San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-19
Expect to Serve 100000
Patrons in New York /
by 1880. (
BASED ON CENSUI
Expenditures in Biz Cit
Alone to Be S50,000,-
600 Yearly.
BY j. G. RNYLE.

Copyright BY The San Antonio Ligh
New York, Aug .1S.-The New 70
Telephone company expects to be ser
ing 100000 telephones in this ci
by 1880 and is now prepared to spers
100000 year for the netx fl
years in preparation to do so.
These figures are the results of car
full surveys made by engineers an
statisticians of the company, an
plans for the next ten years have bee
based ON them. With about 1,130,Ot
telephones now in service in Il
greater city the indicated growth Il
next several years is unprecedente
in the telephone business and these Fl;
ures are indicative of the business
corresponding degree in other Amer
can cities.
The telephone company's $3.50, 000
00O investment, according to Viz
president j. s. McCulloh, with spres
generally over the five borroughs Of IL
city to care for u demand for serviC
which the cOmpany's engineers for
cast will reach It's peak in Manhatta
and the Bronx.
Much of the sum will be spent fo
additions to the vast underground syi
tenn of wires and for intricate centr,
office apparatus which is rarely see
and the existence of which is seldot
realized by the public.
To Erect New Buildings
The principal surface evidences G
activity will be found in the erectio
of new central office buildings and
additions to existing structures. Ihes
activities now embrace eighteen majo
building projects requiring expenditur
of $1O,6OO,OOO exclusive of sites.
Sixteen new central offices will b
put in service between now and til
end of 1924. Ten will employ ma
chine switching methods of opera tor
Central office buildings ma;aSA
termed the foundation for expansion
the telephone system" Mr.. McCufi
said, las they house the switchboar
apparatus, the heart of the system
Generally speaking it takes two year
to erect a telephone building as it j
of extra heavy construction and a
uear fire and moisture-proOf a
science can make it. 1t must be alb
solutely seasoned and perfectly dr..
before the delicate central office ap
paratus can be installed"
The current $1O,OOO,00O building
program does not include the new
29-story building in downtown New
York, which, when completed, will b
used both for central offices and fcl
administrative purposes. There will b,
four endorsements carrying it 81 fee
below street level. Excavation aro
foundation work has already begun
but beyond this point further progress;
will depend on building conditions il
this city.
A Gigantic Project.
Seven floors will be devoted to cen
trail office space. Present plans cal
for installation of six local switch
board units and one toll switchboard
or one central office to each flool
which is an acre in extent. All OF thes,
centrals will employ the machine typ,
of switching and each of the six loca
centrals will serve approximately ~,
600 telephines. The ultimate centra
office in this building alone will &C
commodate 10000 telephones or moe
than there are at present in man,
cities of 100000 population.
illustrating the expansion in Other
sections, the Southern Bell Teleph0n,
company has leased before construc
ton the History Hurt building amer
in Atlanta which will be the largest
office building in the southern states
Electrical equipment companies ar,
working at capacity in executing
phone equipment and other orders ant
present bookings will assure equal ac
tivity throughout the year. At The
Hawthorne works of the Westerr
Electric company where much of tn,
telephone equipment of the compa q,
is made, 33,700 men and women or
per cent of the total workers of Chi
cago are employed. About 200 add
tional workers have put on the Haw
thorne pay roll in~the last fortnight.