Arizona republican., 1908-04-05

his domain. To do this he brings the long distance telephone into play. One after another he calls up the managers of the branch plants pr offices. secur- ing from each a brief report which they have ready for him. and giving brief instructions to each man. Such Iong-distance conversations are reg ular feature of the telephone day at the exchanges in the big cities. Daily reports are made between cities as widely separated as Boston and Oma- ha.- There are two or three-score of men in New York who call up branch establishments in Pittsburg. St Louis Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo. Boston, and. perhaps. 2 dozen other cities. In this way he keeps in touch with every part of his business and makes what amounts to a personal tour of inspec- tiCn every day The saving Of time which this use of the long distance telephone makes possible cannot be computed with eXactness. for it sup plies something that was altogether
 impossible twenty years ago. To GOV CT the ground that he traverses in this way would require a week, even in
 
 the modern business man is at least eight days ahead of his grandfather at the end cf his second hour. Last year according to the report of the Ameri- can Telegraph company, there were l5S.9 .996, 900 toll connections over its lines, which means, approximately. half a million long-distance conversa- tions every day to satisfy the Amer ican's insistence upon the rapid hand ling of his business.
 Throughout the day the telephone plays a leading part in piling up hours of saved time to the credit of the man of broad affairs. He makes. changes and cancels appointments over the talking wire. He arranges business deals perhaps involving millions in the same way. and if he is suffi- ciently important parsonage he may even attend directors meetings by having proper connections made with the office. A man who occupies as inn portant position in the financial world and who has four telephone instru- ments on his desk, is authority for the statement that he can get twenty times as much work in the course of a day by the constant use of the tele- phone as he could without this import ant adjunct. And the ratio is stead -ly rising" he added. as more and more people are connected with the general telephone system l look to see the day, within another ten years. when l can talk to any business man, 1 householder or farmer in any part of ! the country without moving from my desk Dealing only with actualities. | however. the big business man of to- ! day by the instrumentality of the l, telephone adds another two weeks to his working capacity during the day | over what his father could acccom- plish.
 The telegraph plays its part chiefly | as a complement to the telephone, en- abling the business man to reach those | who are not in direct connection with l the telephone or to deal with matters | that require less immediate action Not ] that the telegraph is to be considered | slow. for message has been sent from i the floor of the New York Produce ex- change and an answer received all l within space of a minute. Although l it cannot annihilate distance quite so | completely as the telephone, over two | million miles of telegraph wire are re- quired to carry the messages of Amer ican business. which number in the case of a single company upward of 15O. O.OO0, ,000.
 The filing systems for correspond ence information and accounts now in use in all large business establish ments are too familiar to need de- scription. They at least double the business mans efficiency by enabling him to lay hold of any information which he may require in the course of business by simply summoning a clerk and calling for it. Similarly the hand camera and the engineers blue print are of particular use as time-savers by . information that could be