The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-05-04
new TELEPHONE SYSTEM
WILL BE COMPLETED
BY JULY NEXT.

Part of the new addition to the
National bank building, on York street,
now in course of erection, will be oc-
cupied by the local central telephone
exchange of the Wisconsin Telephone
company The new structure will be
completed between May ID and the
latter part of that month. The part of
the building to be occupied by the cen
trail telephone exchange will consist of
(a) An operating room, 23 36 feet,
equipped, at the beginning, with seven
G) 100wire capacity switchboards of
the electric lamp system and also with
one % 100-wire board equipped for
the reception of farmer lines. This equip
ment is becoming very popular in the
rural districts at the present time and,
therefore, the Wisconsin Telephone
company purposes to offer every en-
couragement to the demands of the
telephone-using public for good, efficient
service: tb) An apparatus room, %
"a feet, equipped with lOOO-wire local
distributing frame; | Interstate or toll
line distributing frame of 25-wire
capacity an electric storage battery;
and electric current for ringing sub
scribers (c) A reception room, II Is
feet, in which three of the latest style
booths will be placed to meet the needs
OF the public.
The installation of the new apparatus
will take ut least 60 days after the com
pletion of the building, or up to the
middle or latter part of July next.
The present method of calling Central
by Il ring will be done away with and
it will only be necessary to remove the
receiver from the hook for this will
cause a small electric blub, showing the
subscribers number, to be lighted at
Central thus apprising the operator of
a call on that particular line. The
hanging up of the receiver extinguishes
the light at Central, thus advising the
operator of the completion of the con
versation and rendering it unnecessary
for the latter to listen in for the pur
pose of ascertaining when to sever the
connection.
The present system of having in
dividual batteries at each station will
be superseded by one large battery at
Central, which will be fed to the sub
wire system to be installed at each and
every station.
The ringing on party lines, which has
heretofore proven annoying in that
system, will he changed to what is
known us the selective ringing system.
that is, subscriber on party line will
hear none but his own call and that call
will be one ring instead of several rings,
rs heretofore.
The new system is being constructed
with a view to accommodating with
slight additions in switchboard capacity,
fifteen 90 per cent. of the entire popu
lation; and Manager DeLano expects
that Manitowoc will have from 1900 to
1900 subscribers within year or IS
months after the completion of the new
system.
In the old exchange, at the present
time, some of the boards carry unequal
burdens in the number of calls an
operator is required 70 answer. The in
equality in this matter is especially
pronounced in the case of board one Cd,
which was the first board installed and
which, therefore, of necessity carries the
largest users of the system. There are
on this board, at the present time, 16S
of the busiest wires A thorough equali-
zation will be made under the change,
and this, with the increased rapidity of
the new over the old system, will enable
an operator to give decidedly improved
service.