FRIDAY, JULY u, 1907.
THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, "A STOMA, OREGON.
3
TELEPHONE 30TII
ANNIVERSARY
Story Ol Tba Evolution Of Tbs TtU
phoni Switchboard Thlj Summer 8ei
111 Thirtieth AnnWfrssryFirst Cruds
Devlej tot Conniwctlng 8pch.
iKWTdN'. .Inly I'.'. lW.-Next l Hit
anniversary of Alexander tliahsm Hell's
Invention of (li telephone lntrumnt,
no lndutiui birthday I ntor lntrl.
lK mill none, perhnp, i 111 r lmKr
(Rill -tlmn ar (lit birthday (if th first
telephone Hi, mill (li II ml wltihboard,
which full (oKftluT sbmit now. Thirty
Jfain njjii la - JrU single. vlr, MS
sVung front lh faetory In fUin Where
MI' lntruwnt were mad to th
ronufeturt' rdince In Homervllle,
two it thie mile out In (lit suburb.,
Thin wa the. Urn telephone lint tm
Hiitrttctoiltho primal iutctr of ths
ven and hslf million mile of wlrs
wlilili now connect niort than three mil
lion ubcrll.cr' ".tatlon" In th Hell
system. At the beginning of tb sum
mi r of 187, nytitk after th ersotloii of
t It rut telephone line, vrl wire
radiating (ruin common wnlrt wrs
tlou ufi tli general ilun of tin sxohsngs
w tiinli-i nlitml II today i made In
Uot on hi May, IH77. There w then
operating In tbi (.It y a company whleb
provided electrical burglar alarm er
vice. It bud ft central station whet
Urn n In 1 111 lgnnl wer located, connro
ted by wire with lb jJicniUtHt of it
vnrltMiK ubciilier ,whu were chiefly
hanker ami merchant. Arrangement
wer mad fur the ue of these Hues
and tlio central tatlon ss an xpTl men
ial telephone exchange.. V U-jtnuin
were attached to live of tb circuit
I In p in bank, on In tb ofJIc of the
manufacturer of tb Inntiiunenl and
.epcatedly the vires were o connected
III the alarm company' heiliiiarter
that eonveratlon were carried on b.
tweert the neveral subwrlbers,
The cmk' apparatus ued for making
(lieu (uniii'i-(lin ciHild banlly be called
A nwlU'lilmntd, though It served, in IU
small way, the earn purpose a does
the Urgent modern exehang. Hot It
nnthed tb genu of a grt Idea It
Marled experimentation at the rilt of
whii'b then. wa pot Into ralIon th
following January a real telephone cent
tra ullli-e. Iuo In Ilridgeport, Conn.,
thre was prlrat telegraph ytm,
private telegraphy . being a lort of S
octal fad at that tliriej and among th
enthusiast connected with It wa Tho
mas It. nnollltle, already th Inventor
f many Ingcnlou device, and oon td
be th producer of maov wore, Mr.
IVx.llltl attached th telrphon Initru-
ment to bU toclety teleerapb wire,
MODKR.V BWl
for the itrnt time liiUr-eonnected by
mean of a riMde devlca which, through
riiilutlim. Im-ihiic th huge, Intri
cate, highly priffflrd (wltchlKMrd of
today.
Next to III telrpbnn iUidf the wU-h
board i th mot niarvelou and moat
netary feature of the communlca
tmtf yteiu. Th work of th lin
builder ha leu tb moit ectcuUr.
no doubt, but it would, after all, hav
counted for but little were It not allied
with the Inventive geniu that devUeJ
the mean of Joining Into one any two
of the myriad of copper thread by
which vole! are carried far and near.
The earllet attempt of Inter-eonnec-
TCHJHUKH.
modified th awltehboard through which
th line bad been connected, 0 that
it could be manipulated by an operator,
and attached ilgnal bell to all tb cir
cuit a mean of calling th opera
tor' attention, liter wr twenty ub
crlbcii erved by tbi pioneer witch
board. In the miii month that Mr. io
IlltW put hi twitchuOArd Into opera
tion the nrt fully equipped commercial
teliiphoti vxchange ever tablithed for
public or general ncrvice wa opened in
New Haven, Conn. It wa luccen from
th Hart, and no aooncr wa th tiicrou
f w llaven undertaking apparent
than other citiea began liotalllng cen-
to... uju 1 j-to
WHtmHtitttHtHHMIIUMHHWH'
THE TRENTON
First-Class Liquors and Cigars
602 Commercial Street.
Corner Commercial and I4th. Astoria, Oregon.
oiniiiiiMiMUMMmmimnttuM m
STEEL & EWART
Electrical Contractors
Bells. House Phones Inside Wiring and Fixtures
Installed and Kept in Repair
IN BUSINESS FOR BUSINESS AND YOUR SATISFACTION.
