The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

Denver has more than four
times as many telephones to ev-
cry 100 inhabitants as London,
six times as many rs Vienna, and
nearly five times as many as Paris.
There are % telephones to every
hundred in Denver and there are
only 10 in New York, two in Rome,
and a fraction more than nine in
Berlin.
Only two cities which have a
population between 100000 and
500, 000=Omaha and Minneapolis
have a greater telephone saturation
than Denver and, excepting these,
only one other city in the whole
world has more telephones per 100 of
population, and that is San Francis
co Cal.
Denver passed Los Angeles and
Washington last year in the race for
telephone leadership and Denver tele-
phone officials believe that when the
next tabulation is made public that
city will be still nearer the top.
The Bell System has just made
public its annual edition of "Tele-
phone and Telegraph statistics of
the World" which brings the fig
ures up to January, 1928. Every
comparison that can be made shows
the unquestioned leadership of the
United States because SO per cent of
all the telephones in the world are in
this country.
In proportion to population this
country has ten times as many tele-
phones as the world at large. The
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nine times as much as the average
Englishman, and ten times as much
as the average Frenchman. There
are more telephones in New York
City than in the whole of Great Brit
ain and Northern Ireland; more in
the city of Chicago than in all of
France. In rural telephone devel-
opment, America stands head and
shoulders above the rest of the
This study shows that on January
1, 1928, there were 20, Ais tele-
in use throughout the world,
If which 14,347,595 were in the I'm
ted States. Thus the American peo-
pie, who form but o~ne-sixteenth of
he earth's population, have at their
service nearly two-thirds of all the
telephones in existence. Europe,
With four times as many people as
his country, has only about two
'ifths as many telephones. On the
late to which these figures relate,
were 5,863,684 telephones in
Europe, or but little more than one
quarter of the worlds total. All 9TH
or countries, including the entire
Western Hemisphere outside of the
States, and Asia, Africa and
)ceania as well, had only one-ninth
# the total telephones in operation.
the 1,100,161 telephones added /,
0 the wire systems of the world I
1922, 620,67O represented !
he net growth of the telephone ia ,
ilities of the United States. Z
United States Easily First {
In number of telephones per 100 {
f population, Americas leadership {
yas even more pronounced. There Y
vere on January I, 1928, 1871 tele- t
homes for every 100 people in the
Tnited States, as compared with 3.5 r
telephones for every 100 people in s
-ermany, 2.3 in Great Britain and +
'orthern Ireland, 1.3 in France, and t
g in Italy. Although Japan had the +
ueNelOpeu system Oh il
ny Asiatic country, she could e
cast of but 90 telephones per 100 a
lhabitants, even prior to the earth n
uake of September, 1923. 1t is is
gnificant that these foreign coun- [
les have all entrusted the develop f
ent of their telephone systems to
0vernment ownership, whereas in tt
lie United States the telephone bus n
ess has been ~energetically develop ii
by private initiative. Telephone te
stems operated by private enter il
Use now include II per cent of the in
Orld's total telephones; only 20 per G
mt being under government own
ship. Canada, with 1914 tele- :
ZONES per 100 people, and DEN n