The Nome nugget., 1923-07-14
CITY TELEGRAPH OFFICE ABOLISHED FOR MORE
 EFFICIENT SERVICE

Mobilization and Radio Officer. w. A.
 NJ. c. T. S.. the City Telegraph office
 will be abolished after Sunday July
 18th. This is being done on ac-
 count of the impossibility to increase the personnel of the station here at
 Nome and the desire of telegraph authorities to rase the efficiency and
 better the service to the public
 The following changes will be made
 to take effect Sunday, which will I no doubt better the service to the
 general public having cause to use the radio service with any regular
 ity.
 A messenger will be added to the stations personnal who will make regular trips three times per day to the following places. leaving the Radio station the messenger will call at the Hammon Company offices. 1 thence to the M. & M. Bank thence to Lomen's Drug Store thence the | Nugget once. back to the court house, from there to the Golden Gate hotel and then return to the Station. The first trip will start at II A. NJ. the second at 2 P. NJ. the third at P. M. The above places | will be called at during the week days only; on Sundays the messen- ger will call at Lomen's Drug store and the Golden Gate Hotel only, this | is on account of the other places not being open on Sundays. The trips | mentioned already will he made in addition to the delivering of mes sages during the day to people re- ceiving them. Messages will be de- | livered immediately when received. A telephone has been installed at
 the Radio Station and citizens of Nome who are not in the habit of
 using the service every day will be allowed to call the station and have at the address the person calling gives.
 It wuold be advisable for firms l and business houses handling any volume of business with the Radio Station to see Sergeant Anderson who is in charge of the station and
 make arrangements as to the ac- count and payment of messages. The laws of the United States gov ernment does not permit the run of open accounts unless arranged thru the Treasury Department. Captain Burkhead feels confident that a satisfactory solution to this part of the project will be easily reached by Sergeant Anderson and the parties doing business with him.
 Capt. Burkhead feels that Nome will receive much better service un- der the arrangements mentioned tran have been heretofore received and states: We want the people of Nome to feel that we are a part of Nome, and a part of the business life of this locality, our greatest de sire is to give better service and be of service to the people of Nome and vicinity. I personally appreciate the hearty cooperation of the business men and others of Nome in helping work out and find a solution to our broubles, heretofore experienced. It is all typical of the bigness of the people of Nome. We want to know their needs and we are at all times open to any reasonable suggestions made us by the public in general or by individuals. And we hope the citizens will take the pride in the
 service as do the officials in the War Department who have been delegated this important work of furnishing communications to Alas ka"
 The above changes in the radio station are the results of careful study of the needed requirements of telegraphic service to Nome by Capt. Burkhead who came to Nome for the one purpose of giving better ser wee to the people of Nome and vicin- ity. The decision to make the changes mentioned was not arrived at on the spur of the moment, but
 were gone over carefully and with due consideration to any obstacles
 that might arse to lower the effic-
 iency of the plan decided upon.
 In addition to the above changes
 a staked trail will. be kept open dur
 ing the winter from the radio sta- l ton across the tundra so that the
 messenger can be available for ser
 vice at all times. The trail will be l ..,Al 1.~~ rf.>ou In Nfsr,.