Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1921, Winnipeg, Manitoba Matoba free Tor Tho of there is shown Here Section of the manual switch gird in tha she Brocka Telephone the manual system was Ulver Ilin Winnipeg up to the year f the installation of the the Leture was taken by and for a second the Row of girl operators in their but the Busy nature of the system is shown by a Ilance at the Section of the switchboard in the the supervisor gives immediate expert assistance in the Case of any difficulty i connecting up the above is a View of the secondary line switch at the automatic important link in the wonderful electric Chain which transmits a Telephone Call without the Aid of a human an outline of the distance toll lines stretching across Manitoba from East to West and showing Tho method of buying nates new being adopted to Lessen damage to lines and interruption to service caused by sleet the Manitoba Telephone system an outline of its activities Manitoba operation of the intimate instrument that has Woven itself into provincial systems growth in the last Twenty every inhabited part of opening up new country As the Railroad connection with the expense of Rural periodical inspection of All As Well As Urban and introduction of Accident proof ensures unbroken service incite and work after a sleet thirty tears ago the Telephone was considered either a scientific toy or a doubtful probably Tew people foresaw the Day socially and in a business even Community would be dependent upon a reliable Telephone Bells reproduced at the end of few feet of was the Marvel of Day within the memory of Many men still but Bells a year or two reaching the ear of his old time assistant across a Contin ent was a matter of so has the Telephone Woven itself into the intimate the wonderful development of the Telephone has made it not Only a City or provincial but a nationwide be it in unlike any other Utility in the Way it enters into human re the syst ans growth in 1900 there were in use in Mani Toba approximately today there Are or approximately one to even nine these telephones Are divided into three numbering the provincial locals which includes All stations in towns or Vil Lages throughout amounting to and the Winni Peg which is considerably larger than the other groups com totalling at present approximately including manual and Long distance wires and toll con nesting Points have been extended and established to practically every inhabited part of the province where demand or necessity and where it has been within reasonable Cost to carry on Telephone construct none of these Points can be considered As individual to them they Are All links of the sys and add their proportion of usefulness to the Utility a a we should therefore be Clear that every addition and Extension enhances the value of the service to All its like the it is a Well known fact that when it is desired to open up a new coun try one of the greatest Means to this end is the construction of a Railroad development opens up new arteries for and in its construction it is often necessary to carry lines of steel through Ungro Winnipeg automatic phone Plant a visit to the automatic Telephone Ivilo a Businesslike glance up says t there a col burning somewhere Evi Dently there is not but this compe tent female electrician grabs a Stool and sets off to investigate is As much a part the twentieth Century As the marvellous automatic like locker room the Imide of the automatic phone Plant looks exactly like the locker inuit Winnipeg sets one consider tie Marvel of How closely the Bardhi of the inventor is follow the path of the Parent infinite kind that originated uie shapes of vate drop unil of sphere natures common Orma of sphere and curve Are found i after in inc Onton doubly ii ans of Machin 7 on the wonderful fourth hat of Lio Manitoba government lelepoones1 Antral i a Host of Grasshoppers under a hot Sun would Noutko a sound Tome hit like that which greets the Secir As one Steps out of the elevator into this place filled Wilt in a except that the locker doors Are of Glass with Metal and behind them one not Hooks to hang but vertical columns of explains the mysteriously alive presiding Genius of the As one halts before a Row of these trans Parent Locke like is group of secondary line he inserts the Blade of his pocketknife Between two Metal immediately and a switch Clicks with the Tuo factory with ceaseless soft Bustle like works of a batteries of switches Buzz and Nicker like bees lived behind up near the a Bell Rii Irb a u Manin russet overalls comes but from u 6iasawalled machinery and makes Scott la what happens when you take the Telephone off the it operates a switch called the primary line switch and the primary line switch plunges it is termed this takes you As far As the secondary line switch and connects you with the first selector instrument putting that instrument under control of your dial you having your phone off the bring your dial into use and Send your electric impulse stage by until it connects with the line you passes along that line and rings the subscribers Bell in his House or As the Case May How automatic works these further stages of automatic connection were explained and