Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-12
PHONE USERS
MEET CENTRAL
AND GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE
Big TASK WHICH YOUNG LAD
les AT EXCHANGE HAVE TO PER
FORM
Bi- :. w 7. < T. CON-
PANN TO PATRONS GREAT SCC-
SS-PROAfINENT OFFICIALS
FROM OTHER POINTS PRESENT.


Nearly five hundred citizens of Browns
Vile Yesterday afternoon and last night
took advantage of the Southwestern Tel
egraph - Telephone COmpany's invita-.
tion To visit their new exchange. Officers
Of the company were in attendance from
Dallas. San Antonio and Corpus Christi
and tncy and Manager Gerald Johnson
showed the visitors through the plant,
explaining the various features that have
10 do with telephone operation.
Ihc visitors exhibited great interest
IN th" .ntrlca,c machinery and equipment
and asked many intelligent questions
that we're answered freely and frankly
~ those who were acquainted with the
details. Entering the exchange the visit
0rs were first taken TO the power aud
equipment room where they were shown
.he switchboard and motor apparatus.
They saw and were told the "whyfore of
aIi the intricate equipment, including
,hc action of the numerous wires enter
ing ami leaving the exchange and the
,.cSk \ here the troubles on the wires are
located and rectified. The battery room
NaS also one Of the attractions.
IIut the highest point of interest shown
IN The visitors manifested itself i'll the
operating room where the young ladies
Lit hour after hour day and night. tax
ing calls, plugging in and plugging ouf,
.oftly asking Number? often re-
yiying Lines busy" This is whore the
l; >cl of the telephone has most to do
Ni.h. and NATURAL this point was OF
'uLSt interest To him.
Here. TOO. many questions were asked,
and the visitors watched closely the
working Of the little lights that flash
when subscriber calls. or that 90 out
when the connection il made and the call
finished One woman remarked. Il have
never become ut all angered with cen
tral. and since | have stood here and
watched these young ladies work | am
sure | never shall. | can not under
stand how they can sit here all day and
have someone talking into their ears all
day long. Why, if | had to do that 1
would 90 crazy" Another said she would
never again Scold central if she happen
ed to be DELAYED in answering, since she
now understood the method and detail
that is necessary.
Those are the results the telephone
seeks to obtain when it gives
the receptions mt the new exchanges.
Their purpose is to acquaint the user
of the telephone with the infinite detail
that is necessary to making telephone
call, and to secure the cooperation OF
subscribers in order that service may
be improved and made more convenient
and satisfactory as time goes Oh.
A physician made the following state
mcnt regarding the new exchange:
I've been through the telephone ex-
changes ut Nashville, ut New Orleans,
and other large cities, but / have never
vet seen as nice an exchange or better
plant than this one is. though the others
are much larger This man went
through in the afternoon, and was SO
interested that he brought his wife last
night and showed her through
After the guests had passed through
the exchange they were served delicious
punch by Misses Beatrice Kinloch and
Sara Hobbs.
Manager Gerald Johnson extends
thanks to friends of the company who
presented many bouquets of cut flowers,
which were used in decorating the ex-
change.
The officials of the telephone company
who were present were p. X. Baker OF
Dallas. general commercial superintend-
ent: w. w. Vaughan of San Antonio, di-
vision commercial superintendent; III. 4.
King of Corpus Christi, district COM
mercial manager; ID. NJ. Parkinson OF
San Antonio. division traffic manager;
and Mr.. Thurbcr of Corpus Christi,
plant man. All left this morning for
Mercedes and this afternoon will return
to their headquarters