New Britain herald., 1926-06-25
NETWORK OF WIRES
 ID GET CRIMINALS
New Britain Given Credit for
 Starting State System
Especial to The Herald.)

IldI LlOTu, Juue GO-4NeW Bllldill
 police officials were given credit for
 inaugurating the statewide move
 for more rapid communication be- tween police departments of Conn., ecticut cities at & demonstration Of the proposed installation Of telc- phone typewriter service, connecting police headquarters throughout the state and making written communi- cation simultaneous between all, giv- en here yesterday afternoon at the
 office of the Southern New Eng land Co. The demonstration which followed q session of the State Po-
 lice association was attended by mayors, police chiefs and police commissioners of cities and towns from all parts of the state. A num- Der of officials present were guests of the company at a dinner which
 followed the exhibition.
 Each machine resembles an elec- trically operated typewriter. Besides
 writing on his own machine, the operator causes his message to be " llItll SlIlulltl4l'OuCI1 pll flLl OL lJIt other machines attached to the sys- tenn. The current for operating the system is superimposed on tele- phone lines. By use of a call bell
 one station can attract the attention of others on the line, and by use
 of key a station may cut itself off from the network. Officials said that q system of limiting the area of distribution of message could be controlled by development of a sys- tenn of switching keys which would determine what stations should re-
 ceive the message.
 Credit For D. l.. Dunn
 David l.. Dunn, former chairman of the New Britain police commits sion, deserves credit along with two other active officials for starting the move for quicker communiCati ton which crystalized in today's meeting, according to Arthur Goodyear, off jcial in the telephone companys com mercial department in New Haven.
 Mir. Dunn several months ago ap- preached T. r. McAuliffe, New Brit ain manager of the company, asking that the company cooperate in plan hing and installing some method of superior to the pres Ient custom of using toll lines for po- lice messages. At the time it was suggested that trunk toll lines be re- served for the departments. After several consultations between Chief of Police William c. Hart. Peter Pa jewski, chairman of the police board, MT. McAuliffe, and other off cials of the telephone company, this plan was abandoned in favor Of the telephone typewriter service.
 After numerous officials present at the conference had voiced their en- .thusiastic approval of the system land claimed that they would pro pose the plan to their respective po- lice boards and ask that the item be included in next years budgets, Chairman Pajewski created consid erable interest by his declaration that, under the liberal financing of lllC -NtN bIlttlh pOllSC it BcNA AtliA'Al'' his board could immediately order the system installed in his city with out submitting the plan 10 the com- mon council for action. He explain ed that the board was empoW cred to order items up 10 $500 without restriction. Officials of other cities said that they would have to post pone action till they made sure of appropriation on their budgets.
 Officials Enthusiastic
 In common with every official present, MT. Dunn, Chairman Pa jewski and Chief Hart were enthu- siastic in their approval of installing the system in New Britain. Mir. Pa jewski declared "by all means IT. recommend it at the next meeting of adoption of the machines to police use as "a big step in the right di- rection." He argued in favor of the suggestion that a signal system be perfected enabling stations to choose to what towns the messages be sent.
 CnleI ldTI COIlluenueu OIldlIllldu Pajewski for his part in bringing the project into the public eye and into action. He explained that the pro- posed system would save consider able money and time in the New Britain department. He said that in cases like automobile thefts his de- parement communicated with six or eight departments in nearby cities, while in murders and other serious incidents sometimes as many as 30 cities were called. He was enthu- siastic over the project that would make this widespread alarm simul- taneous with it's dispatch in every city throughout the state.
 The price quoted by the company to the New Britain department was $60 & month for the tape type of and $75 a month for the page type. This was considerably