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maximum force is kept on duty until )
or $50, and after that the size of the
force diminishes steadily until mid
night
The schedule of operators hours is
plotted from the load curve of the typ
zeal business day, but the records of
the peg count so farther and show the
number of calls answered by each ope-
rator during each hour of d working
day.
Practical experience has shown that
the best service is renaered and the
operators are most contented when they
have calls enough to keep them steadily
busy while they are at the switch board
and all sorts of calculations are made
to bring about this end. A peg count
is made to show the number of calls
answered by each operator in success
i've five-minute periods. but curves Of
these counts show that business varies
greatly on the same lines, the calls
coming in at the rate of one a minute
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

Between 10 a. m. and D. IN. the tele-
phone calling is made up chiefly of
business communications between bust
ness houses and social communications
between residences, and after the So
cial communications have the line
largely to themselves.
With this understanding of the prob
able days business made UP from ia
bles which are kept in the same man
ner in all the Bell companies, the man.
agement works out a schedule which
viii bring operators on duty when they
are needed and release them when they
are not needed, and which win provide
a reserve force for emergencies Until
a. m. there are but four people on
duty at the great central switchboard
a night manager, a night monitor and
two operators. Even this small force
finds the time drag when there are but
a dozen calls to answer during an hour
BY Z O'Clock, however. the calls are
coming in lively, and to meet this in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

Tn America he said. s'the husband Is
almost more chivairous and attentive and
polite after marriage than before it. To
see an American couple together. laugh
ing and joking, one would hardly believe
that they were welded.
THE point, therefore, of a recent hap
pening in a London court OF law would
pe quite lost in an American law court.
"A poor woman was tesrifyiug about
her dead husband in a London life insur-
ance suit A lawyer said 10 her:
Was your husband good TO you dur
ing his lfe2'
Z" oh. yes. indeed she answered. AS
good as could be He was more like
friend than a husband -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
How Salt Lake Uses the Telephone

taI HEN the telephone subscriber
w takes the receiver from the hook.
Whether it is during the busiest
hour of the day or in the still watches
OF the night. he expects Central to
be waiting for him, ready with a polite
Number, please" and prepared to fur
nish the desired connection instantly.
In other lines of business, when the
rush hour comes IL is possible to put of
s. me customer until the rush is over
even the telegraph companies are able
10 distribute their business through the
business day so that wires and operat-
ors may be utilized with some degree
or economy, but with the telephone
company no such postponement is pos
sfbie. AT certain hours all the people
appear TO be anxious to talk a once.
and 1t is the duty of the management
10 provide operators and wires for this
peak load, as it is called, so that as
prompt service shall be given during
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

tory OF this brave man:. indeed in all
western history Rebelling at the tame
ness of ranching and horse trading and
wagon traffickfng. longing once more for
the freedom of the Trapping trail XII
larson sent word sIHOdg his old friends
the Tree traders of the Rockies and
made up a party of eighteen oId-time
lonS-haired men. They sailed forth with
rIfle and axe and pack and jingnne tran
chaihs, IN the fashion Of the past making
once more deep into the heart of The
Rockies. They visited the Arkansas. the
Green. the Grand, the White. the Lara
meal the loved ard lovable parks of
me mountains. They came back through
the Ration mountains with abundant fur
they said II was their last trail: that
they had visited tho streams which fbev
loved in order that they might shake
hands with them and say goodbye The
expedition was made for sheer love of the
old life. which they knew had now gone
by forever.
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analysis of the figures the curves will
be found to show an outline picture of
the city's habits
Beginning at midnight, but few calls
are made until a. m, the lowest num-
Der for an hour being eleven. between f.
and O'Clock. Between s and o'clock
the number of calls increased to $50,
and then mounted by hourly periods to
1,104, ISIS and then to 1894 between 9
and 10 O'Clock. the busiest hours in the
day on any week day the peak of the
lead win be found approximately at
$50, after which the load of business
VIII drop to a low point during the
lunch hour between L and !, or be-
tween ] and 2. as the case may happen,
because sometimes one of these hours
and sometimes the other Will show the
lower number of calls. On the typical
day business dropped to 1886 calls be
tween ] and ?, and rose to 1882 between
3 and 4, the afternoon peak load being
at about $3.50. After the high mark in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
Mistaken for Marx Twain.
Why Temperance lecturers Ear
nestness Provoked OnIy Laughter.

