The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1910-09-24

OF the phone operating, tells the hello
girl that number" is wanted. She
says number and rings the party
wanted. A supervisory lamp on the key
board then comes into play, remaining
until the party called has taken down
his receiver. This tells the operator
when the conversation began and there
is no interference, thus doing away
with the familiar but often tiresome.
did you get them?" When. either
party hangs up the receiver, two super
visory lamps come into service. which
indicates to the operator that the con-
versation has ceased. and she will dis
connect. Should one supervisory lamp
remain dark. she will 60 in again on
the line and say number.
When a party has to leave the tele-
phone to look up some matter for the
person al the other end, the re ceiver
should always be left off the hook.
The operators have neat rest room
off the exchange with lavatory adjoin-
ing. where they will retire for IS
minute interval once during the FORE
noon and the same in the afternoon.
The work will be so arranged that tn er e
will be three operators at the board at
all times during the day.
The power room of the exchange is a
very interesting place. Here the four
big lead cables containing 200 pairs Of
wires, 1 900 in number, enter the build
ing. 1t is here that the wire connecting
with any subscriber is automatically
broken in the event of lightning bolt
hitting it during a storm, thus saving
the individual instrument and conse-
quent damage in the residence or office
and protecting the remainder of the sys-
tenn. The wire, man can locate and
weld the wire in minutes time.
A testing board in this room also en-
ables the wire man to locate any damage
to long distance copper line. If the
break occurs two miles west of Medora,
he can correctly calculate the distance
and send man from the nearest point
to repair the same.
In the well lighted basement, is the
heating plant, store room, work shop,
specially prepared room for the % cells,
luen's lavatory, etc.
The MANAGEMENT invites all patrons
and parties interested to call at the new
exchange building any time after the
opening day and see how a modern ex-
change board is handled. it will no,
only be especially interesting. particu-
! larly to ladies, but very instructive 1t
will enable the people to get better SER
vice, so do not fail to let the manage.
ment have your presence at an early
date
The patrons of the Dickinson exchange
are fortunate in having people in charge
who are thoroughly competent. The
manager, chief operator and wire CHIEF
are persons who have had the most care.
full training in telephone work. and nov
that they. have reconstructed system
and the very latest exchange equipment
they will show their subscribers wha,
good service is. It will take few day.
to get the subscribers used to the auto
matte call instruments, but if instruc
tions are followed everything will bt
satisfactory when once learned.
1t may be of interest to readers t,
know that the telephone wires strung in
lead cables are first covered with {
specially prepared tissue paper. Th.
business telephone lines in the blocks
along Willard street are carried in tn,
200-pair cable running through the alley
direct to the exchange building. Tn.
eastern portion of the residence distric
north comes down the avenues and enter,
d cable Of same size parallel with tn,
business district trunk line. As th'
lines get further out from the exchang,
the cables drop down in size until on,
sees 50, Is and IS pair lines. "A so
pair cable brings the business from th,
south side up Third Ave. W., what is Il
be the subway avenue when the railwa!
gets around to make their big improve
ment agreed upon.
With the cable system there will b,
none of the annoyance Of crossed wire
during storms and windy days as expert
enced in the past.
PEOPLE EMPLOYED !.
There will be nine people resularl,
employed at the exchange a. follows:
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