The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-31
s. N. E. I. 60. INSTALLED
 IN MOST MODERN PLANT
Transfer From Old Exchange to State
 Street Building Made Yesterday.
WESTPORT

Westport, March 31.-The turning off of one switch and the switching on of one other yesterday evening at 6:30 o'clock was the last link in the vast numbe of electrical changes which completed the transfer of the local telephone exchange from it's old quarters to the new building in State street. For weeks wire workers and electricians have been engaged in the monster work of transferring a te1e- phone system from one switch board to another This done without the slightest interruption in the service.
 The local exchange is now housed in one of the most complete telephone exchanges in this section, embracing every modern devise in telephone con struction.
 With it's installation in their new offices the telephone company has also completed preparations which will bring much better service to it's pat rons. Of great service and benefit is the new system whereby the South -Norwalk exchange will be an adjunct of the local office. Heretofore it has been the custom to secure South Nor walk through the toll service. Now all the local subscriber has to do is to lift the receiver give the central the desired number prefixed with South Norwalk.'' The local subscriber will immediately secure their South Nor Wd1k party W1InOuI unQGTSOlnS In0 necessary delays which came about under the old system.
 Local phones are now as modern as it is possible to make them. An other big change made is the doing away with the battery phone, the old style whereby the subscriber was obliged to first give a few twists of a crank to the side of the phone fol- lowed by the lifting of the receiver. When completed the twist of the same little crank would be courteous to the central informing her that you were through your talk Now all one has to do is to lift the receiver and Cen traI is there with teNumber?"
 It is expected that work will soon be started by the state highway de- partment on the state road from the Fairfield town line to the State street bridge. Contracts for this work were let last summer with the Warren Bros. Co.,, makers of the t'bithu1ithic'' pave mcnt. This is the same pavem ent which the same company laid last summer in Fairfield The town has allowed $7,00O for the work, which is their portion of the full contract, the remainder being paid by the state. Judge Samuel A. Purdy was pleased to receive in his mail on Saturday a communication from Valparaiso, Chili, from Clarence Burr Byxbee, who was formerly the Westport correspondent for The Norwa1k Hour. MT. Byxbee
 gained notoriety last June when he | took as his bride the daughter of a wealthy Chi1ian. In the meanwhile he has been travelling n Europe and South America. He speaks f1uent1y l of the ChiIian climate where he says
 the temperature never falls below 40
 degrees and is very seldom above 75
 degrees. Though far away from the
 scene of many scoops" and beats, 9
 MT. Byxbee states that he still has a | warm spot in his heart for Westport
 and her inhabitants.
 T. The Westport Musical club are to
 hold a recital on Friday, April 2.
 Among the artists to appear will be l Richard Arnold, vioIinist, of the New
 York Philharmonic orchestra and
 Miss Norma Weber, contralto, of 1 Bridgeport. Q
 1 Mrs P. A. Beers has been visiting 1 in Danbury for the week.
 The pastor of the Congregational l church spoke on ''The Value of Suf- fering'' at the morning services yes l terday and in the evening on ttThe
 Place of Education in Christian
 Work
 | Several of the officers of Temple i lodge, F. and A. M, were guests of Union lodge of Danbury at special
 exercises in that city Friday evening. 1 Aspetuck lodge, K. of F., will hold | their regular meeting tom orrow.