The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-21
ALTERATIONS AT
 TELEPHONE CQ.
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| toll line board to this new space. | The roof of the building, which is a two story brick structure, was held up by iron cross beams supported by four walls, these forming the ceiling of the | operating room to the roof, to be used 1 had to be faced was that of raising this roof, the work to be done in such a manner as not to interfere with the work of the operators. To do this it was necessary first to have a concrete and rail floor placed in the basement. From this floor two steel "I' beams were run up through the floor of the operating room to the roof be used as supports. Tn order that the work of the men should not interrupt the or orators two wooden shafts some six feet square were built and inside of these the men did their work.
 Next came the problem of deadening the noise of the masons and carpen- ters at work on the construction of the new floor and the raising of the roof A temporary false ceiling of three inch matched blanks was built over the op- erating room four or five inches above the top of the switchboard, and the same distance below the floor to be placed above it. This was arranged to be water and dust proof and was supported by eight inch timbers. In order to avoid the noise of mailing this temporary ceiling into place it was f1t- ted in sections outside of the building, and these when ready were bolted to- l Ierr 1syac the night time when the service is least used. An idea of the complexity of this work may be obtained from the accompanying illusrrdIlons and its ef- fectiveness is proven by the fact that the noise of the masons and carpenters, less than ten inches over the heads of the operators, has practically been deadened. Owing to the fact that the first part of the work had to be done a, night time, it has, of course, taken much lc1ger to complete the work that it ordinarily would have done, and the | job has been a much more expensive one.
 The plan of the company, when the floor is completed, is to install a new toll line switchboard on 1t, leaving the second floor to be used entirely for the handling of local business and small portion of the toll line switching work,
 The new toll line board will contain
 positions for thirty operators On one
 side of the room will he ten positions
 given up to the recording operators.
 These girls are the ones who take the
 subscribers toll Inc calls. On the
 second side of the room at right angles
 to he first part of the board will be
 twenty additional toll line positions. Of these four will combine recording and
 receiving the operating positions to be , used in night work, when the force Of , operators on duty, owing to the de- crease in the use of the telephone ser
 Twice, Is much smaller than in the day
 time. The present toll line switchboard
 has accommodations for but two oi
 these positions and the same number of positions for long distance operators , The new board will have three long distance positions for girls who will handle New York exclusively. There I will be ten positions for operators who
 will handle the toll line work which is
 confined entirely to Connecticut. This
 will be an increase of two operators
 over the number being used at the pre-.
 sent time. There is also a possibility
 that the operators school, in which
 girls are trained before they are allow.
 ed to go on the board will be situated
 on this floor.
 With the toll line switchboard re- moved to the third floor and a large space for expansion made by it's re- ,, movol from the floor below, two new scctioas each cy laining three opera tors positlens ,a ! be added to the To-
 cal switchboard, making total of ff- ty-ono opcratWa positions. The local
 switchboard RIll then be arranged SC that the hrTt 9Dufposltions will be giv.
 cn up to what aNe known as "B" oper. ators positions, lhe place where con-
 nactioMB for toll line are put Up. The
 next fVe will be taken up by operators
 vic handle exclusively toll line calls ccsninH from other parts of the state
 into Qhis city Beginning with position
 No. 10, and running up to No. 51, the he~ I'd will be given up entirely to loca operators who are the girls who han ! de nothing but the calls inside the city
 , When these changes have been com, plote3, New Haven will have an equip "nant for both toll and local service , 8econd to nc city of it's size in the . IgrMHtry. In connection with this fl i g- - be of inA,est that when these i'm 1, s@ q ements are completed, the New Haven switchboard will be larger thar n many of the Metropolitan exchanges ni It will have total capacity of praoti , really A900 lines, which means that ap : lsTroximately 14,0OO subscribers can bt . cared for Should the number of tele fslene users in the city increase, f ' would be an easy matter owing to thu
 spec for expansion made by the re , mcfil O the toll line board, to ado
 <~* ons tN the local board, thus carin! foi the Srowth in service.
 'The work of installing and cutting
 over the toll line board In itself is ; very &if1aplt task and means as mucl
 work. 'teanee as 1t may seem, as i would c,it over to the common batter!
 service n enc of the second class tele
 phone exec anges in the state.
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