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Show CARE IX USE OF TELEPHONE MAY SAVE MUCH TIME More than nine and' a half years of telephone service was lost during the first nine months of 1923 by forgetful forget-ful telephone subserioers in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania alone according to figures recently-compiled by .the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Public Service Information Commttee. Telephone receivers were left off the hook more than a quarter of a million times in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania during that period, and as the average time required to get the subscriber's error corrected was jt'.vem'y minutes, there was an aggregate aggre-gate loss of service amounting to 5,000.000 minutes, or nine and a half years. Forgetfulness was found by the telephone companies to be the chief reason for this condition. At the close of the conversation the subscriber sub-scriber often forgot to replace the receiver on the hook. Some left the instrument to deliver a message, or were called away or otnerwlse interrupted, inter-rupted, and did not return to complete com-plete the conversation. Others accidentally acci-dentally replaced ithe receiver in such a way that it rested on a book or something else which prevented it from depressing the hook. While the receiver is oft the hook, no incoming calls can be received: and it is necessary- for switchboard operators to report that the line is out of order. |
