Arizona republican., 1903-09-27

patrons get next to the new rules
 the sooner they will have first class
 service, for only by strict compliance with the rules can central make the proper connections.
 First, when desiring to use the phone take down the receiver and put it to | the eer. That flashes a light in front | of the operator at the central office and instantly she is ready to receive the number. There should be no bell ringing for that system is now done away with. The bell will ring from
 the central office when the subscriber is called for by another. Therefore the cranks on the bells are useless and subscribers should not meddle with them. The second thing to do is to give the number desired, and which should have been previously determined by refer ence to the telephone directory. Don't give the same old number you have been using for a year, but get the book and find out just what you want 1 Then give it and give it in full. If the prefix main" or red or "black'' CT anything else is found before the | number. give it in full. For instance The Republicans number was formerly 1 AT and now it is Main A."
 These two things are all that is nec- | cssary for the subscriber to know and i the system is more simple thar before | but it must be used right. The Phoe ! nix exchange now has about 700 sub | scribcrs That is more numbers than | an operator could keep in her head De- | fore with years of experience and with | everybody's number changed to somc | thing new, when a subscriber calls for i John Doe" he simply won't get bi,n. | for the operator won't know his num- l Der and will have no time to look it up ] The operator therefore can no longer | be depended upon as a free directory for everybody's use.
 There will. however, be more or less | trouble. While everything has been | done to avoid entanglements there may | be some crossed wires or other irregu- | larities that cannot be discovered till l the lines are tested by actual use But | it is believed that if those who use the phones will abide by directions given 1 above there will be little trouble after ! the early hours of today. There may be some trouble on the lines for 1 week or ten days, but it will be recti- | fled at once and the public should be patient. But aside from this there | can be no trouble except that naturally ! consequent upon both operators and | patrons learning a new system.
 The change was made about 10 o'clock last night and the system was out of business for about six seconds | The connections were made between each subscriber and both the old and the new office by a Y, as it were As fast as the connections were made | with the new office piece of mica was stuck in the mechanism breaking the circuit. In the old office long string ran behind each perpendicular row of fuses. In the cellar of the new office where most of the mechanism is placed six men stood before the racks where the connection is made. At given signal the operator in the old office pulled the string behind the fuses which flew to the floor and the old office was out of business. In the new office the six men at the same signal began pulling out the mica strips. con- i pleting the circuit and putting the new office in business in a jiffy.
 The new plant has been installed un- der the direction of L. L. Brose. super intendent of construction of the south- crn division of the Sunset company The underg- ound work has been going on for about three months and the inside work for the new office since about July 1st. A. S. Lindstrom has had charge of it and what he has ac- complished is pleasing for anybody to see, but can be fully appreciated only hy an electrician. He has had a force of about dozen men helping him. The outside work employing from fif- teen to twenty men has been under the direction of F. Felton and R. w. Gray. The new quarters are models of neatness and convenience and Man ager Page now has an exchange he may we'll be proud of. Though the present subscribers number only about 700 the exchange is prepared for ex- pansion and the rack work and capac- ity for it now is 5000 phones that can be operated by ten "central' girls.