The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-19
Breezing Round New York
Where TO Go and What to See; Where

graph to places without automatic
receiving machines but with facil-
tiles 10 relay AFRAID alarms 10
great quantities OF people.
There are many firms that reach
all their departments with an auto
matte pencil writing machine. For
example, otel Woodstock at 1877
West ARD street Is within few sec
onds walk by any Western Union or
Postal Telegraph service. The hotel
caters up 10 twelve hundred people
daily. An alarm could be written in
the front office which Is instantan-
eously recorded for every fireman,
elevator man, maid, walter and 9TH
er hotel personnel to read. All en-
ployes would Immediately proceed
to their proper stations with the
same precision that an ocean liner
crew would exhibit at a time of en-
Urgency. Manager Carroll said that
while they appreciate thoughts Of
complimentary service by any one
of those utilities mentioned earlier
his firm would gladly pay for such
calls in addition TO a generous tip
for messengers quick leg work on
personal delivery.
Similar teleautograph pencils ore
used in great quantities in New York
City. All places where they are i'll
stalled would have to be tabula.cd.
1t is estimated over a million peo-
pie would be affected as the result
OF an instantaneous message in this
form. These would be recorded with
train starters, signal and tower men.
repair crews and countless others
involved in our great transportation
centers with their more than a
hundred thousand people who con-
gregate at such places as Grand
Central Terminal or Pennsylvania
Station, Mays Department store,
with huge crowd and others of
equal Importance.
Great quantities Of freight might
be saved by this little device. These
pencil writing machines can be
found in thousands of places COW
ering every type of industry and
worker
Then there is the Executone Com
munications Systems with an esti-
mated thirty eight thousand bus
mess installations in the metropol-
itan area alone. These services are
installed in cities from New England
to California coasts. There hook-ups
units are employed for one to twen-
ty departments, sometimes more. An
air raid alarm attachment is now
being installed Oh EXecutone sys-
TENS that permits emergency cut
ms which make simultaneous
alarm broadcast possible.
Morse biography men tell me it
might be possible for the telephone
operators to make general alarm
to Subscribers, not by ringing every
phone but by staccato bling, bling,
bling bling, bling bling, bling bling, bling,
ing, signal. Possible and practical
are two different words. To super
impose such an operation on exist
ing equipment might be difficult
job so this problem is for more
technical men to ponder.
Another probability of sounding
an enormous alarm of danger looms
through facilities of Holmes Electric
Protection Service. Engineers tell
me that it would be possible to re-
verse burglar alarms. This would
make gongs ring at places employ
ing Holmes Service. The concern
has been considering the possibili-
ties of automatically extinguishing
store window and safe lights by re-
mote automatic control on air raid
signals. This additional measure
would simply be another bit of
work. They and their customers
would have to consider all the pros
and cons and advantages and dis
advantages of such service.
"SDT" similar burglar alarm
service operating heavily through
out the nation makes this unit of
alarm possible in fact for nation
wide usage.
A compilation Of every available
means of starting and extending
alarms through every known way Of
communications and merging their
use for common welfare is a prac-
teal scheme.
No mention has been made Of the
network of air or conveyor sys-
TENS nor fire alarm nor police
box hook-ups TO be used in reverse
yet they are practical and might
be needed. All thoughts here have
been directed to aut omatic moves
that originate without effort on the
part of these to be notified but who
are to take action on alarm signals.