The Bismarck tribune., 1922-05-17
BOISE ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF.
CRIERS' CLUB
New Officers of Organization
Named at Meeting Held at
Phone Company Plant
INSPECT PHONE PLANT
Town Criers Learn Something
OF Magnitude of the Tele-
phone Business I
INSPECT PHONE PLANT

The Town Criers club held it's regu
lar meeting at the plant Of the Nortf
Dakota Independent Telephone Com
pany last night, inspected the plant
and held business session at which
officers for the ensuing year were
elected. New officers of the club were
chosen as follows:
President-Spencer Boise.
president William Neal.
Treasurer Bolster.
Secretary-George Remission.
Member-at-larqe Board of Govern.
ors-Clyde Bonham.
Two new Criers were received into
membership. They are R. P. Logan
and John Hoffman.
Members of the club learned some.
thing about the magnitude of the tele-
phone business, the progress being
made in this field through new in.
ventions, and the troubles,,of the
telephone girl. Under the guidance
of L. S. Crasswell, district manager;
J. L. Vachon, local manager; B. NJ
Dunn wire chief, and Gertrude Ring
helm, chief operator, the member OF
the club inspected all parts Of the
plant.
Much interest was expressed in the
repeater apparatus, in which use OF
the principle which has made wire
less telephony possible is applied to
the telephone. Through this appara-
tus calls of great distance, such as
trans-continental calls, are made pos
sible. Without them the voice would
not carry over the wires in sufficient
volume to be heard across the conti-
nent. Every Is to 200 miles. the sound
waves enter the repeater" station,
where the sound waves which have
decreased in intensity are "stepped
up" to the same volume as at the
sending station. The result is that the
voice is heard as loud at the end of
the line as few miles away from the
point at which the person is talking.
$4,000 Calls a Day H..
The Criers learned that there are
2237 telephones handled by the local
company, that 36 employees are busi-
ly engaged in maintaining the local
and long distance system, that .13 1000
local telephone calls are handled daily
and that 1,100 toll calls are put
through in one day.
The busiest period for the tele-
phone operator, they learned, is be-
tween 9 and 10 in the morning when
housewives are getting in their morn
ing calls, and the next busiest period
is between z and 8 in the evening
when appointments are being made.
The busiest period of long-distance
transmission, however, is between l
and 2 in the afternoon, accounted for
in part by the transmission of grain
report at that time. The Criers were
amazed to learn that one experienced
operator will handle during the busy
period Of the day 300 telephone calls
an hour, or five minute, without
difficulty. ..S.,
y Mackintosh's Visit
During the meeting there was dis
cussion of the forthcoming visit Of
President Macintosh, Of the Associ-
ated Advertising Clubs Of the World,
to Bismarck Thursday night, May 18,
to make an address. His topic will
be "More Retail Sales" 1t was en-
phasized that every business man is
invited to be present and is urged to
have all Of his employees present 10
hear Mr.. Macintosh, who is complet-
ing tour of the United States dur
ing which he has had, perhaps, better
opportunity than any other man to
study business. conditions.