The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-03-24
On SWitChbOardS Of Mt. Yer
non Company
To Increase The Efficiency
Of The Service

Telephone company will be prepared
to give the most advanced telephone
service to its subscribers, as this
week has witnessed a start made in
the installation of number of auto
matte switchboard devices-the last |
word in telephony-which will bring |
about much better and much speedier |
service for the subscriber.
The improvements under way will |
require an expenditure of $4,000 with |
no possible return in money to the |
company, save in expedited service |
and increased efficiency. The devices
will necessitate the complete recon
struction of the $4,000 switchboard
of the company, and the entire re-
building inside of the same.
The contract for the improvements
was awarded the Garford Electric Co.
of Elyria, o., and Installing Chief
Hanchett, together with Bert Alls-
paugh, who has been with the Gar
ford people for year, will supervise
the work. It will consume all of two
months to put the new devices into
operation.
The principal feature of the new
service is the installation of what Is
known as an automatic ringer. At
present, when subscriber lifts the
receiver from the hook, the operator
must make two motions for connec-
| tion. The first of these is the inser-
| tion of the plug in the switchboard,
and the second the pushing of a but
ton. When the automatic ringer is in
stalled, but one motion, the former,
will be necessary, thus providing
speedier connection.
The most interesting thing about
the automatic ringer, however, is the
fact that after the plug has been in
serted into the switchboard, the tele-
| phone of the party wanted will keep
| ringing once every eight seconds un-
til the party has answered. These
rings can be heard as gentle buzzes
by the person making the call.
Again, this automatic ringing will
not cease until either the person call
ed answers the telephone, or the per-
son calling hangs up the receiver. In
case of the latter, there is an immedi-
ate and automatic disconnection with
out the operators removing the plug.
Under the present service, it is fre-
quently the case after calling a par
ty, that one must wait for some time
until the the operator has pulled the
cord. In cases of Importance, this
is frequently aggravating, particularly
If the force of operators is crippled.
When these new features are install
ed, such will never be the case. A re
call can be made instantaneously af
ter the receiver Is returned to the
hook without even the slightest de
lay. This feature will mean much tc
the subscriber.
Another automatic feature that is
being installed which the subscriber
: will not appreciate as much as the
telephone company is a device where
by all line calls are registered. Unde
. the present system, the operator mus
be relied upon to punch a counter. /
she is particularly busy, this task i
g frequently forgotten. Likewise,
sometimes happens that the counte
is pushed by accident too many time;
I With the new device, the compan
= will be enabled to keep thorough ia
s on all calls.
y Manager e. o. Arnold of the M
is Vernon Telephone company asks tha
subscribers take into considerable
the next two months what is bein
" done on the switchboard, and If the
0. have trouble at times in getting Gel
tral, to make allowances for this wor
which must, perforce, be done whi
w the switchboard is in constant oper
er tion.
Manager Arnold states that no te
ephone or line will be affected for an
.. length of time, as the work is beir
I, done in different parts of the switc
board. Manager Arnold assures su
i scribers a fitting reward for their D
tience when the installation is col
8. pleted and the new devices put in
ok use.
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