Show Facts About T Telephone e There are more telephones In fn the Pacific Coast states at of California Oregon and Washington than there are arc in jn the whole of Great Britain TelephonIcally speaking w ton tou is by far the best developed caDI oj tal tat city in the world In proportion to at population it has four times as many j telephones as London o o or Paris Upon the establishment of the Irish Free States State the telephones in southern Ireland formerly operated by y the British Post Office numbering about were turned over to the new Government 4 4 A At At- la last t Great Britain is able to claim a million telephone stations The latest government statistics statistics sta sta- sta- sta show that March 31 there were vero telephones In use In Inthe th the United Kingdom Ireland has 33 33 Scotland and aud the remainder remainder re re- Jl are in England and Wales Wates e eAt At the end of f September 1922 thu number of telephones In Great Britain reached a a. million the exact number being It is Interesting in interesting interesting In- In to note in th this s connection that the million mark for telephones in tn New York City was als also exceeded exceed d during 1922 On September 30 this city hud bud a total of tele tele- phones Since the beginning of the present century the population of this country country country coun coun- try has Increased 46 per Iler cent Since tl at date the investment in the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone plant has Increased 1070 per percent cent t and the number of telephones has Increased 1340 per cent With With the exception of a few clues cities in Scandinavian countries and one In Switzerland none of the tho foreign cities cit t Ice ies has lias a development as high as 8 10 telephones per population American cities cales with over population show an average development 1 of or telephones per Inhabitants |