illustrated during a around the it devolved that the clusters of in their Glass were merely the servants of certain yet wonderful instruments which Are the real units and governors of the system of automatic these which Are exactly Simi Lar in appearance but which operate Are the selector and con the is Illus trusted on this with an explanation of How the parts the Chain Between be calling sub Scriber and the called subscriber is duct Lve territory for the purpose of reaching and connecting up Points that Are fairly Well a Large proportion of the Railroad traffic is of course Between Thesa but the connecting route Al lows passengers to be picked up and carried to intervening if it were not for the business done be tween the Large centres it would not be possible at All for the Railroad company to consider building lines for the few users in in the course of intervening Points commence to principally owing to the existence of the and All Are the same thing applies with equal Force to Telephone Rural Telephone construction is much More expensive than town or City owing to the length of line necessary Between Rural Homes and if the annual charges on the for the Rural pole line of the same length As above now costs per mile the wire line of at per and the Rural subscribers Mak ing the total when one sets the Revenue from the Rural sub against the Cost of discovers a loss for to one per subscriber of maintain the subscribers line costs a total of divided As follows current main ten and As to the annual charges against the Manitoba government Telephone it costs about More to run the service in the City of Winnipeg than it does in the rest of the the exact figures Are the four items of oper the main office building of the Manitoba Corner of me Dermot and Charlotte construction Cost were placed on the Farmers a Large majority of them would be unable to pay the and business subscribers would of course be unable to communicate with Many Points of province which they can profitably communicate with now consequently the More the system is developed the better it is for the business subscriber using the in other the greater the Telephone development id throughout the the More valuable will the Telephone be to All the total Cost to the investment in the Manitoba government Telephone Plant to Date 13 divided As follows provincial towns and toll construction now in it is interesting to compare the Cost per subscriber of Rural line construction in years with the Cost per which is More than twice As in 1916 it Cost to connect a Rural subscriber up with the Tele phone system of this was divided As follows Rural pole per at per Rural wire per at per Rural sub scribers up to in it costs per subscriber depreciation Ami interest which make tip this annual charge compare As follows opera Depre pro Winnipeg investment the investment in Winnipeg to Day is there will be spent this year for improvement and additions to the approximately bringing the total investment up to the fixed annual costs against this amount will Bei in 000 and the maintenance and operation Cost will be approximately the Revenue under proposed rates is estimated at leaving a deficit for the City of Winnipeg alone of As has been we propose to eliminate this deficit by improved methods Anil increased compared with Ontario to the Rural construction in Manitoba totals Miles of pole lines and Miles of single the average number stations per mile of pole is those who May be inclined to compare this with older settled such for the equipment Aggregates with sub on average of about sub scribers per remember whereas Manitoba farms aver age a Hal Section 320 on Tario farms average Only from 60 to 100 readily accounting for the larger average of Rural subscribers Iff system the Manitoba government Tele a inspection All their Rural lines and the Bat or banged once a a changing of the Bat teries is done by the District men who Alao attend to any repairs the line such As up Slack and replacing poles that have either rotted or been broken Down in some taking the Plant in this the depart ment is Able to keep its lines at All times in firs class and the subscriber is assured of a continuous service in return for his Small an Nual Telephone the while Able to appreciate the advantage of an unbroken is not always appreciate the difficulty of maintain Rural in ail Par tw116 edition to the severe the drifts along the Road allowances make impossible for the repair Man to use and he has to patrol his lines on the department has endeavoured to have every District Man located at a convenient Point in the Bear ing in mind he is Able to take care of Only so Many subscribers assistance being j usual troubles after a bad one outstanding cause of such unusual trouble waa the sleet storm last when about 260 poles the Winspe District holes for new ones had to by Frozen under water n when one considers the under which the repair men have work to effect even temporary re in cases where there Are 25 Miles of poles Down in one the efficiency of the Mani Toba government a Ruth its policy of uninterrupted service tin Der All May be better an in addition to organizing its Force of workers so As to be Able Moke the quickest possible re