good story was told relating to Mr.
Clemens some years ago, which illustrates
this happy and tractable disposition on
the part of the public. says the New York
Globe. lie was advertised to lecture in
Colchester. Conn, but not appearing at
the last moment Densham Hornet the
temperance lecturer. was secured The.
chairman was not very distinctly heard
when he introduced Mr.. Hornet. owing TO
the eagerness OF the audience but those
who caught the name doubtless thought
it was Mark Twain's other name"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
KeSOurCefuI Kit Carson.
Ills Remarkable Work 6S a Dispatch Bearer for the
Government
His 5rk6bIe
Government.

There was needed a messenger to the
government at Washington. VINO better
could serve at this than this iron framed
little rider, Kit CARSON says Emerson
HouSh in Outing. He started or Sept 10
1876, and had won across the Rocky
mountains when he met General Kear-
neys column and was ordered 70 return
10 California. In this return the Kear-
ney column was assailed by the Calffor-
MIA MeXicans. stern fighters themselves
who pushed kearney's forces into a des-
perate situation. The beleaguered troops
needed a messenger out to San Diego Kit
Carson and Lieutenant Beale of the navy
undertook the task The hardships of
the march wrecked the mind and body
Of Beale, who was an invalid for two
years thereafter. 1t was nothing 10 Kit
Carson. In March. 1877, he was started
once more as q dispatch bearer TO Wash
ingtcn. This time he met the Indians on
the CHA fought them( got through.
crossed New Mexico. descended the Ar
kansas river. and in the month of June
arrived at Washington, after having
made 1000 miles in three months time
The journey requires little more than
three DAYS nOws but we do not make IL
horseback
At Washington. as some sort OF reward
for his services. Carson appointed
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e9eutenant of the rifle corps OF the United
StateS army His commission. however
vas never ratified. though this he did not
learn until some months later He was
sent back TO California with dispatches
i re crossed the Missouri river. fought the
1omancheS at the Point of Rocks got
tnrough them, passed the Rockies and
nad won as far through as the Virgin
rlver before he met his next Indian fight.
lie ana flfteen companions here stood off
80 INDIANS. In time he reached Mon
terey, and later. simply to keen himself
m practice. took service against the Mex
lcans on the border for a time
mere was no man of ali those known
10 the army officers who had the re-
sources or was so well qualified as a dis
patch rider as Kit Carson. He was sent
BACK once more to Washington in the
spring Of 1873 The physical frame OF any
other man except himself had been bv
these journeyings too far racked to en-
able him 10 make this long and hazardous
Trip. The souls of most men would have
failed them long ere this Yet this hardy.
tough little man. just big enough for
steady riding. cheerfully Undertook this
third journey across continent as dis.
patch bearer.
And now comes one OF the most 70
mantle and pathetic incidents in the his
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was heard until the scene was concluded
diteT winch the artist was greeted with
oNerpowerlng applause. II the following
act Nirginius comes on the stage looking
worn ana distracted. The reaction has
set in. he is frenzied over the loss of his
daughter and he walks up and down.
crying OUT, Virginia, Virginia. Where is
my childZ''
An old miner who occupied front row
IN She orchestra and whs had been terri
biN wrought up by the murder scene.
could stand this no longer and rising in
ms place, shouted out in loud tones
ifeighted with intense indignat ton.
why, you old villain. you killed her in
the market house in the last act You
Know IT well enough You are a hypo-
critic, as We'll as q villain"
The laughter and applause that greeted
this unexpected turn in the performance
made II necessary TO ring down the cur
tain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
Likely 20 GET Mixed.
CKansas civ LournalN

