Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-22

The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company Is completing a great new
switchboard to be put into use By next
Monday night which Is q triumph
in applied science. This board with at
tendant improvements and changes
consequent upon IT'S installation, viii
have cost the company nearly $4,000
bu, the service s thereby so much inn
proved and extended that 1t win be
money well invested. The company
has been planning FOR this switchboard
for the last two years and the order
was finally placed last December with
the Western Electric company Of Chi
cago Hut delivery was delayed until
Aug 10 last on account of the incom-
pleted addition % the central station
building on state street The great
and complicated mechanism, represent
Ing the latest mplishment In tele-
phOnlc science IL now all up the en-
larged operating room was completed
several weeks ago, and eight men from
the Chicago factory have been pushing
things night and day, 10 hurry the
WORK through 10 successful end.
President Wallace and General Man
pgcr Murray are now seeing with de-
served satisfaction the achievement Of
their hopes and their plans, and the
Increase Of efficiency and extent OF
telephone service II IL intlmated, will
be increased 80 per cent when every
thing Is In working order.
This is q Central Energy switch
board, so called from embracing
within It's attendant plant all OF
the electrical energy up TO the pres
ent time scattered through the system
IN the different subscribers phones.
This means the reduction Of phones 90
a single box containing the transmit
ter, receiver and bells, There win be
no batteries, and no bell knob 10 turn,
the call being made by removing the
receiver from its hook the bells being
used as Mt present. to call subscribers.
This Of course means n removal Of all
the phones In town. and a substitution
for them Of the new device just re-
ferred TO.
CHANGE ON MONDAY.
The company will have all Sunday to
develop anything not working smooth
ly In the new outfit and there Is a
possibility Of a partial delay through
the nonnrrival Of certain fixtures and
connections But General Manager
Murray hopes to have everything In
readiness to make the cut over next
Monday, after the rush Of the days
business Is over, and then the old
switchboard, the power plant and mis-
cellaneOus apparatus pertaining to the
same will be replaced entirely.
WHAT IT CAN DO.
The following facts In detail In con-
nection with the change will BE- OF
interest. The distributing or inter-
mediate frame In the basement Is to
be retained, as Il Includes all the inn
proYements necessary, aud Il Is In this
apparatus that the underground cables
terminate From this frame the new
cables run 20 connect with various
parts Of the big switch board
on the top floor supplanting the
old style Of cable connections
which win be cut Off later The fran,
has capacity for $500 lines. The
Cd battery plant Of six cells and one
small changing machine, have been re.
placed by II new storage batteries OF
ire latest and most improved make
OF % volts capacity altogether, and on
the performance Of these the whole
system depends. The current Is taken
nom Western electric 27-yolt gener-
itor driven by motors operated by a
current from the Utah Light & Power
companys wires. In connection with
'hls generator is a power plant switch
hoard of Maine blue slate, and the me-
tallic devices for distributing the cur
rent are very complete In connec-
lion with this plant are three mo
tor generators used TO furnish the cur
ront used in ringing the bells OF the
rystem and one OF them runs from
The storage battery for use In emer-
gpncy should the main generating
p qnt fail. Then also IN this cellar APP
paratus Is the repeating rack where
the current from the storage batteries
n distributed TO the different operating
positions on the switchboard upstairs.
WHERE THE GIRLS WORK.
The operating apparatus on the third
floor where the girls work Is an i'm
roslug sight. but very confusing 10 tho
Individual To accommodate the work.