devices Are added from year to year to make the system As nearly As possible head Guys and closer Spac tha inside of the automatic Central on the fourth floor of the former Garry Exchange building on Modermott and Charlotte is very like Tho inside of a gymnasium locker the automatic Plant is a much More compact affair than the older manual which is show nop double doors of House the Long columns of through the Glass one May observe these switches twin kingly Call is going one of the which can be seem like rows of but tons through the moves Sid Wise with a slight Burr and like a clock about to this Click of an army of switches a the Only sound which greats tha ear As one Steps into Tho mechanical Central of the uncovered instrument a the unit of Auto Matic Telephone its the picks out tha particular Calt of by tha ing of Polea Are used wherever there is great Strain but it is sometimes human ingenuity to build what is known As a with wooden 10pin Cros Sanns and open which will up under a Load of ice and a heavy Public Utility in it might be pointed out that the difference Between the publicly owned privately owned Utility is not so a Finan Cial one a where the private institution pays this might be by the word government institution spends and More la carrying its services unproductive localities where the private corporations could not afford to Why the automatic service the automatic Telephone at the Elmo it was introduced in win a device whose efficiency had been proven by successful use in Larga United states at that both main and Garry Exchange switchboards had reached a Point where they had outlived the life of the average manual and As these exchanges would have had to be entirely re equipped anyway to take care of the increased it was decided that the time was Ripe and favourable for installing the inspections Wade of other plants which had adopted the automatic Telephone showed beyond a doubt that system it was phone first Selec second third Selec Bell of called subscribe that is to taking the phone off the Hook sends the electric impulse Over the primary wire line to the secondary wire line and alone that line to the first then the subscriber commences to use his he dials ills prefix or or whatever it Tho Little instrument at the other end of the wire the first selector picks out line leading to group or Bay of similar instruments the second and despatches the impulse on to the right instruments in that the subscriber is now connected with the second he dials the first figure of the num Ber he and the selector switches him on to the he dials the second the third selector switches him on to the last instruments in the he dials the third and the wiper of the Clicks up to the proper level in the and the subscriber then dials the last and the wiper ratchets in clamps itself upon the line and rings the called subscribers Bell John with in the radius of the automatic ser has been connected with his Friend Tom Jones in the same a without any third party know ing anything about far As helping make the connection is in the shortest pos sible one Point subscribers have to re said is to shove th6 dial Ort its return As they sometimes do when haste but always to let i go u they attempt to push the dial they will be Apt to get the wrong number but if they Jet the do its proper connection always be possible to give the Best service at a minimum of Brandon for in had already successfully and economically used the automatics for several the automatic Central the having arrived when additional switchboard facilities were required to take care of the continuous growth of the a Central automatic Exchange was forthwith installed the former Garry Exchange building on Mcoder not to serve subscribers connected with main Garry with the of those located in Norwood and for whose requirements a new automatic Exchange building was erected at the Corner of Lange Vin and Horace present automatic system in Winnipeg takes of the business Sec Tion of of All Norwood and the the equipment has a capacity of some in Norwood capacity of with a total of Dillon of equipment is being added from Timeto time to care of the in applications a automatic service soon it la proposed have fort Rouge made automatic during the year 1922 and the other altered As soon As following the fort the time will come at As Early a when All will be automatic of to the it has been difficult to obtain the necessary As the latest manufacturing concerns Are four to behind in their the War absorbing what Metal was on no extensions were made to the larger Telephone elsewhere during that when the armistice was were immediately concluded to extend the Manitoba government Plant provide the necessary facilities for the enlarged number of requiring Telephone this is a Type of the Rural Exchange erected by the Manitoba government i th5 neat Littie Frame building is fitted with conveniences capable of handling conveniently tha Calls of tha or Rural Telephone tha Talap Kona opens up the country like the Railroad connecting lines across districts afford a maans whereby outlying subscribers May a quickly connected with tha t it exchanges a Eva Arac Tad Fri in tha larger thay built t t i suburban districts Jeanii x ;