Anna Katherine Green. the well known
novelist, discussed the servant question
at a recent dinner party in New York
Servants, class. she said, are
excellent. have no sympathy with those
women who say il is impossible TO get
good servants. 1 admit. though, that now
and then an impossible servant turns up.
An impossible servant, a cook turned
up at the house of a friend Of mine last
week This cook was from New Hamp-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

shire. a state noted I believe for the
naughty pride of its inhabitants. be they
rich or poor. She came to my friend
with a high recommendation from an
employment agency, but as soon as she
entered the house she began to ask the
most impertinent questions.
Ny friend answered her questions with
civility, but in the end they reached a
point where -civility would no longer serve
I see You have a daughter. What is
her name2' said the new cook.
= Margaret my friend answered.
Margaret said the cook Dear me,
/ guess you'll have TO call her something
else while I'm here. for my names Mar
c3ret too
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
A Crowded Car Episode.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.)


My. but the cars are crowded."
Il should say So.
why, last evening my car was so
damned that there wasn't foot room for
all the passengers Somebody stood on
my left foot for ten minutes and / got
so tired of II l turned TO the man next
TO mo and said: Would you just as soon
stand on my right foot instead of my
left for changer He looked down and
replied: j beg your pardon, but you've
made a mistake. I'm standing on this
stout gentleman'S foot. and besides your
right foot is occupied by the lady with the
four parcels -
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crease of business the force is aug
mented by seven operators at O'clock,
eight operators at 1880, five at s, seven
at $50 and one at $3.50, so that by the
middle of the forenoon the maximum
operating force is on duty. Beside the
tWenty-elght exchange operators at
that hour there are four monitors and
supervisors, the chief operator and the
assistant chief, three relief operators. a
teacher and perhaps eight operators
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
The Villain Rebuked.
NEIarner's Weel,Ir !

~
A number or professional men gathered
at the Art club in Philadelphia a few
days ago were exchanging "reminiscences
or Edwin Forrest the great tragedian.
One of them told the story of Forrest s
experience in the west. which was not
only of interest in itself, but also a trib-
ute to the art of the actor
The play was '.Virginius" and Forrest
was at his best. In the scene where he
Stays his daughter the audience was al
most stricken with awe, and not a sound
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

the busy hour as at any other time dur
ing the twenty-four.
Generally speaking. the busy hour
may be anticipated and provided for in
advance. but occasionally some unex-
pected incident, like the Iroquois fire in
Chicago, will bring everybody to the
telephone and the management must
send hurry calls for extra operators and
strain every nerve to bear up under the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
Two Sundays.

the middle of the afternoon the bust
ness decreases steadily during the
evening until u o'clock, when the aver
age level of the night is reached.
1t will surprise Salt Lake business
men who begin their days work in ear
nest at 10 O'Clock to find that the bust
est telephone hour is already passed.
until they consider the enormous
amount Of marketing that Is done over
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
Wavside Observations.

Some books that are bound in gold have
only drosS inside.
Next thing Tom Lawson knows he villa
have a cigar named for him
An uD-tO-date leather goods Inanufac-
turer has brought out a new style pocket
book which he calls the Cassie Chadwick.
OF course IL is extra large.
Imperial Caesar dead and turned to
clay" may be made into a jug to hold
the stuff Of which eggnog is made
There is a circus owner who is so strict
as TO the use Of ardent spirits that he
refuses to employ a tight rope walker
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

and supervisors on the toll board
ID handle the long distance Business. An
auHlllary force comes on at noon, and
each girl gets her lunch hour besides
a hfteen-minUte rest interval morning
and evening, so that her seven and a
half hours at the switchboard is divid-
Ell into four periods of less than two
hours each. This means that the one
rators at the busiest positions are
changed many times a day. but all
these changes occur at the stroke of a
bell and so quickly that there is no ap-
parent interruption of the service A
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

