Show PHONE COMP COMPANY'S ANYS NEW SYSTEM IN OPERATION The magnificent new ne switchboard of or the Roc Rocky y Mountain Bell Telephone I company compan the newest thing In town Is Isnow Isnow isnow now In service How lIow Intricate to the I uninitiated is 15 the modern switchboard with It its thousands and tens of ot thousands thousands thou thou- sands of or wires Ires each having ln Its particular lar function to perform and tind must in no nowise nowise wl wise e touch its neighbor each individual wire Ire must be entirely Insulated from Its Ils mates From ting ting-a-lIn a ting the new board chan changes es to twinkle a Q The sub subscriber will no longer ring a abell hell bell to call Central but the removal remo of oC the tho hand telephone from the hook lights a n. miniature incandescent light in the switchboard When hen connection is completed completed com corn and ersa conversation through each person lerSon as he hangs hanSS th the telephone on th tho hook lights a little good bye lamp and it Is only when the two little lambs burn hurn that the connection is taken down PO so o there will be little chance of or persons being cut off otT before they ate are through talking i Whenever hene a light lIht burns the operator knows she fhe Is wanted anted so the subscriber on only I has hns to make the light burn to get et an answer from the operator he lie soon learns that the movement of or the tIme hook makes the tIme lI light ht burn And thos does awa away with what has hns been a L good deal of oC a nuisance on th the old board boar and annoyance to the till telephone subscriber namely what Is known In telephone parlance as clearing out that Is to toa say a when you ou are aIe through with one part party a and d desire another it frequently took quite a little while to get et the second see sec ond nod party but if IC you wink vink the light the time operator Is notified Instantly of ot the time desire for a second connection The Time telephone co company Is not alone putting In lii a n new board hoal but hut all the subscribers subscribers' subscribers subscribers' sub sub- scribers scribers' appliances must be changed new hells bells new telephones and now new transmitters a at a each subscribers subscriber's sta sta- tion All this is a hea heavy tax upon tho tim telephone company compan hut but Manager Mur Murray ra ray sa says s 's he belh believes cs that nothing Is too good for Salt LakeIth Lake Like With Ith the Installation of or this new board and the time necessary appliances not nol only will rihl er e every subscriber In Salt Lake City ity have ha tho time best hest telephone service that lint Is known but every subscriber In Inthis inthis this city will be le enabled to talk throughout the fifteen thousand miles of cf toll wires radiating in every direction tion from Salt Lake CIt City and with every one of the fifteen thou thousand and other gub subscribers rs In Utah Montana 1 Idaho Idahoan an and Wyoming The old idea of or a n telephone exchange e. e without radiating toll lines Is entirely sane gone and while the subscriber to time the local exchange thought some years ago aso that the value alue of the telephone was wason on only I of or value alue to reach residents of or theton the tho town to circumstances h have changed the whole situation and there is barely an Instrument In this city that is not called h by time the long distance lines or at times finds the a advantage anta e of oC using the long IonS lines for tor talking all an over the mountain region The American merlean people are prejudiced against the the word monopoly and yet a monopoly of or telephone exchanges es and anti toll lines gives sl lo to the time subscriber what can never ne be be furnished without Its all nil being under one control so each ench Individual Individual Indi Indi- vidual can be put in direct connection with every other Individual no matter how far separated whether the next- next door neighbor or ot a thousand miles away said a a. telephone man today The addition to the telephone building building build build- ing necessary to the Installation of this new board will give sl sufficient office room admirably adapted to the necessities ties of the company compan and give to Salt Snit Lake City one of or the best het telephone buildings telephone exchange e services and the long distance services that Is offered to any city of its size in Amer lea ica |