Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
HOME TELEPHONE
COMPANY A LEADER
Efficient Service Greatest Object
of the Big Public Cor
poration
CvER 100000 PHONES IN USE
Management InstaIIs the Finest
Automatic System in Coun-
try-Story of Progress
OVER 100000 PHONES IN USE

Los Angeles is soaring ahead. The
daily statements of bank clearings,
the weekly statements as to building
permits issued. the annual statements
oil our big business corporations as well
as the United States census make
every heart glad that pulses with en-
thusiasm for Los AngeleS.
Commensurate with the rapid growth
of the city has been the growth of its
telephone system. This is aptly Illus
trated by the steady rapid pace which
the Home Telephone company mas dis
played in the stride which Los An
geles is making toward its goal-the
million population mark.
Newcomers of all classes are con-
tinually arriving at our gates. They
come filed with enthusiasm-they are
met with enthusiasm-thcy find enthu-
siasm all about them-and find plenty
of reason for it. These great crowds
composed mostly Of homeseekers en-
tering the city each day must be met
by the most efficient conveniences, by
provision for homes well equipped,
we'll planned and well systematized to
meet the rush onward and forward, i'll
which this added population is contin-
ually Joining our own Inhabitants.
This realization has ofttimes taxed
the officials of the Home Telephone
company to the very utmost in thelr
efforts to keep pace with the needed
improvements. The company is finan-
cially strong owing to the great con-
fdence felt for it on behalf of those
who know it best. The middle class
as well as financiers and investors of
the city and also the great mass of
wage earners are filed with pride and
with confidence in this truly HOME
company, organized, capitalized and
financed as it is, by local people.
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for improvements it has never been
found wanting.
EFFICIENT SERVICE FEATURE
Efficient service has always been the
one subject of greatest consideration
by the officers of the company, VINO
have continually and eagerly looked
for new devices and new ideas where
with to be continually improving the
service.
The Home Telephone company was
established in Los Angeles in 1902 and
was then known as the Independent
Telephone and Telegraph company.
They started with 10000 line manual
switchboard The enormous growth of
the requirements of Los Angeles was
far beyonl the horizon Of their expec-
tation or even Imagination; but within
a comparatively short time the ortgi-
nal equipment proved inadequate. y
very thorough investigation and series
of experiments followed and the COM
pany decided to install the automatic
system which they are at present us
ing. Neither the officers or the sub
scribers have at any time had any rea-
son to regret the change. Today the
automatic Homephone plant in Los
Angeles is looked upon by authorities
on telephone subjects throughout the
United States as a model plant
In business centers removed thous-
ands of miles from Los Angeles this
city is gaining a great deal of the most
valuable kind of advertising through
the fact of its being spoken of and
written about as telephone center to
be copied and followed.
For quite long time n dual system
of operation was kept up whereby a
great many automatic instruments
were used and on the other hand a
great many connections led to the
manual switchboards, so requiring GUS
toners to call central and obtain their
number through that medium. 1t is