tween IL and Il and and L. when PEG
Die are at church The highest peak
GENES between and 2. with lesser
peaks between 10 and IL, and 6 and Z
and O'Clock. But Sunday business is
not consistent with itself and varies
greatly from week to week for no an
parent reason. Christmas Sunday was
exceptionally busy because of the an
propriate greetings that were being
passed back and forth over the wires
but when the new year opens on Sun
day that becomes easily the busiest
Sunday of the year
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and then suddenly jumping to thirty or
more in five-minute period. These ir-
Irregularities increase with the increase
o. subscribers connected with an ex-
change, ard require a frequent read
justment Of the switchboard and re-
distribution of the work among the one
rators.
In Salt Lake. Sunday telephone bust
ness is very erratic. The curves show
that there are always low points be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

Subbubs-I nearly broke my back show
cling the snow off my place yesterday.
Backlotz-Wen. it's a good thing sum
mer isn't here. too.
Subbu bs-What are you talking about?
Backlotz-Why. if we had winter and
summer together would have 10 shovel
snow and cut the grass, too.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

the telephone Immediately after break
Iast- Between and 10 in the forenoon
thousands of families all over the city.
many OF them two or three miles from
the business section. are ordering their
provisions for the day and such other
supplies as they happen to need The
busiest hour therefore is caused by the
rush TO talk with the butcher, the gro
cerymen and retail dealers of all kinds.
VINO after receiving the telephone or
GERS, may then start their wagons early
IN the day 10 deliver the goods which
nave been purchased over the wire.
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load. But the records OF calls which
are taken from day TO day, and from
month TO month, over a period of years.
show that at certain hours and on GER
tain occasions a rush may be expected
The Bell company has been keeping
such a record, peg counts, as they are
called, for years, and from them are
plotted curves which graphically rep
resent the days business. Take. for
an example, typical week day in Salt
lake, when the peg count showed that
over $1,000 originating calls were made
during the twenty-four hours. and bv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
Just Like a Friend.

(San Antonio Ex3ress.)
John Morley, at a dinner in New York
praised the devotion of the American hus-
hand.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22

And now comes one OF the most ro-
mantle and pathetic incidents in the his
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At Washington. as some sort Of reward
for his services Carson was appointed
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
BRIDGE SCANDALS STILL
ORDER OF THE DAY
Latest Is Being Enacted in a Fash
ionable London Club
House.

LONDON. Dec. 30.-Bridge scandals
are still the order of the day The
latest is the topic of conversation at a
well-known club in the lower part of
Regent street. One of the members has
long been suspected OF cheating, and a
committee of eight members has
been formed TO watch him nightly He
is quite unsuspecting, but he is never
allowed to sit down 10 play a rubber
without one of the eight is among The
players. Each member of the commit
tee is taking voluminous notes, and on
the first of January they are to meet
and compare results. If the experiences
or the eight are similar the matter viii
be brought before the club officials. At
Almack's, which is a cock and hen"
club. the women members have taken
TO writing anonymous letters to each
other when they are not tearing each
others regulations 10 shreds in public
One woman boxed another's ears in full
View of large audience the other da.,
II this state of things continues il IS
probable that the commissioner of no.
lice will step i'm.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
CUBAN CONGRESS AIDS
KEY WEST STRIKERS
Action of Body in Behalf of Cigar
makers Unprecedented in
History.

HAVANA, Dec. 3O.-The most nota-
BILE event of the week has been the
passing of a bill by the Cuban con-
gress authorizing a credit of $4,000
te help the Cuban cigarmakers Of Key
West, Fla, who have been on strike
for some time. The action of the
congress is unprecedented in history
and has created the greatest sensation
here.
Some of the most radical papers
call it "a triumph of socialism, but
the great majority of the press and
the people only consider it a patriotic
action.
1t is a wefi-known fact that during
Cuba's struggle for freedom it was the
Key West and Tampa cisarmakers that
sacrificed themselves more for the
Cuban cause. contributing large sums
of money, the fruit of their labor. 10
supply the army CT liberation with
ammunition and arms. 1t was simply
just. therefore, that now that those
Cuban cigaFmakeFs are suffering from
hunger and utter destitution, the
Cuban republic, which they helped to
constitute. should do something for
them.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
PRINCESS WILL DIET
ON ANTI-FAT MEDICINE
King Alphonso's Future Mother n-Law
Intends to Reduce Her Figure
at Once.

