Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-08-15
AN ORNAMENT
To City Is the New Northwes stern
Telephone Co. Building
Now Occupied.

AAAo AA''' WV 9SOAy N4ISn
OF the Northwestern Telephone COM
pany is now occupied by the operators
and manager, and the work of get
ting the delicate instruments in
shape for the telephone business is
almost completed. The new building
is credit TO Jamestown in every
way. The entrance issreached by a
eignt of stone steps and on entering
the building one finds himself in
public room, in which is the regular
booth for both long distance and To-
cal comm unication.
At the right OF the public room is
Manager Graves Office In which the
clerical and other work of that de-
par tment is conducted. In the rear
of the front room is the operating
room and the switch board which
contains at present two toll positions
and three local positions, with a
fourth local position about to be add
ed. The room also has a desk for the
chief operator and the wire chief
with his testing outfit for both local
and long distance communication.
The second floor is finished off into
one large room which will in the
near future be used as the operators
room and will contain a new and
larger switch board. This room will
contain positions for some twenty
opera tors, more than double the
number that are nou employed. It
will be large. light and roomy and
one of the model telephone operating
rooms in the northwest.
The basement of the, building is
finished off into power room where
the apparatus for generating power
for the storage batteries is placed, a
room for the ringing machines, a
work room and an operators retiring
room. This will shortly be furnished
with table, couch, gas stove, cup
board and cooking utensils. dishes,
ETC., and will be convenient place
for operators to rest, and If desired
secure refreshments or lunches. Az
present the operators are on eight
and half hour Shifts.
In the easement is the boiler room
and there is a large shed in the rear
for heavy supplies. The building is
designed so that in the future addi-
tions can be easily made when the
increased business demands it.
The busiest hours Of the Office
are from 1880 to nocn and from p.
no. to p. m. in the evening. The
growth of the telephone business in
Jamestown is quite marked over the
small Office. the inferior apparatus
and the pair of operators who pro-
vided telephone facilities not very
long ago.
At present the force cf operators
number twelve and are Jas follows:
Mary Hogan, Chief; and Iva Ander
son, Nellie Long, Bertha Brown, Ad-
die Hayes, EDNA Chilberg, Bernice
Chilberg, Gertrude MacGregor, Eliza
beth Plunkett, Cora Giese, Mamie
Hayes, Eleanor Steinbach.
Held off Building - Early this
srring the farmers in this part of
the state and ia this county at any
rate, did not undertake as much
building of farm houses, barns and
granaries as they had expected to
do. A we'll known lumber man of
this city is of the opinion that had
the season been more favorable In
prospects earlier, that the usual large
amount of farm buildings would have
been started. AS 1t was, the pros
poets for good crop did not show
up until it was too late to start
many farm buildings before harvest.
The lumber men expect however that
a good deal Of building will be
done later this fall and all together
about half as much as last year. In
jamestown, however, fully as much
building of all kinds has been and lis
under way as in 1905 and 1905.
Getting County Organlzed-The
states attorney. Geo. q. Stone of
Hettinger county, explains that the
estimate Of s42, 900 of expenses for the
ensuing year includes s6, 600 for couu-
ty building and grading, $1,000 or
bridges and s8, 900 for roads ..in :addi-
tion to the regular expenses of the
county and %, 500 extra expenses for
transcribing records. purchasing new
record books and many other items
OF expense incident to the organiza-
tion Of a new county. The plan Of
the commi issi0ners Is to bond the
county for. go. 900. sald bonds to bear
interest ct the rate OF s per cent, and
so spread over q period Of 10 Or is
years. Warrants draw interest at the
rate Of Z per cent, and thus there
would be q difference Of 2 pAr cent "a B
favor q bonds 2 q kinsonS Press