Show I CONNECTIONS MADE MAD E IN 1 0 MINUTES Wonderful Piece of Work to Be Done in Changing Switchboards at Telephone Exchange Q I The contemplated improvements in the Rock Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company's t telephone exchange will occur within the next nest thirty days A new nosy switchboard the most modern one that can be bc obtained is alread already being installed in- in tailed stalled as rapidly as possible When hen a complete set of wires corre corresponding to the he 3 OO wires now In use has bias been arranged a 0 most wonderful thing will take place Thirty five hundred connections will be broken and the same number of or new ones with the Improved board boar established In ten minutes' minutes time The I transfer depends on the systematic arrangement of or bundles of ot wires each wire being labeled so 50 that it may be properly connected The change chang will probably probably probably ably be ma made e at nl night ht so 50 that as few patrons of or tho the exchange as possible will be inconvenienced The new board will have accommodations for subscribers more than doubling doubling- the capacity of or the old exchange The Tho size of or the exchange room has been doubled b by 13 utilizing the corresponding section of floor in the new ad addition addi- addi l- l lon tion to the thc telephone building In the large room sixty feet square re the new 1 has been placed so as to describe a semi-circle semi around the sides A half-dozen half more girls will be required to equip the part parlor of the board to be in use The most notable improvement under the new system will he be the abolition of or the bell crank The call is Js registered res b by removing remo the receiver recel from its hook This act causes n n. tin tiny electric light on the call cali board boar to become lighted and remain so until the receiver Is again hung up In this way a person may maintain a a. connection without danger of ot being rung of off unless sinless he ho should hang hant up the receiver j I The new 5 system s 's em emm will m require the installation of new nw Instruments through out the city Tho Those e now in use use- will be collected and be put pUl into use in other exchanges along along- the lines of the tho Rock Rocky Mountain company |