The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-01
HELLO GIRLS
MAY BE KEPT
GartIey, Back From Mainland,
Not Sure of Automatic
Practicability.

Alonzo Gartley, Who was sent to the
mainland to look into the telephone sy s
TENS in operation in the various cities
throughout the United States and par
( ticularly to investigate the automatic
telephone system, returned to Hawaii
on the Manehuria yesterday after an
absence of several months. During the
time he has been away, Mr.. Gartley
has visited the leading cities of the
East as well as the Pacific Coast, and
has gone deeply into telephone matters
in each place. While he is satisfied
/ that the automatic system is feasible
| here, he is also satisfied that the man.
ual system can be made to work out
to the utmost satisfaction in Homo
| lulu.
| AS a matter of fact said Mr..
Gartley yesterday afternoon to an AID.
vertiser representative, 81 am altogeth-
er OF the fence as to whether NV rec
| ommendation will favor installing the
automatic Or improving the manual sys-
tenn. There are so many things to be
considered in the matter, and | am not
| yet acquainted with the local end of
| the proposition. Mr.. Hummel is hand
| ling this, and / Will have a confer
ence with him in the morning.
- In the first place, there Were two
investigations that were necessary be-
fore the work of starting the new COM
pany could be carried forward. The
| first one considered the mechanical pos
| sibllities of the automatic phone, and
| the other was the financial possibilities
of operating it here with success. The
wires and outside distribution service
| is, [ know, in woefuily bad shape
at the present time, and it is with the
end in view of correcting this feature
! that Mr.. Hummel is working.
.Good results can be obtained with
! the automatic, | am sure, arc, the me
chanical md of this may &c 7loprovea
on shortly to fsuch an extent that it
would pay to install the system. |
have brought back s. vast AMOUNT OF
| data regarding the system, and this
will all have. to be gone over and
may be arrived at.
Il visited Los Angeles, San Fran,
cisco, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, CHI
cago, Marshalltown, Iowa; Columbus,
| Chic, and Philadelphia, all Of these
towns, with the exception of SeattAe,
having the automatic phone in opera.
ton The three wire system Is used
everywhere save in San Francisco,
which has probably the latest ms allied
automatic system IN the United states.
The San Francisco system is called
two-wire system, and appears to work
out better than any of the others II
it is decided to install the automatic
here, | think the two-wire would be
the pattern followed.
ssThis matter, however, cannot be
settled until l have had an opportunity
to get in touch with the local end
of it. =
George r. Carter, who is heavily in,
terested in the new company, stated
Yesterday that he knew nothing further
than what Mr. Gartley had told him
in a brief conversation, the gist of
which is given above.
GAS [ understand it, sad Mr. Car
ter, the thing has about narrowed it
self down to where we have to figure
whether it is financially worth while
for us to make scrap heap out of the
present system and install a new one at
a vast outlay of money The manual
system, which is in operation here ct
present, is in good condition, the work,
ing stock of the company is practically
new, and we are up against cold ques-
ton of cash when we talk about tins
1girlless phone proposition.
seA1l the down town outside fittings
will be underground, though, whether
or not the automatic system IS installed.
The system will be improved, and VII
be made such a one that no one will
have any cause to find fault with it. +"