The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-01-14


England, with the Western Electric
Company there, has just been on a
visit to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J..
T. Hackley, on the Danville pike,
having been on a business trip for
his company back home, in connec-
ton with their New York and Chi
cago houses. Mr.. Hackley has been
with the Western Electric Company
since 1901 being located at their
New York house from August, 1901
until May, 1913 when ne was sent
to their Antwerp, Belgium, at which
their European business conferred.
On August Is, 1914, two weeks af-
ter the big war began, he went to
the London house of his company,
where their European business has
been handled since the war began.
Mr.. Hackley is one of the leading
young electrical engineers and scien-
tific experts of the big company he
represents. In order to meet all
issues in his busienss, he has found
it necessary to acquire some knowl-
edge of the foreign languages and
now speaks French fuently, and can
converse in German and Russian.
While Mr.. Hackley was at Ant
werp, he made it a practice to as
sociate with representative CONT
mental people, who came there in
great numbers from the various Eu-
ropean countries, and has acquired a
good knowledge of their manners
and customs. His business has TAX
en- him to all parts of the United
States and to Europe. During the
past six years he has travelled by rail
and steamer in connection with his
business, over $4,000 miles, and his
return trip to London on January
18th will be his third business trip
abroad.
On his travels, Mr.. Hackley US
ually carries a camera and has tax
en- over 1000 photographs. He has
spent vacation trips in Yellowstone
Park, Grand Canyon, and the Yose-
mite Valley and has made scientific
study of the wonders of these unique
regions. He has hundreds of color
ed lantern slides made from his
photographs and occasionally treats
his friends and the public to an il
Illustrated lecture on these wonder
lands and other places which he has
visited.
Mr.. Hackley has the reputation
among his business associates for
old-fashioned honesty, so that when
he says thing is so, it can be re-
lied on, since his decisions are al
ways based on the bare facts as he
sees them through his own mind.
1t has been his gaod fortune to be
kept in the forefront of the firing
line in various enterprises which
the Western Electric Company has
undertaken, requiring push and
"stick-to-it-iveness" in the face of
difficulties. The specific work on
which Mr.. Hackley is engaged at this
time is the development and manu-
| facture of full-automatic and semi
automatic telephone systems in Eu-
rope. His present visit to America
is in connection with this. In the
full-automatic telephone systems, no
telephone operators are required, all
of the work of securing a telephone
connection being done by the SUBJ
scriber and the electrically operated
machinery at the telephone ex.
change. The connection can be Sc.
cured as quickly as with the system
employing operators. A compare
lively small number of these
machines in a telephone exchange
of 10000 subscribers, can make
over 100000 telephone connections
in single day, absolutely unaided
by operators.
In case of the ser.i automatic tele-
phone systems very much the same
machinery is emplo ged as in the full
automatic system, except that some
operators are employed to do a
part of the work, the remainder
being done by the machines.
Among the recent very remark
able telephone developments by
the Western Electric Company,
there are three things which stand
out as very striking features
first trans continental telephone line
between New York and San Francis
co; second wireless telephoning over
land between Arlington, Va, and
place near San Francisco, a dis
lance of $500 miles; third trans
oceanic wireless telephoning beteen
Arlington, Virginia, and the Eiffel
Tower in Paris, a distance of over
5000 miles.
At recent exhibition at the