13 Twelfth Street.
Phone Main 3881
Happy Colors
You know that there are colon which signify sadness, others which
Indicate happiness but do you ever stop to think how often people sure
maue saa or giaa oecauae 01 me coiorsr
You know that children and flowers thrive best in
the sunshine. . Why not have more sunshine in your
own homo, then why not lot us show you how to get
it la the walls by using ,
mWmi-jjKX im x urn
The SanitMyVfaU Coating
liy having1 your waits decoratea
with Alabastine you will make
them more artistic, more dur
able, more sanitary, and will
make your home a more cheer
ful place to live in. Let us show
you how easy and economical
Alabastine is, and how the dif
ferent tints and stenciled de
signs can be combined to pro-
ouce "exactly inoenect
you want."
Wa wttt nmr In vnn that AUhu.
tin I fuparlnr to vr j other witU oot
rle, It jrua wUl glr u as opportuultx.
ALLEN WALL PAPER &
PAINT CO.
K I ..I!..-- 'fl, .....It.IHl .1...- ..luM
VHt UIIIIVB. 1 ff frVWHI'MlklV IIUIV glTM
the telephone incrtated to pfpulaHty
enoiinoualy ,ln illa,of th doubt and
heltatlon nearly everyone howed In
t!i early day. June 3d, 1S77, tlier
wer 2.IU telephone in the whnl world
thirty 3ar ago today, wher now ther
sr upward of lWi- Within s
I month after, the number had more
'than trebled) within two month it bad
been multiplied by lx and by th
j spring of 1810, when tit Asierican He"
.Telephone Company, the flrt concern
phone system which alon give It it
t. II .1... j..l Al - I 1
IUM raiue, 100 a up in uumc, mm
were In operation tome 01,000 transmit
ting and receiving telephone. Mean
time th central ofllce bad multiplied
wonderfully, and by March, 11, there
were In th United Slate only nine
cltle of mor than I0.WIO inbabiunt,
and only on of more than 15,000, with
Out telephone exchang.
Th early wltcbloard were cuttou
contraption beiid the modern type of
apparatus. They took several form
befor th "multiple board" ud by Ui
Pell crimwnle for nearly twen'ty year
now wa worked out. At firtt they had
lirnii I 1mII of difTerent tone, one at
the end of each ubrrilier'l circuit, the
dlktlnrtlv ton indicating which line
wa "ringing up." Then numbered drop
were adopted ,eh line having a me
tallic nlmHer in the front of the board
which, when the ubcriber turn
ed th venerator crank at the
lilo of hi telephone Instrument,
fell xi a to dUplny th number of hi
line. And finally came tb "common
battery" iwilchboard now In ue in all
large cltle and being adapted to smal
ler excliiK", in which tii ojierator'i
Itfiml 1 given by a tiny incandetcent
electric lamp. The one plan in the
telephone yteni where a bell never
liiiK I now the central ollice.
Millie of the early awltchltoard were
big frame et along tb tide of the
operating room, the connection bring
made by boy who ran from one point to
another a the call came In. Other
wer lik elongated table, the wittb
Mirkct being ' t into the flat top and
the cord for connecting them being ut
pendrd from tlio ceilinu. Aniwratu of
thi not w clumay and "low to oper- j I
ale, lMH.ide being limited in th number , T
of line it could provide for. It wa
abandoned in the I'nited State a quar
ter of a century ago, but it i a curi
on commentary on the lack of progre
Ivene In om direction of our trann-
Atlantic couin tht it U "till in ue;T
in om of the government operated ex-jT
ehanKe of hump. o uouht their
bekwrine in adopting improvement
uptoinit- fn. the in! develitpinent of
Kiir"H i(ii (lephoi.n tein aa coinparftl
with the development in thi country.
