The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-29
Visit of Citizens Committee to
Columbus Causes Home
Telephone Company to
Adopt Automatic System.
SERVICE AT COLUMBUS
is MOST SATISFACTORY
Richmond Party Had a Great
Day in Ohio CapitaI-Spe-
CiaI Car, a Banquet, a
Lunch, Cigars, Etc., Free

lunCn, cigars, ETC., Free
Richmond is to have an automatic
telephone system, the most modern
and perfect that money can buy. Al
a meeting of the Home Telephone
Company directors to be held Friday,
the contract for the new system will
in all probability be let.
This sudden decision has come
about through the visit of a citizens
committee to Columbus yesterday,
where the automatic and manual sys
TENS OF telephone service are now in
use The committee which was large
and representative was highly pleas
ed with the automatic system. and on
the train home, vote was taken to
ascertain the views of the different
committee members. The vote was
unanimously in favor of the automat-
fc system.
A Telephone Education.
The visit of the committee to Col
along telephone lines for nearly ev-
cry member To say that they were
surprised and pleased at what they
saw is putting it mildly. They were
taken to the exchange of the auto
matte phone system and there ex-
planned the mechanism of the equip
ment. and allowed to give it thorough
tests. Every test was satisfactory
in that ii gave quick service. abso-
lutte privacy in conversation and en-
abled the person using the phone 20
hear plainly from any point over the
city.
The cOplmittee was shown how
nearly ten thousand subscribers in
Columbus are enjoying the most per-
feet telephone service yet conceived.
TIL automatic system is as the word
implies. There are no girls to give
numbers, the subscriber getting his
own number by a dial. easily oper-
ated on his own phone A lengthy
explanation of the system is not pos
sible. To put it briefly. each subscri-
Der under the automatic system is a
''hello girl" He not only calls his
own number. but by a buzzing sound
he can tell if the phone he is calling
is busy When talking no one else
can hear what he SAYS, other than
the person at the other end of tho
line The beauty of the automatic
phone in use in Columbus and the
even more modern one to be installed
here, is that it is so simple that the
M child nnPrafo il
Phone on Exhibition.
The best way for those interested
to get an adequate idea of an auto
matte phone is to see the one which
is to be on exhibition at the Chau-
tauqua There will be representa-
tive of the telephone company there
to explain its workings to anyone in
terested
Not only did the committee see for
itself what the new system is, but
business men. city officials and Off
GERS of the telephone company
strongly recommended it and told
of the satisfaction ii had given.
The visit of the committee will GER
tainly bear fruit for the Home Tele-
pIoHt SOiiphASr III SftiS VI
It is now an enthusiastic automatic
phone lover. and these twenty odd
committeeman will be talking the
new system to their friends for some |
time to come
Those in the Party.
-.ne party which went to Columbus |
yesterday in a special car was com
posed of A. C. Lindemuth. Joseph |
Zeller. Richard Sedgwiek, Perry j. |
Freeman. Horace Kramer, E. w. |
Craighead; John Davenport. Leroy |
Brown, B. B. Johnson. Benz F. Wiss- |
Ter. W. p. O'Neal. Harvey Brown. |
William Rosa. Ed Miller, AdoIph |
Blickwedel. II. H. Engelbert, Oscar |
Williams. J. w. Moore. Fred Charles |
Clifton Merrill. John Hegger. DIR. r. |
s. Schillinger, Charles Holten. Theo- /
rore Hill. Roy Compton. William Bal /
ley and VIII Keller They left here /
at FIVE o'clock yesterday and arrived /
in Columbus at nine. They were talk
en- Immediately to the telephone ex. /
change where they spent the remain
der of the morning.
After the visit to the exchange. the
party was taken to the Chittenden
Hotel where they were Joined by the /
mayor of Columbus. officers of the
board of trade. representative busi-
ness men and telephone officils. The
cIeeant BANQUET that was served was /
followed by a series of toasts, all bear
ir~ r. telephone situation
Speech Of Mayor Badger.
he speech OF Mayor Badger was es-
fec-cffv .i-nifica1t in that he Is q no