The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-03

Every modern equipment used I'M te-
( leeraphy viii te installed in the new
offices which The Postal Telegraph
cable company viii occupy in the new
+ Boston block, Isl Main street, about
June J.
When the CompanYS new quarters
/ are ready for occupancy they will be as
complete as any telegraph offices in
the country The customers lobby win
be large. A tile floor of an attractive
pattern is to be used here. Opening
off OF the lobby viii be the local man
ayers spacious office connecting with
the cashier and boOkkeeper's office. The
messengers entrance viii be from the
rear, on the right side of which will be
a row Of steel clothes lockers and sup
ply lockers. There Will be room for
tWenty-siX operators in the operating
room The tables here as well as the
other office furniture viii be of an at
tractively finished wood.
Expert Engineers Coming.
Two electrical engineers are coming
out from Chicago this week TO take
charge Of installing the dynamo, switch
board and system Of wiring. The plans
for this department were drawn by J.
T. Looney. division electrical engineer.
of Chicago and are most modern. All
the wires running to and from the oper-
ating tables Will be beneath a four-inch
cement floor. The wires viii be laid
through a series Of twO-inch ducts.
These duets carry the wires 10 all
parts Of the operating room as shown i'm
the accompanying Illustration. Only the
most recently equipped telegraph offices
are supplied with this under-floor sys-
TEN of wiring. From the terminal frame
the main wires are connected with the
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ing frames. then sort Of a pin jack
arrangement comes into play and the
wires are legged up to a position on
the table where the operators are sta
toned. The wires enter an asbestos
lined cabinet on the operating tables
from hand hole in the floor. The pip
ing Of the wires and the covering of
the cement floor makes the operating
room practically fire proof
The standard postal spring jack slate
sWitchboards are TO be used. The dyn-
amo which : to be installed IS the first
pat in in a Utah or Montana telegraph
office. Its use Of course is to furnish
current to the wires.
The Salt Lake Postal Telegraph bic
office is In charge of D. McNicOl. who
has been the local manager for the
company here for the past three years.
During the time that he has been i'm
charge OF the company SAT- Lake
business patronage OF the Postal sys-
tenn has steadily Increased. The COM
pauy reports a growing business i'm all
parts OF the United States and it has
offices in nearly every large city i'm the
country.
The local office is in the eighth dis.
trjyt and is under the SUPPLEMENTARY
o. W p. : Hawk. who makes salt
lake mis- headquarters. Mr.. Hawk looks
after the company's interests from
E5Vjins. Wyo.. TO Spokane, Wash. lie
viii nave his Now OFF IS ON one Of the
upper floors 0s the Boston block, and
they, tu0. ATE lp be arranged i'm fine
style.
AIr Hawk js ponce in tho tcle-
graph business i'm the Rocky Mountain
regions. He was for many years lessee
and general manager OF the Rocky
Mountain Telegraph company in Mon
taua and negotiated the deal by which
that system became a part ofsthe Pos
tai