The Pulaskian., 1915-01-29
ALL PHONES WEST
 ID CENTER HERE
NEW WOoDLAWN STATION IN PU- LASki HEIGHTS WILL SERVE
 THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS.
WORK FOR SIXTEEN GIRLS
Operators Comfortably Provided for in Bungalow Exchanee-switch- board and Equipment Will Cost
 60,ooo--Opens June 1.

That handsome new bungalow the builders have just completed opposite Oak street station, in the heart of Pulaski Heights, is the new Wood lawn exchange of the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company, in which is now being installed an elaborate switchboard to be ready for operation by June 1st.
 This is Little Rocks first branch telephone station and it's establishment requires a encouragement of the en- tire telephone book. All city phone numbers will have affixed the word Main" and all numbers of phones operated from the new sub-station will be coupled with the word Wood lawn
 The selection of a name for this exchange was left to the Pulaski Heights City Council. The Telephone Company only specified that word of two sylables be chosen. Among the names proposed were Ozark, Hillcrest, Prospect and Pineland, but Woodlawn was preferred not only because it Is easy of enunciation but because 1t is the name of one of the streets on which is located the exchange proper ty.
 Nearly Thousand Subscribers.
 Woodlawn exchange will open with $50 subscribers, it's line serving all of that territory west of the Iron Noun tain tracks, from the river to the pen itentiary. The building and is equip ment will cost when completed about $60,000. The switchboard and central office apparatus is of the Western Electric Manufacture and of the latest type
 Sixteen young lady operators will be employed at the Woodlawn ex- change and for their comfort lunch and rest rooms have been provided Indeed the interior of the bungalow is as homelike and inviting as the out side 1t is divided into one long room, for the switchboard, and three small rooms for the use of the employees. The building is simply work place All business between the public and t'O Scihpohy VIII D0 u tltuSdCLtu dl lI10 companys headquarters, Seventh and Louisiana streets, Little Rock, as in the past
 The building of this exchange is due to the rapid growth of the company's business in Pulaski Heights and the western part of Little Rock. At pres ent all calls from this district are handled through the main office.
 The volume of traffic increased so rapidly that it became necessary to provide the sub-station. This was es- tablished in Pulaski Heights because of it's easy access and central location. Woodlawn is the telephone center for an area as large geographically as the City of Little Rock, east of the rail- road.
 That the telephone people have an eye upon the future is indicated by the fact that they have reserved a space on their Woodlawn avenue lot for larger exchange building at some later time and have so constructed their present building that it easily can be converted into a managers residence.
 One of the Pulaski Heights citi- zens, s. c. Poage, is division plant su- perintendent of the company and has had much to do with the planning and construction of this model exchange and it's equipment.
 Before the exchange is placed in operation new issue of the telephone dirctory will be published, showing all telephone numbers under the new arrangement