Show daily the greatest private telephone et changes iii the world are those at the U r C LJ 4 5 waa go extensive united states government capitol and departments in the most at washington as for instance the war and navy departments and the depart merit of agriculture such an exchange k covers hundreds of phones and there isa muni cation with all the more important officials at their homes the P equipment of the more notable of these governmental exchanges is perfection I 1 ir 7 itself the switchboards for instance 4 are of the illuminated type that is instead of the receipt of each call being marked by the fall of a small metal tab something that may easily be over f looked by a hello girl the summons e for central to make a connection is given by the illumination ot a small electric lamp something that cannot readily escape notice the switchboard of this type provides of course one k 74 5 WOW Y 2 X ve af R 4 A P A S all 1 1 faz r 4 A VC 7 al R op r W UNCLE SAM has been quick to adapt to his own uses all the U notable inventions and sinnova eions of the age the tele phone wireless telegraphy the automobile the flying machine and all an the other notable cien r and mechanical advances of the generation have been pressed into service by the fed eral government as quickly tuck Y or almost as quickly as spheres hr 0 of usefulness have been opened to them in the commercial cominer cial field of all the nineteenth and awen bieth century revolutionary ere cre athons however no one has cometo have such dependency placed upon it by the national 15 gov av eminent as has the telephone hone certain it L IS Is that there would be occasion for universal sur prise were it possible to compile statistics that would show what pi tion of the government bu business iness is now transacted by telephone every federal official from the president to the most subordinate of the nation s public servants has a telephone on his deis de Is and con Bide side rations of time saving and monetary econ omy to say nothing of the coi cot impel the almasd tit uti versa employment of the in stan taneo is porm ni nf athe system it has fo to a great ex tnt displaced the mails malls and tele graph NN washington ashington our national capital is fai tat hiis as as the best telephoned ut cit in the world and it Is likewise lik ewie known knon jai fat and wide as the city of magnificent distances two to circumstances which combine to influence heavy dependency upon the telephone by the 30 federal employed emp loyes at uncle sam sams s head quarters more than this however the exec i tive branch of the government Is coming to rely more and more upon the telephone tor for the transact transaction ton of official b iciness between the seat of government and federal offices in oth er cities aside from this extension ot of long distance telephone operations uncle sam thoroughly abreast the times is now conduct ing practical experiments with wireless tele phony perhaps the most convincing evidence that could be offered of the degree of dependency which uncle sam now places on the telephone Is to be found in the attention paid to the in stall stal atlon lation ot of telephone facilities in the new nevi oa 00 office building recently completed tor for the ue uve of president taft and his business staff eer eier since the spanish american war the telephone room at the executive offices has been considered one of the most important features of this model business establishment but the equipment of the reconstructed white house annex is infinitely Infinita ly superior to the tele phone facilities in the old structure and is in deed probably the finest and most complete to be found in america that is the most notable that has been provided in any private rest dence or corporate business office or else chere than in the up to date telephone ex chai chat in our largest cities the ne tefeil I 1 one i gom at the white house dj in ins on one hand the general staff room working quarters of the presidents clerks d tei Lg cg raphers and on the other hand the I 1 the to the just beyond this la Is the prest dent s private office so that the chief executive of his light tight hand man can teach reach the telephonic nerve center with vry lit tie tle trouble the private branch exchange in the matter of switchboard switch boari boar A and all the details of equip ment m e n t represents the latest approved practice and the wiring of the of flee Is thoroughly up to date by no means the least important feature of the the telephone room Is a specially designed tele phone booth claimed to be the finest booth and the only one of its kind in the world this Is tor for the use of the when 14 qua j V 0 if Y A C i at f t 2 A 17 I 1 V t aej UR if t 0 1 14 J h i X va 1 far W rha yoon TH 0 on AT a rue V 11 7 44 bing the long distance telephone and the structure I 1 sound proof aroot in the highest degree in genera appearance aprea rance the presidents president s new telephone booth conforms very closely to the usual type of booth found in hotels railroad stations and business houses all over the coun arv to be sure the oak wood of which it Is constructed has been specially selected for its I 1 lautif il it grain and the plate glass in the door and windows nindo As Is s un heavy but in gen eral appearance the booth conforms closely to prevailing standards the distinctive charac te is the yoo roominess miness of the interior not only will the booth accommodate satisfactory satis factor ily fly so big a man as president taft but there is an pit space tor for a stenographer to sand beside the president presidents s chair ins de the booth in case the executive sheild sho ild desire to have a memo randa randd taken down in shorthand as he received it over the telephone there are al also alo o facilities whereby if desired this booth can in warm weather be connected with the novel air cool ing system which has been installed in the new white house offices for the purpose of making them habitable to a weighty eighty pr president ident d ling the dog days gh the of this telephone clear ing house with an op operator prator on on duty night aad and day the president has thel entire official world at his ear first of all it selves as the central of the white