Arizona republican., 1910-12-21
.T0 IMPROVE WIRE SERVICE Western Union Plans Local
 Innovations
 NEW CIRCUITS ESTABLISHED
Will Have Line to Buckeye Working in Three Weeks, Will Install Messenger Call Boxes and Remodel Its City Offices.

Within the next two or three weeks work will be begun on the entire remodeling and rewriting the en- terior of the Western Union offices in this city. The counters will be moved back considerable distance. giving more commodious lobby, and the receiving and sending arrangements will be materially improved. When the work is completed, the local of- fices will be the most complete and best equipped in the territory and better able to handle the constantly increasing volume of business from this point
 The new copper circuit installed to handle the Fl Paso business is in working order and volume of busi- ness is being handled daily which quite taxes its capacity. Messages To and from the city of Fl Paso are sent direct. the Fl Paso wire being used exclusively for that purpose
 With the exception of a small gap at Red Rock, the third wire has been installed to Los Angeles and new poles have been erected along prac- tical1y the entire route. which was now in constant use direct from this city. via Maricopa to Los Ang- eles. and these wires being dupleXed it is possible to have four messages in transit simultaneously. By the du- pleX arrangement it is possible to send q message and receive another over the same wire at the same time. IL has been demonstrated that an average of six minutes elapses be- tween the receipt of a message over the counter in this city until it is in the Los Angeles offices. An even shorter space of time elapses with reference to messages to Fl PasO. The connections in each instance are di- rect and there are no relay or cutting in delays.
 Within the next three weeks the line to Buckeye and Hassayampa will be completed and service instituted. A gang of seventeen men under Fore man J. N. Meredith reached Cashion station yesterday and has strung wire to that point. The linemen are keep ing close on the heels of the pole men and each section will complete its work at about the same time. This gang occupies its own private car and besides has a cooking and dining car. where the best of meals are served and where are to be found all necessary comforts. This line paral- lels the tracks of the Buckeye rail road, the poles standing on the rail- road company's right af way. The poles will be used jointly by the Western Union and the railroad. At present the railroad is moving it's trains by telephonic orders and com munication from the Western Union gang is maintained with the local of flee through the medium of a tele- phone employing the telegraph wires.
 Another important improvement to be installed in the near future and which will probably be undertaken at the time the work of remodeling the interior of the offices is begun is that of an up-to-date American district telegraph messenger call-boX system. These boxes will be placed in all the business houses without charge and are for the convenience of the pa irons of the Western Union. By means of these boxes it will be possible for the business man to simply turn a knob and a messenger will promptly be on the spot. Each business house is given a number and this number will De registered III the HidiH oiIiCe, lHcic- by determining the location of the house from which the call is sent in. On a small scale this system was installed some years ago. but for various reasons, principally because It failed to work so frequently, 1t was abandoned With the improved ser vice promised the system to be in- stalled is bound to prove very valu- able.
 Lending true local color to the mes sages sent out or received, the West ern Union all over the United States has furnished sending and receiving message blanks bearing a pretty bor- der of mistletoe in green and red. Surmounting this border appears the words Holiday Greetings" When a message is written on such blank. it is written an similar blank at the receiving station and conveys to the receiver pleasant felicitations whether these appear in the message or not. -O--