Show CABLE ABLE COING BAD pUTs MANY PHONES OUT Of- Of SERVICE Cant Can't Even Get Police Station Station Station Sta Sta- Sta- Sta tion on One Local System tern tem Today As a result of a defective cable on th the State street trunk of the Bell Ben Telephone company a system stem somo omo S private telephones telephones tele tee phones and several o. o exchanges hanjes east o of Main Man street between South Temple and Third South streets ts arc aro rc out of ot c commission commis sion toda today Information from tho the company offices I is that thal the condition is a result of ot th the grounding of the the cable through electrolysis electro electro- 1 lysis it being ne- ne necessary essary to make new connections on the four foul hundred pairs of i wires now disconnected A sans gang an of mer men has been berm employed employed all all morning in repairing repairing repair repair- ing tho the lines JInes and it is expected that servIce service service ice will vill be resumed late lato ato this afternoon oon One repot t. t this t-this this morning ha h It that the tho break bleal In the service was caused by bythe bythe bythe the blunder of ono one of tho the company's linemen line line- men who was yas sent out yesterday to cut cuta cutno a no dead cable and aUlI who cut a live one Instead Whatever the reason all Boll Bell telephones at the central fire station the poll o sta sta- station tion lion the Western Vestern Union Telegraph company com corn pany the Postal Tlc Telegraph raph company h Ii h Knutsford hotel an and others scattered throughout the business section of the city east of Main street between South Temple and Third South streets aro are not working toda today The system at ar the centra central central cen cen- tra fire station however is such that all calls intended for the station are sent in from No o. o 2 2 station on the private wire so that alarms are aro being taken care of ofas ofas ofas as usual Much Inconvenience has been caused at police pollee headquarters patrolmen having been cn unable to call in hourly while on ill 1 their beats Recently compiled statistics show chow that the busiest day of the year fo for tor the telephones tele phones in the United States Is I Is the day before Christmas so that the hamu coming a a's as It does the day ay before the last las as business dav before Christmas Is exceptionally exceptionally distressing and will result In much extra running about numerous de deas delays delays de- de lays as and no little cussing |