-
Vannah.
With the opening Of the Georgia Com
panys exchange there will be two tele-
phone systems in Savannah. Many sub
scrloers will have both systems, and Il
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