Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-20
AUTOMATIC PHONES
FOR $500 PEOPLE
TO ERECT NEW BUILDING
FOR AUTOMATIC PHONE.
Plat Talks on System Adopted for
Honolulu - SAYS They Will
Save Trouble and Increase Bust.
ness-To Begin Work Soon.

Now that the Mutual Telephone |
Company mas decided to do away with |
the historic Hello" girls. the people |
are greatly interested to know some
thing of the new telephones into which !
they will talk without central" girl |
at the other end of the line. without |
her, many fussy, ill.tempered people |
will be lost, and It will be sort of a |
victory In a way for the little Miss
who says sometimes sweetly, some. |
times otherwise. In your ear Number |
please" as We can no longer Jaw her |
for imaginary troubles, or delays In |
getting connections.
The Mutual Company has purchased |
the old Brickwood residence on Adams
Lane, and will build modern fire.
proof building for the installment of
the new system which is to cost them
s61, $50, $4,000 being allowed for the
present equipment. In regard to the
automatic phone c. p. Plat. the rep.
resentative who is here to put in the
system. says:
THE new system will include 20OO
switches. which will provide for $500
| phones. as there will be 500 extcn.
, sions. With our arrangement man
can have four separate telephones in
his Office and yet have only one mum
Der The equipment for Honolulu to.
! gether with the country equipment
| will provide for the installation Of 2SOO
telephones. But anticipate that with.
in short time from the beginning Of
Its operation the growth of the plant
will warrant additional equipment. In
fact, shall be greatly surprised II
within year from the time the auto.
matte system Is installed the Mutual
hea subscribers. The equipment Ia
be furnished provides that additions
up to Ave thousand lines can be made
without additional installation.
''The present equipment Of the tele
phone system here findt be greatly
inadequate to the needs Of the city
Notwithstanding the fact that 1t repre-
sents considerable money outlay.
Il say-and Mr.. Hummel, our engi
neer, backs me up In the statement
that there can be nothing finer than
the new system we are going to In.
stall. II Is the finest that money can
buy. The principal thing is to pro
vide for the convenience Of the public
and that is what this new system will
do.
II think that II will take about
ninety days for the equipment to be
shipped and received here. and II will
take three months or more to install
IT, Men will be sent on from Chicago
to do the work and they will begin as
soon as the material Is on the ground.
There will be virtually no inconvcn.
fence to the public In changing over
from one phone to the other The
automatic phones will be installed In
the houses and the old phones will
not be taken out until after the sys.
TEN has been changed over. This can
be done practically in one night
probably on Sunday night so as Ia
cause the least Inconvenience. II will
simply mean cutting out one system
and putting the other in. There will
he twenty switchboards. and 1t will
not take over -four men In the switch.
room to look after them
"The automatic telephone has been
greatly imnrnyad la,aIy ,,5 ,h,, 4, A.,