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Show TALK OVER TELEPHONE IS TO BE MEASURED Chicago, April 17. The efficiency of a woman In measuring the talk of another woman Is seriously questioned -by General Manager Hibbard of the Chicago Telephone company. Therefore the company has installed install-ed nearly 2.000 "talk measures." The franchise of the company provides pro-vides that. meters shall be installed just as soon as an efficient meter Is found. An engineer of the Chicago Telephone company has Invented a device which is being tested. This Is only one of fourteen which have been Investigated, but objections were found to each. That now being tested Is the same which Is used In New York. Tho only difference Is that New York uses a shorter circuit, and Mr. Hibbard said that the plan, which was the most efficient, would be recommended by the company. |