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Show Lccatici cf Every Reported Blaze Is Insfcdtly riade :' KcOT7n Aa!cmtic:lly at Central St:ti:x ' -; ' Tbs flr alarm oflce of the Salt Laka Fire department headquarters is equipped with one of the most complete end highly t perfected fire alarm telephone tele-phone erttems ever seen in the West. Thi Installation of this systeni Ju6t been completed from designs made especiall y to supply the - present and future needs of tbs department, by local lo-cal telephone experts. . ,,s The equipment cabinet was also locally local-ly made. . The design of the new 'phone call is radically different from the ordinary ordi-nary 'phone and it Is called in technical terms the venerator visual call system. The 'phone transmitter is at the end of an arm. as In the ordinary lonf-dls-tancs 'phone. Beneatn the transmitter on either aide are large bulls-eyes of fine ground glass. The one on the right is a deep ruby color; while the left is wblte. . . When a fire call is sent In from central, cen-tral, the bell rings loudly and the red 1 light glows like the eye of a demon. If an ordinary call is used, the white light glows mildly on Its own side of the Indicator board. Above the red and white signal lights is a row of ten small holes.- above which In turn are ten little windows. When central rings the Are department on an ordinary call, the window above the first of these holes is fl lied by a white card, which- flies op when the bell J rung. Action Zs Automatic. .." c . ! : . In answering the 'phone a plug is inserted in-serted in the tiny hole beneath the window, win-dow, when the Indicator in the window drops. When the conversation is concluded, con-cluded, and the receiver is hung up, the white light goes out. , Tbe tea boles and signal windows are for jndepedent lines, two of which are now in use, to stations 2 and 4. These stations can be, called from headquarters, headquar-ters, independent of central. . , ; In the' case of fire, central, as soon as notified that there is a fire, touches a button, close at hand. This button sounds tha alarm at headquarters, and simultaneously unfastens all the horses who dash to their posts. . When the 'phone rings for a "still or 'phone alarm, t the red lamp .on the Indicator glows, and the signalman on. duty knows that It is a notice of fire he is to receive. He then pushes the alarm gong and takes the location of the fire from the operator. - . -r With this system there Is an added service for the firemen. In case a -person notifying .central of a Are becomes too excited to give details, all be has to do is to get central and "shout ."Fire r Central can instantly send in the alarm and within fifteen seconds can give the location of the 'phone from which the j alarm was sent. . ', Arranged for Still Alarms. ' The new equipment at headquarters la also fitted with a switch so that at night the bells can be thrown out of service by pulling a button. Then, when the 'phone is called, the bells will not ring, but the respective lights will glow as before described. Chief Bywater of the Fire department is delighted with the new equipment. Speaking of this he said to The Telegram, Tele-gram, after explaining the operation 1 of the board: - The mechanism is the simplest and the most accurate one could well imagine. ima-gine. There- Is scarcely any limit to its usefulness, and Its possibilities as a time saver are truly remarkable. We bave had-practical , demonstrations of the practicability and all-around utility . of the equipment, and we can scarcely understand how we worried along without with-out it until this time." All members of the department who have Independent, 'phones In their homes, by an arrangement with the management are notified at home whenever an alarm is sounded, and are advised as to the location of the fire. All of the fire alarm boxes of the city are connected up in the telephone company's com-pany's switchboard room, and whenever , an alarm is sounded In fire department headquarters, it is also sounded at central, who is thus advised instantly as to tie location of every fire. |
