Show Telephone Girls Rarely Marry I From the I If H tho government has discovered nothing else in a il year of examina examination oX tion Into the secrets of telephone companies It has haG established the place of telephone service as RS It af affects affect matrimony per percent percent cent cant of the of ot the tele tole telephone telephone phone companies are unmarried 5 S Sper per por cent arc are married and 3 per cent are arc widows In connection with this must be taken the fact however that 71 l per cent of tho the of tho the companies are arc between 16 and ancI 24 years old 22 per cent from rom 25 2 to 36 and only 7 per cent moro than 35 years of age Only of the of ot telephone companies In lu Now York are arc required to work overtime The Tho average monthly wage wago In New Now York for Cor this class of workers Is Chief among amon the worries of the telephone girl Is that she has to walk walkup walkup up lip or down stairs Besides this dlf dif difficulty angry words of ot those who get the wrong number and tho the indelicate Indelicato language which greets tho the report that tho ho line is In use muse are nrc over oer of seventy six complaints received during the investigation by bytho b the tho government vero concerning tho the lack of elevators or the hours of their operation Under the investigation examina examination lion tion was made of ot tolo telo phone companies operating In twentysix states all belonging to the tho three main systems of tho the Bell Dell the Inde Independent Independent pendent and the American Telephone and Telegraph company There are salaried employee 2766 male malo and female ComRIe The Tho average wage of the tho female worker is per mr year ear I Interesting to the telephone user Is la the conclusion of tho the government that on the common battery hatter type of oC switchboard calls should be bo answered in five seconds The report which Is IB made by the bureau of labor coy cov covers CO COers ers era practically every of ot tele tole telephone telephone phone operators except tho the owner ownership ownership ownership ship of or stock Block control |