Show SYSTEM If NEEDS NO CENTRALS Service Being Installed in Butte Gives Subscribers Direct Connections SAID TO BE SUCCESSFUL THREE THOUSAND INSTRUMENTS INSTRUMENTS INSTRUMENTS MENTS TO BE PUT IN Salt Lakers Interested in the latest form of telephone service are watching the developments In the Installation at Butte of an automatic telephone system by the Independent Telephone company of that state Local business men who have haye recently returned from Butte bring excellent re reports reports reports ports of the success of the new system About telephones are being installed in that city and they are working in a manner fully up to expectations It is said The automatic device by which the system system tem tern Is operated does away with central operators On the frame of the telephone Is a circular dial containing numbers from 1 to 0 O If the number 2247 2 7 is wanted for example a subscriber pulls an indicator to the number 2 releases It then pulls It to 7 2 again and lets lots It U go back next to tot 4 t and then to 7 He pushes a button at atthe atthe atthe the bottom of the dial and the process of ringing 2247 47 has been completed If the theline theline theline line is busy a faint buzzing will be heard in the receiver Two girls are employed as Information operators but that is nil all aside from the trouble shooters and outer linemen necessary necessary necessary essary to keep the telephones in order Seattle has a similar system and it is claimed that it has been successful in that place |