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pany, and good selections are made.
At the north exchange the entire front
Of one floor is laid out as a recreation
room for the operators. 1t is supplied
with long couches, plenty of rockers with
arms, a handsome rug and large table
for papers. At Main, when l visited
there the operators had had the rug re-
moved but the floor was neatly waxed.
In both exchanges every evidence OF care
for the physical comfort of the operators
was discernible. The rooms were large, light,
comfortable and well ventilated. The
operating rooms are ventilated, and at
great expense. The paramount idea is:
No woman can work we'll in badly ven
tilated rooms. This is not in the light of a
favor to the operators. be it known and
understood, but. in the language of Uncle
Jacob, "Eet ees peesnus." If the opera
tors are not well cared for of what avail
is all that great paraphernalia of insulated
wires and underground work?
Everything is kept spotIessly clean. One
marvels at the possibility OF such a vast
enterprise being conducted and no particle
of dust being in evidence. Why, the
daintiest gown could be worn through the
whole establishment and not be soiled.
And. in the language of the old Scotch
woman Sugar could be licked from the
bright work.
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put at the switchboard Now she is
trained In a school established by the
telephone company for that purpose.
There she is taught the art of the SWITCH
board, drilled in that military discipline
which is an essential to a wel-regulated
operating room. 1t is line upon line and
precept upon precept here, as in all or
ganizations where uniformity is essential
for the conducting Of the whole on an
even and equable foundation.
The care and supervision of the tele-
phone company over its operators do
not stop with training them for their pro-
fession and attention to their physical
needs. The man who offends one OF the
operators offends the company, provided
always that she is blameless. Exceeding
forethought governs all care for the oper-
ators. They are part annd parcel Of
vast mechanism: they are known to be
human, but felt to be automatically the
particles which cannot yet be supplied
by machinery.
Eventually, in the great march of
science her work may be done by ma
chinery, by automatic fingers and arms.
lust as the great automatic arms of the
barges lift and carry buckets of coal.
slide them along over turns and high
shafts and tip them and turn the ccal out
into bins. But the automatic switchboard
will have to be very delicate orsaniza-
ton to be able to replace the human one
in the form of the telephone girl, who.
until that time will remain the care and
forethought of the great telephone COM
panies which need her alertness, her
skill and her power of endurance.
Evening star., 1907-11-17

q most, attractive part of the suite set
aside for them. Here tables are arranged.
polished and neat; chairs. new and COM
Portable, placed at the tables; great urns
are savory with good drip coffee and tea
A gas range stands near the matron, who
is ready to bake an apple or dozen IL
wanted or to prepare anything to their
tastes. The tea, coffee, sugar and cream
are supplied by the company, and the
girls furnish all other food for their
luncheons and other repasts. There is an
ice chest for the use of the girls The ice
is also provision Of the company.
Each exchange is conducted on the same
principles. The recreation rooms are fur
nished to suit the operators at each indi-
vidual exchange. In one they have arm
chairs, in another there are low sewing
chairs Many Of the girls prepare articles,
such as collars and bits of embroidery
and hemstitching. when they are resting
and off duty. Papers and magazines are
in plenty on the tables of the recreation
rooms, and they show that they are well
read. These are supplied by the COM
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"MANAcERS OFFICE.
NANACER IND CHEF.
OPERATOR.

a monitor switchboard At this board
stop watch observations on certain
number of subscriber lines are made with
out the operators knowledge. The at
tendants of the monitor boards in this
rendered. the time of connection. the time
Of disconnection and the manner of reply
from operator. A continuous supervision
is maintained over the operators by a
series of such monitor desks. And the
operators at these separate desks are also
women.
The operators on the switchboard are
relieved during the day. When set of
operators go to luncheon a fresh set re-
lieve them. At no time is the operating
room left improperly policed with opera
tors. At 1 o'clock a relief takes place. and
again at night. These reliefs are eff
fected without the loss of seconds time
to the subscribers inconvenience. 1t is
conducted by system of bell signals
The operators who are to relieve the ones
the board are assembled In the recrea-
ton rooms, in the rest rooms, or per-
haps in the dining room or at the lockers
where their cloaks and hats are housed for
the day. When the moment draws near
for them to go to the relief of those at
the switchboard they form in line, with
head receiver already adjusted, trans
mitter on neck. plug in hand. and when
the bell rings once they march a la
militaire to the operating room and there
pause, the bell rings twice and they scat
ter directly and quietly each to the place
in her section or position.
AS the operator who has been filling the
chair slips off it, takes away her plug
and steps down, her relief adjusts the
plug on her own individual set, slips upon
the chair. hand poised ready to make the
first connection of her trick" of duty
Each section is SO relieved; the change Is
made in the bat of an eye; each separate
switchboard is also relieved at the same
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It Modified Him.