Irt the bit few year there have been
defined i-cnlled "automatic" telephone
Mtem in which the milr-rrilter doe the
work of making connection, between hi
line ami the line of other ubcribers,
Innteitd of that work being done by an
operator in the central office. Inimall
communltie, where the expenee of giv
ing day-nud-night, Sunday-and-holiday,
ull-tlie-u'iir-li'iuid oerviee by mean of
npemlor U probiliitive, a limited field
of iiKcfulniH ha been found for ouch
Jiot four Fi Cent Pieces
oars
Half
By attending our Great
-Price Sale
$10,000 Stock of New Merchan- .
dise selling for a few days at
FIFTY CENTS ON THE l3bLLAR
REMEMBER
Our stock is all New and Fresh and the
Highest Class the market affords. Ladies'
Ready.to-Wear goods of all sorts
k
Skirts, Waists, Coats, Hosiery
r i
Corsets, Underwear, Neckwear
. . , . V'Vn -':'. nv! :
Ribbons, Belts, and Clilldretiswear
We Invite You to call whether wishing to purchase or
not We want to prove to you positively that we do exactly
as we say. We sell
EVERYTHING AT HALF PRICE
This sale will last only a few days
so don't wait, but Come Today
383 Commercial St., Two Doors West of 9th St.
Store Formerly Occupied by Centrel Drug Store
it HI I t449mii
1ml communication by wire have expan
ded, till now the Ilell tystem alone ha
in ue one instrument for every 28 men.
women and children in the United
State, and the enormous cot of thi
growth, are probably the most impres
sive things in American induxtrml hi
tory. They are tuggetd in the cold
figure of the cei-.ttiu report already re
ferred to when U "The total val
ue of telephonic apparatus manufflctiir-
iminiiiMimiMMiniMiMiiimiiiHiiiiiiiiiiij
014) TI.MK SWI
mechanically workid exchaime. Hut.
tlio connection of teh-piionc engineer i;i
that "nutomatiu" etuipuient will never,
In cilics and towns of any considerable
Bn t.!..l.! e 4.1 . 1
I him, mijiimiuii iMffuiy pel ireieu lllvuNua-
im opcraicu oy SKiiieu, trainca intel
ligence nt the central station seem to
be borne out by the United State Cen
sus Bureau's bulletin on manufactures
lxstied lat month, which ty, after
describing the different typos of switch
board: "These . manual board consti
tute a very large proportion of the board
Included in the present statistics. There
were in 1002 no fewer than 10,842 man
ual boards In ue, and while no detailed
fl(?nre are given, it I the fact that near
ly all of the central switchbonrd and
private excliange boards made in the
ceinu yenii were also of manual vari
ety." It has recently been stated on good
authority that while there are 8,000,000 j
end more telephone connected with the j
Hell system, and 2,000,000 or so con- !
necU'd with "independent" lines, only !
about 100,000 Of nil these are "automa- j
tia" instruments.
Tlio rate ni which futilities fur ver- !
IVKKOAKl.
cd, us reported in the census of 1005,
had a value of $5,8fi:!.!S!) as compared
with $10,512,412 for the cemus of 1900.
These figure do not reveal all the facts,
for during tlip period covered no greater
activity was shown in any department
of electrical application than in tele
phony. 'The valuo returned for the 4,283 cen
tral switchboards, wa $5,154,447 ,to
which should be added the 3,917 private
exchange board of a value of $504,793,
making a total of $5,719,242. To this
should lie added a large proportion of
the value of $2.0"1,5M reported for tele
phonic part and supplies. The sub
scriber's apparatus used in connection
with these exchange boards and smaler
equipments was reported as having a
value of $8,003,735, of which $0,483,418
was represented by complete sets of
transmitters and receivers." And this
is just the apparatus and equipment for
central office and subscribers' stations,
taking no account of the expenditures
upon the outside lines, overhead, under-
round, and submarine.' .
Fisher
IV-
bfOS
company
Sole Agents for
Barbour's and Finlayson's
Salmon . Twine
and Netting
x Hardware, Iron, Steel and Ship Chand-
:: lery. Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Brass
: : Goods, Paints; Oils, Glass and Hardwood
2
enes
J A Complete Line of Fishing, Cannery
Logger and Mill Supplies '
I Fislir Brofi C3o.
546-550 Bond Street . .
Astoria, - - Oregon
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BATTEffl
Astoria Hardware Co.,
113 12th St.