The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-01-29
new TELEPHONES
FOR KENOSHA NOW
New Switch Board Arrives
and Worknen Busy Put
ting in Phones in Three
Hundred Stations.

Three hundred Kenosha people, who
have had applications on file with the
Wisconsin Telephone Company, are go-
ing to have their telephones Now.
They are being put in at rate Of
from fifteen to twenty-five day and
There is a new addition to the switch
board ready to take care Of them for
some time to come This new board
will take care Of FIVE hundred tele-
phones and it is expected now that
the telephone company will be able
to furnish additions to the switch
board as RAPIDLY as the people of the
city want telephones.
While the United States was busy
lighting the war the telephone com-
panies got short on equipment. It is
going to take them some time to catch
up, but on account Of the rapid growth
of Kenosha it has been shown a little
favor in getting new equipment.
my to Finish in Fifteen Days.
We have the new section Of the
board in, said Manager Borden today
and we are hurrying right along with
the installation of the telephones. A
lot Of people have been waiting for
them and we have something like three
hundred on the waiting list The men
are putting them in at rate Of about
twenty-five a day, and we hope to get
the last one Of the applications filled
by the middle of February at the lat
est. We are going to have equipment
to take care of a little more growth and
we have the assurance that the COM
pany will keep the equipment coming
fast enough to keep pace with the
growth of the city. At that there is
not going to be any great surplus Of
numbers to be given out. With the
installation of these three hundred we
will have total of ffty-fve hundred
telephone stations in Kenosha.''
Automatics in the Ofing.
Commercial Manager Geo. G. French
Of Milwaukee, was in Kenosha in con-
ference with the local management of
are trying to give Kenosha the best
possible service,,e said French. "Of
course we are troubled with the flu and
the prevailing ailment Of finding it hard
to get anything and everything we want
but we are doing the best we can to
meet all the calls upon lis. The local
office now has a supply of numbers
and equipment to handle them and with
this we are going to be able to take
care of the good Kenosha people who
have been waiting with more or less
patience for US to get this equipment
Mr.. French declared that automatic
service for Kenosha and other Wiscon-
sin points was still some distance in
the offing. It can only go in as the
old service goes out, said Mr.. French.
The installation of the automatic must
necessarily come as the need of new
equipment is shown and we are follow
ing up this need wherever passible. It
may be twenty years before the automa-
tic service comes to stay in this section
Milwaukee Has Troubles Too.
Mr.. French confded that Kenosha
was not the only place where lack of
equipment interferes with giving the
people what they demand in the way
of telephone service. He admitted that
even in Milwaukee where the company
built model building which was sup
posed to be the last word in equipment
as well as to looking into the future
there was demand for telephones
which could not be supplied. cit is
simply impossible to get the equip
ment, declared Mr. French, and the
people must just be patient until we can
get it. Just the minute this equipment
is sold to US by the plants which make
it we are going to be ready to install it
for Milwaukee, Kenosha and all Of the
other places where our lines reach. y