John d. Rockefeller. jr. in one of the
last addresses that he made to his Sunday
school class before abandoning it, said of
Carefu!ness in business:
TOO many business men are careful or
one side, their own side, only. Thus a
coal dealer whom I used to know shouted
one afternoon to an employe who was
driving out of the yard:
Hold on there, lin! That coal can't
have been weighed 1t looks a trifle large
for ton to me-
Jim shouted back:
This amt a ton, boss It's two tons.
oh, all right said the dealer in a
Modified tone. Beg your pardon Go
ahead -
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A question was brought up some time
back conc erning uniforning the operators.
but it was tabooed-instanter. No man
wanted that funereal appearance which
body of girls would produce when garbed
all in black, even when relieved with white
collars and cuffs. Neatness and tidiness
in dress are greatly encouraged-in fact,
one might say enforced This is also a
part of the training VIXEN in the school.
AS to the matter of salary. the telephone
operator! Lave it in their power to earn
large or small salaries. At first, when
at school, they are paid 81 per week.
Few, if any, businesses educate their
operators. The telephone company not
only educates its operators. but pays
them while they are being educated
To enter a school a girl must be seven
teen; must have good health, perfect
hearing. eyes good and free from color
blindness. voice good and enunC!atiou
clear and distinct. She must- also be
tempered, patient polite and, above
all, courteous. She must at all times d.
port herself with dignity and never for
get that a lady is Il lady no matter where
she may be, whether 1t be on street, in
office in parlor hall
The character and home life of stu
dent are looked into and every effort is
made to keep the force at a high standard
After the students have graduated from
the school-prior to entering the school
they must have had d grammar school
educa cation-they begin at 81 per week. and
are mertoriously and systematically pro-
NOTED up through the different grades and
positions to salaries as high as $50 per
week.
During the year 1906 at Washington.
I6l applications were made for entrance
into the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Companys school for operators.
Three hundred and s!xty-eiGht qualified.
;:21 were taken into the school and 2I1
graduated. In most instances they were
all employed in the exchanges.
Evening star., 1907-11-17

To take care of requests for all kinds
OF information q separate switchboard IS
provided and is presided over by from
five to ten attendants in each exchange.
This is known as information And 1t
is i yertablc bureau of information. Here
is where the subscriber is referred when
questions ara asked which entail time for
answers. Some, perhaps. wonder why.
But moments consideration should set
all wondeTment upon that point aside.
The operator at the regular switchboard
is working at great speed making con-
nections. Il is easy to understand that
if the regular operator stopped long
enough to answer out of the ordinary
questions a number of calls would be
blocked or remain unanswered an undue
length Of time. So it was found eXpedient
and for the good of the patrons of the
telephone company TO establish an in
formation desk There all things per-
tanning to direct communications of sub
scribers are referred. And among these
questions are found many which are peril
nent and foreign as well, to the telephone
companys business.
Evening star., 1907-11-17
Back to the Tobacco Shop.

Jean de Reszke in his Paris school,
said New York musician. 'is very par
ticular about the pupils he accepts. OF
course he has many applicants; to have
been pupil of de Reszke's is in itself
enough to get singer good engage
ment but he puts these pupils through
a severe examination at the end of which
he rejects about 9s out of every 100 of
them.
AN intimate friend of mine, a young
tobacco salesman, has just returned from
Paris. He sings tenor little. and hav-
ing saved some money he went abroad
to enter de Reszke.S school and make a
second Caruso OF himself
But now he is back home selling to-
bacco again He tells me that he went to
see De Reszke, sang a song or two. and
in the silence that e1sued said hopefully:
And now that yOa have heard me sing
NJ. De ResZke, please tel ME what you
thlrfs my voice is best adapted to?"
''Se Reszke frowned thoughtfully and
answered:
'WhiSDaring'
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Brave and Clever.