LONDON. Dec. 3O.-Now that it Is GER
tain that Princess Ena OF Battenberg
is to become the bride of King Alfonso
OF Spain. Notwithstanding the religious
differences. which will be overcome in
the usual diplomatic manner. her
mother. Princess Henry of Battenberg.
has become a conspicuous figure at all
social functions. Princess Beatrice, as
she is always called, was never a beau
~. and she is extremely corpulent, but
she has no vanity. and is absolutely in
different TO her looks or dress. She al
ways has been the butt for the chair
Of her brothers and sisters, including
the King. The other day the King was
shown a portrait of Miss Connie Ediss,
the very fat and popular Cockney come
dienne of the Gaiety Theater. why,
that's the image of Beatrice." said the
King. Needless 10 say the remark was
conveyed to Princess Beatrice by a
thoughtful lady-in- waiting and now the
Princess is telling all her intimate
friends that she intends to reduce her
figure at once and at all costs. Princess
Ena Will, il is feared. grow as stout
as her mother. She is a big. fair, hand
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
STARVED CAT LIVES
MONTHS IN ICE BOX
Kitty Should Have Died Three Times.
But Came Out of Expe-
rience Mewing.

LONDON. Dec. 3O.-The fact that a
cat can live for thirty-two days with
out food and in a temperature consid-
erably below freezing point has been es-
tablished by an experience to which the
ships cat of the mail steamer Ortona
has unwittingly been subjected
Shortly after the Ortona left Australia
homeward bound, the cat could nowhere
be found. and IT was surrnised that
pussy had been left behind. When the
vessel was thirty-two days out from
sydney. however. one of the engineers
heard a faint mewing in the refrfger
ating chamber. The chamber had not
been opened since the steamer set ont
on her voyage but was promptly eS
plored, and the unfortunate eat was
found lying on a box Of butter In a very
emaciated condition
one of its ears and portion of its
nose had been bitten off by the cold but
strangely enough, Nature had attempted
its great work of accommodation and
its fur had grown to a great length
during its Imprisonment. Before the
Ortona reached its destination the cat
had quite recovered from its chilly ex-
perience.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
LONDON VILE MISS
MRS.POTTER PALMER
Her Dazzling Entertain-
ments We're Popular.
POLITICS ABSORBING TOPIC
Royal Set" Too Busy With Affairs Of
State to Indulge in Social
Functions.
POLITICS ABSORBING TOPIC

LONDON, Dec. 30.-Society will miss
Mrs Potter Palmer and her dazzling en-
tertainments this winter Mrs Palmer,
before she left for Chicago, told a few
OF her new. London friends that she in
tended 10 return and entertain next sea-
So II is doubtful, however. whether
Mrs. Palmer viii renew her efforts to
get into the royal set" Mrs Palmer
undoubtedly entertained a great deal
more than she was entertained, and
she was wise to leave for Chicago az
a time when politics occupy the whois
attention of London society. In fact,
from now on till the end of January
London hOstesses will make no efforts
TO do any entertaining. At the small
restaurant dinners nothing is talked Of
but the new ministry and the chances
of various friends when the general
election comes on. The result Of the
resignation has been a
very serious slump in the siressmaking
line Not a single big firm in London
IS employing its full staff of girls
Mrs. George Cornwallis-West by ths
way. is terribly disappointed that her
son, Winston Churchill. is not included
in the new Cabinet and that brilliant
young man Is also so disturbed over
this apparent slight that Liberals ara
beginning te feel that he may retaiiats
cy making himself .uncOmfortable'' 10
The party which he recently joined