Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-16
Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company Will
 Furnish Service.
WAS BEGUN MONDAY
Every Phone Subscriber In Pine Bluff Will Get Weather, River and other
 Reports Free of Charge.

Under an agreement entered into between the United States Weather Bureau and the management of the Southwestern Telegraph and Tele- phone Company effective Monday, not less than 75 per cent of the 100000 people in the State of Arkansas will be able to get the weather forecast, flood warnings, cold wave warnings and other information sent out by the United States Government daily, with no expense to the people.
 The operation of the new plan for the dissemination of this information which is of material importance to the people in many lines of industry and will be maintained every work ing day in the year.
 The system which is being used is the sending of the information from the central Arkansas office in Little Rock to number of distributing joints throughout the State from which the information is sent to yet other substations and in this manner to the individual throughout the State of Arkansas.
 Alciatore Explains.
 Section Director H. F. Alciatore in charge of the United States Weather Bureau thus explains the operation of the plan which has been worked out by him in company with Division Traffic Superintendent L. M. Loring and Division Commercial Superinten- dent William c. Maas, of the South western Telegraph and Telephone company:
 The Little Rock office will tele- graph in the forenoon to nine distri- outing points throughout the State the weather forecast for the next day. These points are Pine Bluff, Camden, Helena, Brinkley, Russellville, Fort Smith, Texarkana, Jonesboro and Newport. Received at these points the daily forecast will be transmitted by the telephone central office to a num- Der of other stations, and also to the subscribers of the telephone com- pany in the distributing towns as we'll
 Received at the substations, the forecasts are telephoned to every city subscriber and also to all the farmers or rural lines connected with that telephone exchange.
 At high noon each working day of the year the party line and other ru- ral subscribers of the telephone com pany will hear one long ring of their bells, which will be a signal that the kansas for the coming day is at hand and vii be given out. All desiring the information will go to the telephone, at which time central will say:
 "The following is the weather fore cast for tomorraw, and will then re- peat the forecast received from the distributing point.
 Information of Value.
 In this manner frost warning will be transmitted to northern and northwest Arkansas, while flood warnings will be sent to the planters down the Arkansas and other river valleys of the State. The apple grow CT in North Arkansas may know when to build smudges to prevent freeze of his blooms and the truck grower about the larger cities will know when to protect his tender plants.
 The steamboat men and the ferry men will get the river news, warn ings that floods are on their way, as we'll as the planter who has growing crops and live stock in the river bottoms.
 From the ten distributing points, counting Little Rock, the forecasts will be telephoned to substations by the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company without cost, either to the weather bureau or the telephone subscribers.
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