The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-08-20
WILL INSTALL
. AUTOMATIC SYSTEM
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purchased as the site for the proposed
building and construction operations
will commence soon.
"The new system,'' said Mr.. Platt
yesterday afternoon after the agree
nent had been entered into, twill in.
flude 1000 switches, which will provide
or $500 phones. as there will be 500
Extensions. With our arrangement a
nan can have four separate telephones
n his Office and yet have only one
number. The equipment for Honolulu
| ogether with the country equipment
will provide for the installation of $500
telephones. But I anticipate that with
n short time from the beginning of
is operation the growth of the plant will
warrant additional equipment: In fact,
hall be greatly surprised if within
ear from the time the automatic sys-
EN- is installed the Mutual company
aloes not have a thousand new sub
cribers. The equipment to be furnish
I'd provides that additions up to five
thousand lines can be made without
additional installation.
"The present equipment of the tele-
phone system here find to be greatly
inadequate to the needs of the city,
Notwithstanding the fact that it repre-
ents considerable money outlay.
~ say-and Mr.. Hummel, our engi-
Beer, backs me up in the statement
hat there can be nothing finer than
4 he new system we are going to install.
lit is the finest that money can buy.
The principal thing is to provide for
he convenience of the public, and that
Is what this new system will do.
81 think that it will take about
,linety days for the equipment to be
ihipped and received here. and it will
AXE three months or more to install
8 t. Men will be sent on from Chicago
4 do the work and they will begin
soon as the material is on the ground.
here will be virtually no inconveni-
nee to the public in changing over
rom one phone to the other. The
utomatic phones will be installed in
he houses and the old phones will not
e taken out until after the system has
been changed over. This can be done
ractically in one night-probably on a
sunday night so as to cause the least
inconvenience. 1t will simply mean
utting out one system and putting the
Their in. There will be twenty switch
cards, and it will not take over four
len in the switchroom to look after
hem.'
Mr.. Platt explained that the auto
i latic telephone has been greatly i'm
Z roved lately and that it is impossible
o get the wrong number if the right
lumber is called. Instead of the big,
lumsy instrument in use in some other
tiles that have the automatic system,
he new phone is smaller and handler
Instrument, with a much smaller dial
nd one that works much faster than
oes the old kind. In fact. there is no
ppreciable hesitation in the working of
he dial.
If any phone gets out of order, the
act is Immediately recorded in the
witchroom so that the switchboard
IAN knows it before the user of the
a telephone does and he can Immediately
traighten matters out. There are buzz
ers, bells and other indicators at vari-
us places in the switchroom to give
varning of any trouble.
The telephone wires, George r. Car
err states, are all to be put under
q round, which will add greatly to the
eauty and attractiveness of the city.
Mr.. Plat is elated at having placed
is system here, for he looks upon Ho-
0lulu as the stepping stone to the ORR.
Mt in his business. As Mr.. Carter
s ut it, "Mr. Plat is going to China
install an automatic telephone in the
ouse of each of the four hundred mil
ON inhabitants of China. I"
Mr., Plat, as above stated, returns
the Coast on the next Manchuria
ut he expects TO come back to Homo
ilu next winter on his way to the
Irient,