Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-01

But the speed of automatic service
becomes most noticeable in. handling
a number of successive calls. To do
this on the manual it is necessary to
jiggle the hook to attract the on
orators attention after each call, and
frequently considerable delays occur
in this way. With the automatic, how
ever, it is only necessary to hang the
receiver up, and take it right off again
! 0ess than second in time) to clear
the line and start making a second
call.
'As 10 the convenience Of automa-
/ tic service, careful canvasses of tens
of thousands of telephone subscribers
having both automatic and manual
service show that 80 per cent. of the
people prefer the dial to the operator,
because they find it easier to take
the receiver off the hook, turn the
dial, and talk, than to wait for an
operator to get the desired number
Absolute Secrecy
Another advantage of automatic
service, on individual lines, is its alb
solute secrecy. There is no operator
between the two speakers. Nothing
but a machine. which cannot hear.
nor remember nor speak. But most
fundamental OF all is the fact that the
automatic telephone is not freak,
or toy, or a novelty. 1t is now
serving hundreds of thousands Of sub
scribers Tin many cities no other SER
vice is available), and it is complete
ly meeting all the requirements of
modern telephone service. Every
possible need has been met and many
features Of telephone service, hither-
TO unknown, have been developed by
the automatic. In other words, the
automatic does all that the manual
can, much that the manual cannot,
and most things better.
In Wide Use
Automatic equipment has spread
until ir is now giving service in some
one hundred cities and towns located
not only in the United States but also
in Great Britain, France, Germany.
Austrla, Italy, Canada, India, Cuba,
Argen.ne and Australia. Among these
cities may be mentioned Allentown,
HazleI"n Rochester, Beaver Falls
ana W 1ington, Pa; Columbus, Day.
ton, Hngstown, GAINESVILLE, Newark,
Bucyrus Alliance, Van Vert, Ohio:
South Send. Ind; Lansing, Grand
kapids MuSkegon, Michigan: Lincoln,
NebrasNa Aberdeen, Mitchell, Water
town, huron, South Dakota; Los An
geles, California; Sioux City. Iowa;
''''' JsiNhSOHN me- flOIlud.
Havana, Santiago. Cienfuegos, Matan-
zas, Cuba; Cordoba, La Plata and Ro-
sario, Argentine; Honolulu, Hawaii:
Calgary Edmonton, Medicine Hat.
Prince Albert, Canada; Simla (the
summer capitaD India; Nice, France;
Rome Italy; Posen and Munich Ger
many; Cracow, Austria; Leeds, Ports
mouth, England: Paisley, Scotland;
sydney Perth and Melbourne, Aus
tralia.
"The automatic equipment has been
very carefully Investigated by the
government officials of Germany,
France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria,
canada and Australia, and in every
case was endorsed unqualifiedly. In
fact In several instances official state
ments have been made that all new
telephone installations shall be auto
matte looking toward the final elimi-
nation Of the manual system. while in
every case at least. semiohicial state
ments to this effect have been is
sued.
I'm addition, the United States gov
ernment officials have carefully in
Vestlgated the automatic telephone, and
have adopted it for service in numer-
GUS post Offices, arsenals forts. navy
yards. etc, the latest such order be-
ing Tor the Federal Reserve Bank at
Jew York City.