The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1905-11-17
PADUCAH Home
TELEPHONE Co.
Which Absorbed Peoples In
dependent
To IMPROVE LOCAL SYSTEM
And Install Metallic SerylCe-.Enllre
Reconstruction, New Exchange
and Drop Board.
TO IMPROVE LOCAL SYSTEM
APlDUClH.R H.RARIOs.HLSDERSOs LINE

Monday morning the Paducah Home
Telephone Company which recently
absorbed the Independent Peoples
Telephone Company began the recon
strucuon Of the local system, under the
dircctio, and management of Chas.
Chandler. of Paduc,h Mr.. Chandler
is now working with : crew u about
thirty men digging new holcs and set
ting new poles. New poles will be- set
all over the city and new arms and
wires will be- used entirely. A car load
or two of material has already arrived
and the work of rcconstructIon wiil be-
pushed rapidly to completion but ai
the least II will take .iN weeks or more
to complete the WORK of reconstruction
which will ncccssitatc AN outlay
Of about $500 fur labor here
Several large cables ate "a be- pot ln
which will carry from ioo To joo wires.
Tho new company local exchange
Office. AZ announced In these columns
several weeks ago. will be- in the
James Office building on Bark street
An cables will. oi coune, start a. THE
poinL ono that carries a great num-
bcr oi wires viii pass up Bank street
10 Main street and out to Salem and
Ecllcyillc street Here u will be-
divided into three smaller cahlcs. one
will extend down Salem street to Coon
road. one down Bcllcyillc street across
the railroad 10 kcyil street and the
other will continue on Main street u
~ intersection with Poplar street and
large cable will leave the central
Office aud pass up Bank street 10 Main
and pass down Main to Gum street. In
the same manner a third cable vii
pass down Main street 10 Depot street
and then will pass down Depot 10 The
Intersection Of Depot and College. Still
another cable vill pass down Banl
stree, to College and up College I,
Bcllcullc.
The Padusah Home Company will u
all probability cxpcnd something be
tween $500 and S2Oo00 In improving
thc local system. The system thcl
install will be- metallic one through
out. while heretofore We have had onll
the ordinary ground systcm' The drOl
board alone will cost about Sl50o
II is needless Tor us 90 say that III
citizens of new and greater Marion VII
appreciate the advantages such a tclc
phone system will give, and that
will be- drst-class In cyc.y respect, "
do not doubt. Already the raduca
Home Company is constructing a nc'
line from Paducah to Marion and whic
will b. extended 10 Henderson and Pos
dbly further via Clay. Schrcc, cis
The company b also rcconstructing N
Clay exchange. as herr. and Il has tv
forces working on the Paducah Marior
Henderson line. One crew is hcloI
Salon coming this way. and thc 9th,
b working In the vicinity II Clay
h. r. Mcconnell. VI Paducah, the con
pany's treasurer. was here this wcc
cnroutc To Clay and he will make tril
regularly to see how the work Is pr
crossing along the line and viii stint
late the work by carrying the pay NJ
with him.
The patronage the section vii aiio'
iustihcs the improvements the paduc'
Home Company is making and all u
people In this section are rratihcd
the movements that are being mad
Besides a manager and several hncm'
the local system already rcquircs tv
day operators and one night cpcrat
at the drop board. but after the cot
plction " the new service, extra he
In the central office may h. required.