San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04
$4,000 phones
SERVE C|TY'S
\ RESIDENTS
Company Makes Greater
City Growth Possible
With Present F Facilities.
By HARRY MARTIN

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Back in the year of 1881, when San
Antonio was still a village browsing
along under the influence of the noon
day siesta, the Southwestern Bell Telc-
phone Company first made its appear
ance within its boundaries. Poles cut
from the cedar brakes along the Colo
RADIO river were used and the lines
were primitive and the service crude.
1t was with difficulty that the re-
quired first 80 subscribers were OBJ
tanned.
Year after year the system has
grown replacing open wires with aerial
and underground cables, crude and I'M
slightly equipment with modern i'm.
provements as fast as they are received
by the tireless brains of competent en-
gineers. As the village grew into a
city and the city into thriving bust
ness center, and mecca for tourists,
the telephone has kept apace and has
made possible still greater advance
ment.
$1,000 PHONES.
1t is now a city with 10000 tele-
phones. Every telephone plan aAil-
able to any city is available to San
Antonio, when its development shows
the requirement.
San Antonio has the promise of
great future. Its development is being
measured with care and tentative csti-
mates of the probable growth made as
far in advance as 20 years. Upon
these estimates are based the financing
and plans for equipment to meet those
future increased requirements in tele-
phones.
MAKE EXTENSIONS.
Telephone plant is built into all
parts of the city as fast as the re-
quirement justifies, but it must be re-
membered that the telephone exteE-
sions cannot always be made from ex-
isting plant but must be supported by
cables. both aerial and underground.
back to the nearest telephone central
office. Plans for future additions or
extensive building in sections where
the telephone plant docs not reach
are usually made known to the Tcle-
pbonc company as far in advance 70
possible so that plans may be made up
and material ordered in time to furnish
relief as near as possible to the day on
which it is required.
As the city grows and reaches out
its extensions to the most favorable
spots, the telephone lines follow. some
times at great expense, to meet the
growth. This development, however,
must be judiciously handled 70 that
the mass of telephone patrons will not
be called upon to bear the burden of
expense on idle plant investment.
~ OUTLYING OFFICES.
Periodically, owing to increased ex-
pansion. it becomes necessary to cstab-
lish outlying central officers. Addi.
tional offices Of this kind have been
built to meet the needs of San An
tonic and more will be built as the de-
mand requires.
All of these things are helping to
make San Antonio a greater city. arc
furnished to San Antonio to enable it
TO maintain its place as the greatest
Texas city. Business is now done
over the telephone as it is done in per-
son; buying and agreements on the
spoken word have become as secure IS
agreements made in person.
Local and long distance telephone
service now offers exceptional service
for business purposes, for the collec-
ton of news, for distributing infOrma-
ton on market conditions, on weather
conditions and all other factors upon
which our farming and manufacturing
depend. Along the highways of speech
which connect us with one another,
and with other cities, stream the words
which control the business and the
social future of our city and nation.
Each day finds new convenicnces and
new telephone methods for increasing
and speeding business. The telcphon,
will be one of the greatest factors III
building a Greater San Antonio.