The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-02
NEW TELEPHONE
SERVICE TODAY
Subscribers Will Not Ring the
Bell Hereafter.
.UST TAKE THE RECEIVER OFF
THEN THE GIRL AT CENTRAL
WILL DO THE REST.

w HEN you go to the telephone this
w morning to can up the milk man
or to enter a protest for not re-
cefVing your morning paper, it will be
necessary only to lift the receiver off its
hook and wait for the Number; Girl
10 answer If you have to wait a sec
oho or two, don't get angry. For the
new switchboard has been installed in
the ROCKY Mountain Office and all the
maids are not yet accustomed to it.
yesterday was about the liveliest day
IN the history of that State street
building and Manager sMurrav was
pleased to announce last night that his
corps of wOrkmen had so far progressed
tnat the new system would be in effect
this morning. Remember, Won don't
nave to ring your bell,
This new switchboard. which saves
SO much time and trouble, will have
cost about $4,000 at the end of the next
thirty days, for it will necessitate the
installation of new telephones. without
cranks, all over the system. Today the
company viii put force of sixty men
at work making these changes, but the
work Involves so much expense of time
that Manager Murray hardly expects
to have the whole thing completed be-
fore the end of this month.
This central energy switchboard rep
resents all that is new and I'D to date
In telephone science. It is so named
because 1t takes in the reduction of
telephones to a single box containing
receiver, transmitter and bells. the lat
ter being, not for the subscribers use,
but to call the subscriber from the CEN
trail station.
Little Light Used.
The most notable feature of the new
board, from the layman's standpoint. is
absence of r1la "a
diminutive electric lights are substi-
tuted. At every call one of these lights
comes on and central must be continu-
ally on the lookout for them. This does
away with any noise at the switch
board and. by the way, there is no
noise in the subscribers ear. as this
board does away with the click when
central cuts in to answer a call.
There are four cOlOrs in these electric
lamps, indicating to the operator at
once whether it is unlimited service,
party register, individual limited SER
vice or public station call. Then there
are little lamps that tell whether or not
the party calling a number got a re-
Spouse and when both of these go out,
at the hanging up of the receiver
central knows that the conversation is
over. This saves the subscriber the
trouble OF ringing off. TIE board will
accommodate twenty-eight Operators
cords TO take care of, seventy lines on
party Zine and ninety on Individual
lines.
For two weeks the girls have been
studying the new switchboard, several
being put on at a time while in another
part of the building an employee rep
resents the subscribers and calls for
numbers and combinations trying in
every way to confuse central. BY this
time a large majority of the operators
are used to it and it is expected that
very little trouble will be experienced
getting into running order. The old
switchboard, an extensive affair in
itself, viii be divided into sections and
sent to various country exchanges for
use.
The north section of the Telephone
building is rapidly nearing completion
and will be Of great advantage to the
company 1t has cost $40. 000 but GER
tainly gives that worth in additional
space.