Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
.D|SPATCHERS INOvE OFFICE
 BACK AGAIN
Quarters of Photographers Will Be Transferred from Freight Building Back to Station; Sim plex Phone System Installed.

plex Phone System Installed.
 (Fron Wednesdays Gai1y)
 Two years ago the dispatchers' of- fees at the Santa Fe railroad here were moved from the second floor of the depot building to the second floor of the freight building at the end of the depot runway. Yesterday men were at work putting the second floor of the depot into shape to move them back again.
 Two Years Changes
 Two years ago the second floor of the depot building was crowded with clerks and stenographcrs, draughts- men and engineers inhabited the of fices in the left wing, and the super intendent and his assistants were To- cated in the right wing formerly oc- cupied by the dispatchers. Mean- while, the old division was enlarged to include four districts of which the local lines form one, and the center of administration shifted with the re- moval of division headquarters from Prescott to Winslow. The office force was cut down and trainmasters invested with supervision of the four districts.
 Recently, the position of train master in charge of district four, the local lines, was abolished, and A. F. Hunt arrived to take charge hete under the title of assistant superin- tendent of the division But the up stairs offices are no longer thronged with clerical help A chief clerk and roadmaster's clerk have the large main room all to themselves.
 Dispatchefs' Offices
 It is different with the dispatchers offices. Chief Electrician Eli Stauf- fer and electrical crews had cleared the superintendent and the chief clerk out of the way, rolled up their cleeves, pushed the furniture into the other side of the building, and begun to tap walls, measure distances and bore holes for the new modern telc- phone and telegraph equipment which will be installed between now and the middle of December.
 The assistant superintendent of flee will henceforth be occupied by the chief dispatcher, the chief clerks office by the other dispatchers, and the old store room across the hall by the telegraph office. New modern equipment will be installed ill all three rooms. The telegraph office will have a long counter from the doorway, at which the public can transact business after the main Western Union office has closed.
 New quad cables will be run out Of the new offices north and south, and the Western Union line will be brought ill on loop. While the local dispatching will operate on cur rent from the Arizona Power com pany, in case of all emergency or breakdown it will be able to operate on juice from the Phoenix and main line ends. Telegraph switchboard and other equipment will be located on the track side of the new tele- graph office and telegraph equipment on the town side Stauffer expects that the new offices will be ready for use by the middle of December.
 Telephone Dispatching
 The new telephone line under in stallation for some weeks past is now complete between Ash Fork and Phoenix. This system described in the Journal Miner recently, is an ad- vancement over key dispatching in the matter of timc-saving and of con- meeting the dispatcher's office with sidings hitherto blind" It is known in telcgraphcr's parlancc as the Sim plcx system, in which telephoning and tclcgraphing are done over a single wire. This system is in usc ill the main office of the Western Union i'll Los Angeles
 Fifteen telephones have been in stalled between Ash Fork and Phoe- nix at stations, and telephones have been cut i'll at IS blind sidings be- tween the two ends of the line. Thus, the local dispatchers' office is now i'll direct communication with B tcle- phones, where before only Is keys could be talked with
 Telephones (not the Simplex sys- tenn arc being installed on the P. X E. Junction line to Humboldt, Mayer and Crown King. Three phones (Simplcx) have been put in on the Clarkdale fine, at Bear, Pcrkinsville and Sycamore, and the Simplex is being installed over tic A. & C. line to Parker, where new poles, tcle