Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
THE HOME TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH CO.

There is nothing more characteristic of
Los Angeles than the organization of the
which commenced business April 81, two
years ago, with less than 500 telephones
connected, and which now has nearly
$1,000 working telephones within the lin
its of our city. The company was incor-
poraterd in the year of its establishment
with the following board of directors: Col
Vice presdea afo E. grTaGa a. seoreta s Gtas
Herman w. Hellman, treasurer; F. r.
Graves, Thomas w. Phillips, w. A. Pat
terson, and John Van Lew, general man
named gentlem n has been of great en-
terprise and excellent ability needs no
growth of the company's business in this
city and its long distance connections
have made, besides its 10000 subscribers,
which are located IN IN eight modern ex
the city 1t has 12S long distance toll sta
tions and exchanges reaching to all points
in Southern California.
The general office of the company is To-
Gated at 246 South Hill street, in a mod
ern five-story fire-proof building. The sew
eral exchanges mentioned comprise East
Los Angeles, a two-story brick building
equipped for 5000 telephones; Boyle eX-
change, occupying one-story brick build
ing and having capacity for 5000 tele--
phones; Highland Park exchange, located
in a one-story brick building with ca
pacity for 1000 telephones; Grand avenue
office. located near the corner of Grand
avenue anu w dSIlLSlO 6lIG6t, III d IWO-
story brick building, having an equipment
for 1000 telephones and has over 1000 now
in operation; the Vernon Avenue ex-
change, in one-story, building, with,
capacity for 2000 telephones. In Holly
wood the company's sub-eXchange build
ing is a two-story brick, and it now has
telephones in operation and equipment for
400. At the present time the company
is building a magnificent office in the
Westlake park district, which will be
In the above-named Offices. with the ex-
ception of the main office, the apparatus
is automatic. The company was fortunate
enough, after a great deal of trouble and
expense, in securing this territory for the
exclusive use of the automatic, which Is
the coming telephone. In making the
decision the company was guided by some
of the following points: The rapidity with
which connections can be made. the abb
solute secrecy when communication is es-
tablished, clearneSS of transmission. BY
the new method one subscriber is enabled
to get another without calling up central.
The company now has some 5000 auto
MATES in service.
It is evident that the people of Los
Angeles appreciate the excellent service
and the courteous treatment which the
Home Telephone & Telegraph company en-
pany at the present time has nearly 1900
untitled orders on hand, and is working
night and day on new extensions, and
their success demonstrates that the es-
great benefit to the city, as there are
now nearly three times as many tele-
phones at no greater cost, with service
almost perfect and entirely, satisfactory,
vet with rates considerably less; and
probably in no place in the world outside of
Los Angeles could so large a company be
organized and equipped with so many
subscribers and such excellent apparatus
the Home Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany.