Evening journal., 1907-01-24
PASSING OF THE
TELEPHONE POLE
D. & A. Company Finishing
Extensive Improvements in
its Telephone System
MODERN IN EVERY RESPECT

Three hundred and five thousand dollars
have beon spent ia Wilmington by The
Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and
Telephone Company during the past year.
Before 1907 has past j. H. Mehaffey, the
local manager, atatos that Wilmington
win have telephone plant not duplicated
by any city of the same size in the coun-
try. Nearly six hundred poles viii have
been replaced by conduts placed in many
Of the main streets of the city During
the last eighteen months the under
ground system between this city and
Philadelphia has been Joined by main
conduit laid on King streat from S n
TO Eighteenth street. The pole line. carry
ms one 120 pair cable and 80 open wires
through North Market street was thus
replaced.
A very heavy line on Twonty-socond
street east Of Pine and on electric light
poles on Vandever avenue has been re-
placed by a conduit laid on Vandever
avenue between Market street and Clay
mont street. That locality has been COM
pctely ring-wired.
In 1905 the company tlaid conduit on
King and Walnut streets South OF Sixth
street A heavy pole line on SOUTH French
and East Fourth streets has been re-
moved as n result. Since these wires
were IN the centre OF the business dis
trct and quite near electric light wires
the fire conditions have been much inn
proved
Conduit on Walnut street between Sixth
and Fifteenth streets laid last year. will
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rying three cables and sixty wires.
BY July ]. 1907 the conduit laid last year
on Adams street and Maryland avenue
from Front 10 Stroud, on Van Buren, and
Sixth 70 Maple, on Franklin apd Sixth TO
Front. on Broome and Sixth TO Front and
on Searles and Sixth TO Front streets viii
be cut in service. This win enable the
company to remove about $50 poles be-
tween shipley and searles Tenth and
Front streets.
All wires now on electric light poles
West of Maryland avenue and south Of
Front street will be removed and cut into
the underground plant
/ Wilmington has cause to pride hers II
on the Bell telephone system and upon
/ the fact that practically overy experiment
made and step taken by the ID. and A.
Telephone Company in this city has been
a success.
The addition to the $4,000 building al
Sixth and shiploy streets IS complete and
the cut-over OF the now $4,000 swith-
board will be made about February H.
] The underground plant in this city. ex-
elusive OF the twcnty-seven mile con.
duit 20 Philadelphia cost $4,000 No city
of the same population within fifty miles
Of Philadelphia has received the sam,
telephone plant Improvements
Wilmington has the honor Of having
received one OF the first toll lines Z,
philadelphia OSS2). the first swltchbcar,
built by the Western Electric Company
now the largest manufacturing compan,
Of telephone apparatus in the world. tn
first conduit In the ID. and A. territor,
and the first common battery switchboar,
IN the same territory.
BY the installation OF the SooO hn
switchboard Wilmington again breaks a.
record IN having the largest installatioi
in "a now office ever made IN Philadelph
or the fourteen surrounding counties
During 1907 an official 90 the compan'
stliod That eehsy per cent of the Rol
telephone wires % ihi, city win hae'
teau riscsi Under ground