The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-26
PHONE GAIN IN
 1910 WAS .856I
New Haven Still Leads All Ex. changes With Total of
 12,73O in Use
YEARS CALLS 119,5O0,00O
Quick Work ill Installing Private Exchange of 70 Phones in
 Duncan Hotel.

New Haven. Jan. 26-A remarkable record of development has been made by the Southern New England Tele- phone Company during the year 1910, which was the S3rd year of telephone service in the State from commercial standpoint.
 During the year 1910 12s24 poles were set. 24.256 -crossarms were plac- ed. 24S75.12 miles of wire strung in the State and PLY duct miles of con duit placed. The wire plant which is the medium over which service is given, including the wire in all kinds of cable. now amounts to 14.726.07 miles.
 During 1910 there was an increase in exchange of 8561 stations in the State of Connecticut. Of this total 3,4o9 were gained in the southern dis trfct, 2.729 in the central. 1.279 in the trict.
 The exchanges showing the largest increases are. in the first class. Hart ford (this figure including Windsor, which was not cut over as separate exchange until 1910) with an actual second division. with a net gain of 4ao: Bristol. in the third class ex- changes. with an increase of 221 sta- tions.
 New Haven is still the largest ex- change in the State, leading is near est competitor, Hartford. by 5s5 tthis figure not including the stations in the Windsor exchange. which if added, would give New Haven a lead of only 326).
 There were approximately 119,500o00 calls handled during the year, an in crease of practically s000,000 calls oyer the corresponding figure in 1909--an in crease of 1a calls for every minute during the year or an additional call every four seconds over the record of 1909. and indicates better than any thing else the tremendous growth of the traffic in Connecticut.
 One of the most striking features of the year 1910 is the fact that there was no serious interruption to Con- necticut service from ice or sleet storms, as was the case on two diff ferent occasions in 1909 The wear of the business rose to meet the emer- gency demands made upon it; the day of the fatal county jail fire in New Haven when the telephone played an all-important part in sun'moning aid of every kind and for which special equipment was installeds with most creditable promptness. In spite of the tremendous increase of traffic on that date not complaint of any character was registered.
 A record in quick installation was made in this city during the year.
 On Tuesday. December 27th, 1a10, notice was received that Duncan Ho- tel. this city, had signed for a private branch exchange of TO stations. New York was immediately called by tele- phone, and the wire kept hot in the effort to get a. proper switchboard, but the best the Western Electric could do. would be to shin a board from Hawthorne. H.. on Jan, z. by express. too late for December busi- ness It was learned that such a board had left New York Tuesday morning by boat for Norwich. The board arrived in Norwich on Thursday morning and that same afternoon it was being tested out in New Haven. On Monday. Jan, ?. the exchange had been installed
 New Haven has now 127SO phones