house private telephone system this system has IS inside stations as they are known in technical jargon that is it controls a dozen and a halt different tele phones distributed about the presidential man sion slon the white house offices and the grounds and thereby linking the business offices the living quarters the kitchens laundry stable and garage etc etc not forgetting the head quarters of the police frore e of 32 men that guard the hoise ard the ri embers of which may be needed at some point quickly to control a crowd 0 orf remote a crank ir la ja the I 1 presidents residents private exchange his phone or any of the other 18 may be quickly connected to any of the thousands tho thoi sands of phones official and non boffl official cial em embraced braced in tte public telephone system of the city of washington cn however the higher circles of officialdom I 1 ire are by no means dependent upon the public service for their telephone facilities they have a very ingenious system of their theft own it Is a secret network of wires and very natural ly it Is centered in the white house bartly this confidential telephone web consists of a special private telephone wire leading bioni the white house to each ot of the nine de apartments part ments of the government the main pur pose of this is to enable the chief magistrate to at any n on ent consult with any of his nine cabaret officers without any danger of eaves dropping but of course should the president de desire ire to communicate confidentially by phone with any subordinate in any of the depart ments it is i t simple matter to summon such individual to the secret phone rather than to have him communicate commini comm cate with the white house via the regular telephonic channels equally important as arteries of quick corn cont muni cation are the two special telephone wires leading from the white to the united states capitol one of these lines lea leads ds into the gret greit exchange at the big white domed building and through this central the dent can get connection with the private office of iny tny senator or representative or with the cloak rooms or other rendezvous of the law makers the other line from the white house to the capitol is a strictly secret line not only does it not lead into the eich exchange arige at the capitol but the terminal Is not accessible to any person save with the presidents sanction it is safe to say that there are men who have been in congress for years who do not know of the existence of this secret line to the white house much less know the location of its terminal however the line serves a most important purpose falt forit enables the president to at any time confer with the vice president or with any senator or representative for in stance the administration spokesman or floor leader in absolute security as to the con confided fiden bial character of the verbal exchanges not even a hello girl can overhear what Is said in number of connected telephones and in point of the average number of calls handled 4 A 1 t little incandescent light for each subscriber in the tern tent the expense of such installation may be surmised however from rom the tact fact that the switchboard ot of this pat tern recently placed in one of the governmental ex changes cost 5 S some me few public men in washington who do not wish to de e bothered with business after office hours have adopted the expedient of having secret or unlisted tele ph phones oneat at their residences under this scheme the publia 1 man confides the number of his confidential phone to intimates or others whom he Is willing to have call him 1 up but so tar far as the telephone directories show he has no phone at his residence and central la Is forbidden to connect persons who cannot give the confidential number that acts as a password A possible disadvantage of this system was III illustrated rated in the recent predicament of senator henry cabot lodge of massachusetts who in en deavo ring to call his own residence by phone discovered ij that he had forgotten the number after several hunsuc attempts at a solution of the difficulty he was finally obliged to call up the white house and obtain his number from the operator in charge there who tortu fortu 14 bately recognized the senator senators g voice the united states arny army and navy have tor for some time f past placed great dependence upon the telephone aside from the extensive use of the invention at navy yards ohp the telephone has been employed universally tor for interior communication aboard our battleships and the keynote of the new fire control system on the reconstructed 3 battleship Is found in th the tele telephone p hon e installation which fl permits quick communication on be between twee n the officers at the f top of the new fire control towers and the officers who nho are directing gunnery operations from protected stations in the heart of the ship the army similarly has utilized the telephone tor for all sorts of communicative purposes at forts and military posts probably the most important being its employment if for communicating determinations of range from the fire control and batttle direction stations to the various bat the army has also employed the telephone for a variety of field operations including experiments with j the motor telephone and telegraph car of the united I 1 states signal corps and a particularly mobile system t which has enabled the baying of telephone aves and corn com muni cation by telephone between betwee fit horsemen horse meu I 1 riding at a gallop in opposite directions latterly both the army and the navy have taken up the wireless telephone it may be remembered that during the round the world cruise of the battleship fleet the wireless tele i phone was employed extensively for com commini muril cation between the various ships now the fl united states army signal corps Is taking up lip 14 wireless telephony with long distance In stalla eions with a view to determining the utility of the system for field service with the in et st in use it Is possible to communicate in an ordinary conversational tone for a distance of 15 to 20 miles the army expert menta are designed especially to develop ap is that will combine compactness and lightness |