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Show TELEPHONE SYSTEM ON THE UP-GRADE. Manager Ramshaw Tells of Expectations Expec-tations for Future. He Also Offers Suggestions Which Subscribers Should Heed. O. W. Ramshaw, manager of the local telephone exchange, repoits quite Mattering progress and great expectations expecta-tions for the future. At the present time there aio IliiO subsciibers In Lo gan, a most giatltylng increase tlie past few months, and Mr. Ramshaw places .')00 as the least number next ear at this time. Last jear the company bought tho 'ot west or TlIK IlKl'UIILIUAN otllce with the Intention of erecting a building build-ing thereon next spring. It will not no known detlnitcly for two or three weeks whether this will be done, but In case it Isn't, a new switchboard with practical) entile new service w 111 he established here. Tlie statement state-ment Is made that it is aho the Intention In-tention of the telephone company to put in an exchange at Smlthlleld hi a short time In speaking of the service subscribers subscrib-ers deshe and what Mi2y get, Mi Ramshaw Ram-shaw said a few tilings that mav be of the giealest advantage to the public pub-lic irthey will but heed. According to Mr. Ramshaw the interests of tlie subsciibei and company arc identical and in ordei to obtain tlie best results theicmiist be to opciation The com-pan com-pan deshes to give tlie very best service ser-vice but tlie actions of subsciibers hc-qucntly hc-qucntly make tills absolutel impossible. impos-sible. When asked to specif, Mr. Ramshaw said: "Take the desk 'phone, toi Instance. The average user feels that he canl pick It up and hold It in any position as he talks and get the best results. This Is not a fact. The 'phone should bo held peipcndlcularly, else the result Is bad." "Again, some subscribers forget out to hang up their receivers when through talking, and if on a party line this makes connection Impossible." "Fully one half the public doesn't 'ring of when through talking and as a consequence central never knows when the line is free. She must necessarily nec-essarily answer 'line's busy' many times when In reality It is not in use. ' "Many subscribers absolutely refuse to look up the 'phono number of the person they desire to speak with, and call for the Individual. This causes delay and hard feelings, for unless the girl has been In the ortlce many months she cannot know the numbers of indi viduals called for." "If one is on a party line the talker should always listen at tho receiver before ringing. In this way he will learn whether the line Is In use and will also save othci subscrlbcis a lacerated lacer-ated car, the result of ringing while the line is In use." "Users of tne 'phono get poor Jesuits Je-suits fiom shouting into the 'phone. They should talk In a very ordinary tone, and with the lips about two Inches away from and squarely In front of 'phone." "Business men asking for partlos at long distance should not leave otllce befoie hearing fiom central. Bydolng so thby create no end of annoyance for themselves, the peison thev sent for and the telephone people as well. If one can't wait for the party at the other end, he should set a time in other words say that he wants a certain cer-tain party at a ccitaln time." There arc many other little things to which Mi. Ramshaw called our attention at-tention but he assured us that if the people would cut out tlie above and paste It where their attention would be called to their own little discrepancies, discrep-ancies, they would get a service one hundred per cent better. If Mils Is a fact, and no doubt it is, it would pa people to heed his suggestions. |