Prince Dabro. the young Egyptian who
has come to America to study the cotton
industry, said in New York the other
day:
while We produce superb cotton in
Egypt. the, industry is not regulated there
with such wisdom as you employ. Clever
indeed. is the conduct of your American
cotton industry-as clever as the conduct
OF a young Pennsylvania undergraduate
whom | heard about the other day
This young man sat in Louis Quinza
drawing-roOm in conversation with a
Evening star., 1907-11-17

beautiful girl. The girl, looking pensive-
y into the fire, said:
THE man L marry must be both brave
and clever
"'Well.' said the young man, when we
were skating on the Wissahickon, and
came to the dangerous spot and broke
through, 1 saved your life, didn't I?'
She smiled at him roguishIy.
"'That was brave, she said, but it
was not clever, was it?'
Yes said he. it was. 1 led you to
the dangerous spot on purpose
"She threw her arms about him, mur-
muring:
You dear"
Evening star., 1907-11-17

\ long list of some of these questions
was given the writer. Here are some OF
them:
''W hat IS the nearest way to get to
lexington without paying two car fares
l am in Georgetown; also at what corners
will transfer? How many minutes
apart are the lexington cars al street,
What is the 18th of February:'
How can an operator tell when a line
is busy?'
rs there skating at the parks
Tell me a few places, and give me the
, phone numbers of them also, that sell
foreign souvenirs?"
When is the new city hall to be oc-
cupied?"
What car can 1 take to go 70 Takoma
Park. and how long will it take to get
there?'
What are the hours of worship at the
cathndral?"
What is the postmaster's name at
BaItimore?''
why is the city halls flag at half
mast?"
Why do I receive Information every
time l call q numbsr?''
q
Hello Where is the fire.
Give me a groceryman r street.
/ 10 not know the name or number of the
block.
! What is the weather forecast for to-
morrow"
Why have they stopped the cars
! AT what time does the Eastern High
School leave out in the afternoon
/ when do the park concerts Begin"
/ rs the Zoo open all day Sunday
Why is the Zoo private phone?"
Give me phone number of a coored
man who conducts d coal yard in the
middle of the block in 1Gtll street,
VITO is the president of the Y. NJ
c. AZ"
/ When are visitors allowed in the cit,
jail?'
! When does Nine. kohlermum's hair
dressing establishment close for the even.
ing?"
w hen do the base ball games begin"
/ How many Is in travelling. traveller
traveled?
What was the former name of Queer
/ Victorian
Can you recommend mo to good
I
Where Is the Bliss buidins?'
| How do you write a check-With tbs
numerals or spell the numbers"
! Where can one get a marriage license?
IF Mrs. So-and-So calls me up tell hel
l am out, and at Mime. Blanke's."
is Gen Crozier in the army or the
navy?"
| When you ring the bell don't ring but
once, and that easy. The baby i:
asleep
| rs my hat on straight"
Hello central! Say hello That wa.
my little doggy you were saying hello
to-"
And so on, ad infinitum, runs the inant
and useless questions over the telenhone
At the information desk" IS kept an
alphabetical list. street address record
numerical record of listed subscribers Il ne
those connected with tie service since III,
issue of the current directory The Who'll.
system is. therefore. organized Ike al
automatic machine. That his plan ha:
produced good results is apparent Il
not only in comparison With earlier years
but in comparison with other cities. Tht
| Washington service Is inferior to none
| In order to obtain knowledge of tn,
service given the subscribers the com
pany maintains an Conservation table oi
Evening star., 1907-11-17
The Most Suspicious Ever.

Henry Clews, the banker and author,
was talking at the Union Club in New
York about a certain financier.
mo wonder the man is SO successful
sd i'd Mr.. Clews. He is the most careful,
the most suspicious fellow 1 ever heard
OF. In fact, he reminds me of a Stat
fordshifa farmer my father used to tell Of
1T was said of this farmer that, when
ever he bought a herd of sheep. he ex-
a mined each sheep closely to make sure
that il had no cotton in it."
Evening star., 1907-11-17
The Making of a Journalist.

Henry H. Ashton. a Virginia City cap
ltaiist, has In his library. richly bound in
crushed Levant, those early volumes of
the Virginia City Enterprise to which
Mark Twain contributed.
The faded pages contain fnnumerable
specimens Of the famous writer's qua mt
humor. Mr.. Ashton often points out the
first paragraph that Mark Twain wrote on
his arrival in Virginia City. The para
graph runs:
"A thunderstorm made Beranger poet,
mothers kiss made Benjamin West a
painter and salary of SIS a week makes
us journalist"
Evening star., 1907-11-17

one OF the Biltmore gardeners, wrote and
told me about 1t the other day
1t seems that at the entrance to Bilt-
more there was sign that read Please
90 not pluck the flowers without leave
Well, one visitors day, some Joker add
ed an S to the signs last word. AS re-
SUIT. every visitor left Biltmore that day
with delighted smile and an enormous
bouquet"
Evening star., 1907-11-17
A Sly Hit.

Henry James, said publisher, Lives
at Rye. one OF Engiand's cinq portes
but recently he left Rye for a time and
took a house in the country near the es-
tate of millionaire jam manufactur re
tired This man, having married an
ears daughter, was ashamed of the trade
whereby he had piled up his fortune.
The jam manufacturer one day wrote
Mr.. James an impudent letter, vowing
that it was outrageous the way the
James servants were trespassing on his
grounds. Mr.. James wrote back:
Dear Sir: I am very sorry to hear
that my servants have been poaching Oh
your preserves.
"P. S-Excuse my mentioning your
preserves
Evening star., 1907-11-17
A Nasty Trick.

IAN amusing but rasty trick was played
in the early autumn at George W. VAN
derbilts Biltmore estate, near Asheville' y
said Pittsburg florist "A friend of mine,
Evening star., 1907-11-17

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Evening star., 1907-11-17

TNC f girls have been the connecting
link between lines in the telephone
\ business, they have been tn" sub
jects of much Ievity, and i'm many
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The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26

Davey & Maieh for fine candies.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26

tick addition, s.tuated opposite Cap
itol square, Carson City, Nevada.
Rent reasonable
Peters Real Estate Agency.
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NOTICE OF Application to Appropriate
The Public Waters of the State
Of Nevada,

notice OF Application to Appropriate
The Public Waters of the State
Of Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that on the
lst, day Of December, 1906, in accord
anec with Section %, Chapter XLVI,
of the Statutes of 1905, one Western
Nevada Electric G mpany Of Carson
City, County of Ormsby and State Of
Nevada made application to the
State Engineer of Nevada for permis-
sion to appropriate the public waters
of the State Of Nevada. Such an
plication Is to be made from Ash
Canyon Creek at points N E. u Of
S. w. Il Sec. 10, T. Is N, R. 10 E.
by means of dams and cubic feet
per second is to be conveyed to points
n. E. a of S. w. a Sec. II, T. ism,
r. 10 E. by means Of flume and pipe
lines and there used for generating
electric power. The construction of
said works shall begin before May
1, 1907 and shall be completed on or
before May l, 1908. The water shall
be actually applied to a beneficial
use on or before May /, 1909.
Signed: HENRY THURTELL
State Engineer.
Date of first ublication, Dec. 2,
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26

Don't forget the Eagles ball On
February End. 1t wiz be something
worth going to.
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COME AND GET
~. YOUR GARDEN SEEDS

The Appeal has received from
Washington through the kindness OF
Senator Newlands and Congressman
Bartlette a large quantity of garden
seeds which can be had at This ONCE
for the asking.
Come here during office hours and
stock I'D for the Spring garden sass
planting. These seeds are warrented
to grow in any climate and produce
the same vegetables named IN the
label.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26
SHORTHAND IN THIRTY DAYS

Simple method of shorthand within
the reach of everybody. Easy to
learn and results satisfactory. Price
of the course $40.
Apply of Mrs. G. Warren Hull, =.
o. Box ia, Carson City, New.
Sir Conan Doyle is reported serious
ly i'll in London of ptomaine poison
ing.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26
BAIhS

Johnnie Viena has now the finest
baths il tAe ity RAINING in connection
with his barser shep. The appoint.
ments make tathing at his place lux.
urious 10 a marked degree and to get
shaved there means a relaxation from
lne cares that fret the day and gen.
eral peace Of mind hard to get else.
where. Il
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26
DICK BRIGHTS

The resort has been thoroughly At
ted up for the coming OF the legisla-
ture ana aims to maintain the same
high standard that it has always main
tanned whether the legislature is here
O not
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NOTICE..

Ladies, have just received new
Spring styles and samples in tailor
made suits, skirts, Jackets, etc., even
IL =. Goa; b specialt..-. Every garment
made to measure and satisfaction
guaranteed.
MRS. X. KNOWLES.
Representing the Leading La0es
Tailoring Company Of Chicago.
Rooms 13, Arlington Hotel. 1w
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THE LATEST ARRIVAL

We beg the arrival of the INTERNATIONAL
TAILORING cos line Of Spring and Summer Samples.
Comprising about 500 Of the most attractive fabrics None
upto-dae-none comprehensive The styles, the
latest Everything The execution of your order will be
perfect of course. The International system Of Tailoring without
peer all the world Call and congratulate the latest
ARRIVAL. It's bouncer.
F. w. DAY, Three Block West Of Park Hotel
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-26

Whenever you wan: a real, good,
mixed drink, you must go to Dick
Bright's to get It. Others are good,
but these are better. Private card
and wine rooms help to enjoy them.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

peated until the gas is thoroughly distributed This
entire "exploslve gallery will be modelled arter|
and light Improvement upon-that OF the BEL
gan administration OF mines at Franeries.