The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-29
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 TELEPHONES .|S ANNOUNCED
Program Calls for 1000 Ad- ditionaI Telephones at an Expenditure of S27,000. Col. Bare Gives Outline
 of Improvement


 Telephone installations will soon be completed in the Mountain Ter race and Forest Park section, the most congested area in Birmingham without connections, according to Col. W. k. Bare, state manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company, who outlined a program of expansion that calls for approximately 1000 additional telephones and an expenditure of $27, 300.
 Expansion program includes an aerial plant for Boyles, Tarrant City and Inglenook, one of the most pressing needs now experienced, and also aerial plant additions in the Shadyside section. A new cable to Irondale and additional cable facil- ities in the southwest section of Birmingham and in Avondale, the Rising section, western section of West End, Ensley Highlands and on Cornelia avenue, Graymont sec ton and Miner Heights are also in- cluded
 Other features of the program are: Underground terminals at First ave- nue and Forty-first street; aerial cahla ;n can+raI Doriy eac+;op. ,ndar ground conduit in Ensley area; re- placing of -cabie- at Powderlys addis tional trunking cables to all ex- changes; underground cable in the Hemlock area; reconstruction south of the Country club; additional sub scribers' section in Hemlock ex- change; additional subscribers equipment in West End office. and additional central office equipment in Woodlawn office.
 Promised Relief
 Announcement of the expansive program came after a statement by N. L, Harrison, city commissioner of public utilities that. numerous resi- dents were complaining of inability to get telephone connections. and that negotiations between the com pany and the Alabama public serv- ice commission promised relief. Com mi ssioner Harrison said he had re- ceived a letter from A. G. Patterson, president of the public service com mission, in which the spirit Of CO., operation shown by the telephone company was commended, and in which 1t was indicated that relief in the Mountain Terrace and Forest Park area would be forthcoming within a few weeks.
 Relief in other sections will be ac- complished immediately also, 1t was said Additions in the Mountain Ter race and Forest Park area will cost approximately $26.300, Colonel Bare said, and are to be completed not later than March l.
 Approximately 73,000,O00 feet of conductor wire has been assigned to the Alabama division for 1923, Colonel Bare said. practically all of which will be used for new installations. It could not be estimated how much of this would be used in Birmingha m he said, but the program calls for approximately 1000 phones to be add ed to the 21,955 shown in his last report for 1922. and an expenditure of $217, 800.
 Installations Completed
 Large cable installations have re- gently been completed, Colonel Bare said which relieved a part of the West End area, North Birmingham, Southside and several of the smaller sections throughout, Birmingham
 This company Is making every possible effort to relieve all the con gested areas in Birmingham" said Colonel Bare. At the same time we are trying to provide for future re- quirements, 50 that we can keep abreast of the citys growing needs. It must be borne in mind that a tele- phone plant is never a completed unit. A railroad, factory and most commercial enterprises may reach a certain stage of completion. This is not true of telephone plant.
 "The fact that individual facilities must be carried to each user or group of users precludes such a com pletion. As long as men marry, build homes. go into business and have children, the plant can never be a finished product. We are doing all we can to keep up With the constant growth along all lines in Brming- ham,"