The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-26
TELEPHONE GIRLS
 HAVE A SCHOOL
More Than One Hundred Pu-
 pills Trained in Atlanta
IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS
Object of the School Is to Train the Girls to Be Expert Operators. Some Details of Unique
 Undertaking.

Atlanta, February 24-(Speeial.)-A school which pays weekly salary to it's students and which guarantees remun- erative and attractive positions as re-. ward for their diligence is almost an un- heard of institution.
 Such a school is in actual operation in Atlanta, and has been successfully conducted for about six months, during which time more than 100 pupils have graduated Only girls are admitted to this school and each one begins to draw a salary from the day she Is enrolled in the first class. Not every girl who ap- plies to the school is admitted, despite the desire of it's instructors to keep the cIasses up to their full quota. Special requirements are made and unless these requirements are met the doors of the school are not open to the applicant.
 Bright young girls between the ages of 15 and 25, slightly above the aver age height, with delft fingers, clear eye sight, keen of ear, possessing well mod ulated voices free from brogue, and above all else, an even temper that is difficult to ruffle, a tact that will calm and humor the most obstreperous man; such are the qualities required and de- manded of every girl who enters a tele- phone training school. The field is a broad one. presenting excellent opportu- mites for quick promotion and increases in salary Aside from the initial allur- ing prospect of receiving a salary for at tending school, the future is even brighter for the successful graduate.
 The telephone training school in At lanta was established last August by Superintendent R. L. West of the South ern Bell Telephone company. It is the largest and most complete in the coun- try with the exception or the New York school. It was made necessary to meet the constantly growing demand for a uniform method to govern operators in receiving and making calls, and to solve the problem of securing trained girls as telephone operators.
 The effort of every telephone company is to secure uniformity, not only in the system used, but in the operation. In former years the methods observed in each exchange were practically disere- tionary with the exchange manager. As a result when operators were changed 1Ioul OHe eNc4dnBe to another more or less confusion was caused in the ex- change to which the operator was trans ferred. The training school has caused telephone operators to be placed upon a scientific basis. The system has been evolved and adopted after years of study by experts. The general plan has for it's object speed accuracy and in telligence.
 Speed and Accuracy.
 The training school grew out of the demand of telephone officials and the public for instantaneous service. The telephone is essentially a time saver, and tae training school makes for instant service and absolute accuracy. System has been introduced into telephone op- eration and what system has done for other business institutions 1t Is doing for this feature of the telephone business. Every detail even the slightest, in the operating room has been reduced to a uniform basis. Every operator is taught