The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-10
NO MORE CRANK JERKING
Right Up to Now VIII Be Daw-
sons New Telephone Plant.
WONT HAVE TO RING CENTRAL

And Then Ring Some More and Wait
and Say Things. Automatic Sig
mails for the Hello Girls Will Be
FLASHED on Switchboard Equipped
With Hundreds of Tiny Electric
Lamps When Their Attention and
Services Are Desired.
The statement in the last issue of
The News that the Dawson TeIe-
phone Co. had decided to install an
entirely new plant at a cost Of sew
eral thousand dollars was read with
interest by the general public, and
especially so by the patrons of the
company.
1t is intended to give the same
class of service that is given to peo-
pie who live in the large cities.
The company intends to do away
with the old style local battery
coffee grinder" telephones, and fur
nish in their place neat, compact tel
ephones which signal Central au-
tomatically when the receiver is re-
moved from the hook.
To accomplish this means MANY
things besides changing the tele-
phone sets at the subscribers sta
tlons. 1t means not only bran new
telephone sets, but new transmitters,
new hand telephones and a new com
plete office installation, with a power
plant to furnish the current to run
the entire plant.
The new switchboard will be
equipped with hundreds of tiny cleo
trio lights instead of the old style
drops, which have to be restored bv
hand every time a subscriber calls
Central, or rung off when through
with a conversation. With the new
board when a subscriber wishes
Central he will remove the receiver
from the hook, which Immediately
lights tiny lamp associated with
the line jack in the switchboard.
The operator will plug in, automati-
cally extinguishing this lamp, Sc
cure the number wanted, and plug
in and ring on the required line.
Until the party who is called an
sWers his telephone small lamp as
ISOLATED with the cord used in MAX
ing the connection will burn, thus
telling the operator that the party
has not answered, making it unnec-
essary to cut in on the connection
to inquire. AS soon as the party
VINO is called does answer this light
VIII go out, but when the conversa-
ton is finished and both parties hang
up their receivers a lamp will glow
on each cord used in the connection.
automatically ringing off. These
lamps VIII go out when the cords
are removed from the calling and
answering lines, thus completing a
switch.
II the subscriber is not answered
promptly, or desires another con
nection at the completion of the first
one, he can easily attract the oper-
ator's attention by moving his switch
hook up and down slowly, thus fash
ing the lamp at his line terminal.
AS may be imagined, the miniature
lamps used in this board cannot be
operated by the regular electric light
current used in Illuminating the
city, as the voltage is too great. so
mat storage batteries will be pro-
Vlded with capacity great enough
10 run the exchange whole week.
TO provide against the possibility
OF a shutdown a gasoline engine and
generator will be included in the
outfit, so that the exchange will not
IN any way be dependent upon the
local electric light plant.
The contract with the company of
whom the apparatus has been bought
provides that the new system shall
oe installed and working by April
70 1903. By that date all the tele-
phone sets in the town will have
Deen changed to the new type, the
Statlons rewlred, new protectors in
stalled and the new board cut into
service, when the subscribers to the
exchange will receive service lust as
good as is furnished anywhere in the
United States.