Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-31
NO MORE CALLING OF
RAILWAY STATIONS
NEW IDEA AB0LISHES ALL
VOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Simple Device Tells Passengers Their
Next Stations, Backward as Well
as Forward, and Cannot
Make Mistakes

Los Angeles has another invention
that will undoubtedly become one Of
the greatest boons to the average rail-
way manager. The great difficulty with
most railway arrangements is, in addi-
ton to procuring competent men for
the service, the requirements that they
call the names of the next and arriv-
ing stations distinctly has long been
source of annoyance to them all.
The National Street and Station Sig
nal company, recently organized to
take over the patents of Mr. Cullen of
Long Beach, solves the problem.
In the offices of the company in the
Central building they have a model of
the newly invented idea which illus
trates the idea to a certainty, and it
requires but a glance at it to realize
what it will accomplish in the an
nouncing of stations on railways.
Speaking of the difficulty of making
vocal announcements on railway
trains, the Northwestern Bulletin, a
railway magazine has the following to
say:
rs the present method of announc-
ing stations-that is, vocally-some-
thing of a failure? A respectable
share of the travelling public will make
noise saying Yes to that question
like two sets of college boys trying to
ride the people who do not hear or do
not understand, but the truth is that
next stations are all too frequently an
nounced by callers as If their mouths
were full of hot mush which they were
forbidden to dispose of. This is espe-
cially the case on suburban trains, and
one humble travellers observations
lead to the belief still more especially
so on surface and elevated roads than
on railroads.
1.-THE idea of signaling next station
stops by means of boards with the sta
tions name plainly printed thereon,
the same to be placed in position Inn
mediately after leaving the last stop
ping place, is by no means new one.
And it has met objections. Some peo-
pie can't read; some will be asleep and
neglect to wake up early enough to
see their station name in time to get
off. Very good objections; but some
people can't hear, either, and some will
sleep so soundly that no station caller
this side of the gentleman waiting
with his trumpet for a job can wake
them. Many methods have been pat
ented, but very few-very few, indeed
practically tried out. So until some
one invents the really big thing in au-
tomato xt-station-showing some
thing cheap, easily arranged, modestly
situated so as not to hide ads, yet con-
until then we shall hear the monoto-
nous Mes stashin's Clark'n AIMS!
Cha FIR Wood Amin, 'Allstedy"
The model In operation Immediately
solves the difficulty and it will pay
those interested in such things to call
at the offices of the company and see
the model in operation that acts auto
matically and tells everything to the
passengers without word being
spoken.
49,. 4. j. + s'ssS's* *&***#***s
was cut. The actual road test sur
passed fondest hopes. Power 1t has
in abundance for all road conditions,
and speed that makes it worthy COM
panion of the Halliday Forty.
In the model p runabout the same
changes have likewise been made on
the Model G chassis, to give 1t the full
roadster effect. Long hood, divided
front seats, rakish column, extreme
tenders, short steps and rumble seat
with rear entrance also give this model
that quality that may be called style.
1t is a classy little car.