Evening journal., 1905-06-22
NINETEEN DEAD IN THE
WRECK AT MENTOR, O..
NEW SYSTEM
IN OPERATION
Delmarvia Telephone Com
pany Installs 1900 Auto
matte Phones
METHOD COMPLEX YET SIMPLE

At o'clock last night, and as in the
"twinkling OF an eye" the Delmarvia
Telephone Company's old system OF
.ring-the-bell and get-your-number
was done away with and its new auto
matte system went into effect. II took
just forty-flve seconds to cut out the
old and cut in the new.
TO describe the automatic system
adopted by the Delmarvia people ad-
equately would require the ability OF
an expert electrician but from ac-
counts received Of its workings In
other cities where It has been INSTALL
ed the automatic seems to give general
satisfaction.
In installing the new method entire
ly new material has been used. The
phones are new, the wiring is new and
the machines are new. From the un-
derground system the wires enter the
basement OF the Delmarvia building
encased in lead piping and In bunches
OF four hundred and two hundred
wires each. A short distance after en-
tering the cellar the wires are sub-di-
lvided. those coming in In four hundreds
being transferred to tubing capable Of
encasing one hundred wires each and
those coming IN in two hundreds being
lsimilarly divided.
Leaving the basement the wires con-
meet With the distributing board on the
first floor. which is equipped with light
ming protectors to prevent burning
out From this point they proceed to
the switch board on the second fioor
leach phone having It's separate reject
lors. From thence the messages are
transmitted to their proper destination
iThe selectors are divided into thous.
lands hundreds, tens and units. When
Ia phone Is placed IN operation from
iany point a key travels aross the Sc
Hector dropping into the thousand slot
Ia similar key traverses drops into tbs
hundred slot and so ON until the re-
lquired connection is made. BY thii
Isystem a person can talk as long ai
desired without fear OF interruption.
MANY PHONES IN OPERATION.
Beginning at o'clock last nigh
labouti 1900 automatic phones wer'
placed in operation. Although no sub.
urban lines have yet been cut in mol
lhave outside connections been yet es'
ltabllshed. In order TO get connections
with out OF town parties II is necessar,
to cait the original number and ther
TASK for sub number 20-and-20, whei
connections will be given I'm the ordin'
larry manner. There Is also an operator
known as Number g." to whom al
trouble on the wires should be report
led For information mo. s" should
be called In case any one falls TO &c
la response to a number Il is an cas-,
lmatter TO determine whether his in
ldividual linz is out OF order. To dl
this one should call his own numbe
lover the line and IL there Is no troubl
ltae busy buzzz" viii az once respond
, Thereby indicating that the line is II
working order and that no one /
, labout at the other end.
The installation Of the automatic ha
thrown out of employment thirty-si'
employees, in fact nearly every opera
tor In the system. There are no re
ltained two toll operators during the da,
= and one at night. There is also da
= sub-board operator and an operate
] an information clerk.
5 A peculiar feature regarding the in
= stallatlon OF the new system is tn
4 fact that in ordering phones from tn
, factory the company ordered seventy
i
twenty-five per cent. of wall phones
, as teh former are believed to be NOR
! convenient. When the work Of in
stalllng the phones began however
was found that the styles desired wer
lust the reverse Of those ordered.
For some time last evening prior
the changing of the system the operat
r ors were subjected to much chaf froi
= various sources. A phone call woul
sound and when the young woman or
orator would say What numbe
lplease?" she would be greeted wit
!, such responses as Back. Back, Bac
I Ito Baltimore;" Good Bye, Little Cir
z, Good Bye" Back to the woods
r. "Flee to the Hook Shop" go Rest o
+ Mothers Knee and Good Bye. Sweet
s heart" Considering the circumstance
5 the operators took the torment remark
ably well.