Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-29
COOD-BY TO
THE HELLO GIRL.

uHelO CentralV was one VI wv "'''N
,eenlh oenturys pet phrases with its
answering cry, in dulcet or sharp tones
Sn, some feminine throat far away
,'what number. please2" But Hello
,orrol!o now that the twentieth CEN
,ry is here, promises soon to be
nbrase merely historic.
science has made a stride forward
THE ohello girl" presiding genius OF the
,.lephone ever since It's installation
,nnet seek fresh employment before
,ong For there has arrived and Is now
4, uractical, successful operation, a
n,rlless centralless telephone system,
yl,b which, with few twists OF
oprlous dial any one can get the num-
hor he wants, directly, in a few Sec
onds.
No delay, no maddenlng reply
urbeyre busy, III let you know"
,,,ts in the recesses Of this new nstru-
,,o, No third person sits In the tan.
.niglne somewhere, ready TO listen IN
Il she pleases, to cut off the hurried
nan or the Hurried woman at Will, TO
upgle with wires, put In and pun out
nues, and when the subscriber IL drlV-
on "a the verge OF desperation not IN
frequently TO talk back.
on the contrary, he who calls up
now. II he be- on the line Of the new tel
ephone, has at once a private wire In
his hand.
IIe slips finger tip into one of the
ton little holes along the curYing SIDES
Of this metal dial on the telephone pox
dhe holes are numbered 0 TO w. having
inst taken the receiver on us nook ne
Jerks the dial around Sharply unln ~
catches Swung on a pivot the dial
moves easily and quickly. IL moves
back 10 it's place automatically,
IF 97li is the number to be called, the
man Inserts his finger In the No. hole
md makes the first movement For
Noe. Z and he twists the dial In the
same way a..
As the disk finally comes back to us
startIne point ne presses button Just
below. At the other end the bell Is al
rnady ringing. The connection has been
made the person called in four TO i've
seconds,
had the other end Of the wire been
,busy." the man would have heard, al.
Ter he had gone through these rapiu
motions faint buHzing sound. AUTO
matically, again does this telephone
nnnounce the fact that any other wire
IL engaged. Otherwise, II the llnger Is
nnt mo the right holes, the proper
humber Is secured infalllby. The deli
cate complicated perfect mechanism
hehinl IL all never falls. Operated on
mathematical principals, 1t IL surer
even than human hands.
Mr bare room, filled with rows OF
high keyboards of gistenlng metal N
Inc substitute for central" A strange
central" this, indeed II Is nothing
bpt a machine room, with a single cleo
triclan listening to the constant clicks
These begin at one row Of boards they
are echoed on to q second thence 10
third
There is no sign of petticoat or any
sort Of a telephone operator me man
IN charge has simply the task OF Keep
ing this machinery in order saturday
night he, with the clerks in the front
Office and the manager locks up the
exchange, not TO return until Monday
morning And through seven nights IN
the week and all day Sunday the eN-
change clicks away, the service goes
on without hitch, with no human hahus
10 aid It.
The hanks Of Instruments in the room
click away, subscribers call each other
as they please the "wipers' move up
and down the Solicitors"
The telephone girl Is truly passing
she is no more a modern necessity.
Fail River, Mass, has the most COM
pIete, largest ana most practically oper-
ated of all the girlless telephone sys-
tens of America, though II Is closely
pressed by those of New Bedford near
by, and Augusta Ga The latter cities
have each more than 800 subscribers on
these automatic wires.
Fall River has seven hundred, how
ever and appreciation Of this service
In this New England mill town IL rapid
ly growing Yet these three cities are
but few Of those that operate tele-
phones OF the new order with no girl
az central"
Geneva, NJ Y; Albuquerque, n. NJ
Albert Lea, Mimi, Auburn. ~ Y. Mad"
ison Wis; Princeton, N, j.; lthica, n.
Y. and even the far distant wilds of
Skaguay, Alaska, all have automatic
telephones.
But the going Of the telephone girl
Is on no such small scale as this short
list would indicate, The German gov
eminent has experimental, and, Success
fully, with the new invention. II has
had trial set Of keyboards for 400 sub
scribers working In Berlin for year
and half now, and will soon install
the system on a much larger scale. The
Stronger patents, operating these in
struments, are to be taken up In France.
In Havana, Cuba, the girlless tele-
nhopr ig IN ha fba az fha (fttha N
capital Twenty-Five hundred instru-
ments have been ordered to begin with,
and ten thousand altogether are to be
put in place as soon as possible
a curious circumstance has led TO the
choosing Of this mo central" phone for
Havana, so the story goes. II Is said
mat the difficulty of getting central"
girls who could speak all the languages
required would be too great At all
events no telephone girls are to be
there.
But II Is in Chicago that the hello
girl viii find her first important Wat
.rloo Already the cables are being
laid, Here win be established the first
centralless telephone system of the first
rank. II viii take probably two years
TO get the wires In place and the lntri-
cate mechanism adjusted, but when It
u complete Chicago will start off with
ltteen thousand autophones, with an
ultimate capacity under the present
pans--and these may be enlarged-of
nIty thousand Of these telephones
extraordinarily interesting are the
"details OF this mechanism that seem TO
come more nearly to human intelligence
tnan any other machinery and yet they
are so Intricate and complicated that
lney are almost beyond the comprehen-
SION OF all besides professional engin-
GERS and scientists.
Each man HIS own telephone opera
,or Is simple enough but the method
py which, In the limits OF a single room,
one llne picks ur another without hu-
n r aud; In very small fraction of a
minute holds the two together as long
az desired. and then, upon the simple
hanging up of the receiver. dlsconnects
eaem, Is nothing short Of the perfection
OF modern science.
n,ne photographs take= OF the Fall
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