Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 October 1914 — Page 22

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TELEPHONE SERVICE IN MODERN HOTEL RAPID

Manager Kissling, of Central Union, Talks of This Development of Business life.

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'Manager KJssling of the Central Union Telephone company said Saturday: "No small part of the modern hotel service is the telephone system. It has been compelled to keep abreast with every other innovation and that 18 the reason why the modern large hotels are so completely and efficiently •quipped."

Commercialization of the telephone was long a«co acknowledged as a fact. It no longer is a luxury.

As an evidence of this, statistics •bow that during the last ten years, or lather from 1900, the number of telephones in use in the United States have increased from 650,000 to about 90,000,000.

In this vast distribution of telephones Terre Haute has not failed to tfcfce of her allotted number. Growing £hom a very few at the beginning of the last decade, this city now boasts •t a development of about 15.5 per fent, or in the neighborhood of 10,000 telephones, taken care of by both sys|Bm8. Thie means a telephone for each Kix persons.

Increased use of the telephone does not

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I Consumed by the operator at the distant office in handling the ticket. This has been found to save from three to

Ifrre minutes on each call, which to the •ubscribers seems like so many hours. This is only one of the many feat*res effected to increase the afflciency Of the service.

Local Developments.

In the outside plant forty thousand pilars will have been spent by the '«ad of the present year in putting the ^'physical property of the company here

Terre Haute in a better condition, be downtown wires are being placed underground conduit and in the (Residence portion of the city everything is being cabled, in so far as it is •practicable.

Each day ^he long distance office Ibandles several hundred messages, ilrtiile during the same period the local jftperators are putting up from thirtyi®*e to forty thousand connections. "The commercial interests," Mansjtiver Kissling says, "are forming the -f%rag distance' habit not exceeded even jittt -the largest cities in the country. tr^Phe manufacturer, the coal operator, ifhe banker and the merchant no longer on the mail or the telegraph, but (iraiit instant communication, which

Xfeni only be secured by the use of the ijalephone." Manager Kissling reports that the [position of the Central Union TeleIfhone company in Terre Haute for [the last few years has been one of iffceady progress and that th? people (tf Terre Haute are daily becoming re frequent users of the telephone, local and long distance.

THOUGHTS THAT COME.

True pride is unostentious. Few so-called proverbs will bear anUfesis.

Prudishness is a thin disguise for a 1®-, -Jpalgar mind. Who wants always his own way is %oon left to travel alone. .. When a»man comes to know himself .'•*11, his conceit disappears. WL. Youth has a habit of being amazed the roily of older persons. 1 '"i

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"Jmfblio, as poor equipment and moreover poor service retards its uses feftther than promotes the usefulness hit could be put.

This "was long ago comprehended by ffee Bell Telephone company, which gpaxes neither time nor money in con1'®tructing and maintaining its physical property in such condition to give the most accurate and efficient service.

Saving of Seconds.

The giving of service, which in realty is the telephone company's stock ptw trade, has become a science. Thoujaands of dollars are spent to save tfleconds, which in the aggregate mean labours.

While local telephone service has not ^t»en slighted, great strides have lately been made in development of the long -'ilstance service. New methods of operating are constantly being tried

OOt in an effort to eliminate tJie wait tChat is often experienced by long disJtance users. The Central Union TeleI -phone company has within the last l^year and a half established a new method of handling their traffic between Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and other points where foes the volume of«business. This method provides that the operator at iCHe originating office talk direct to the flailed party at the terminating point fend thus save the time here- to-fore

Poverty Stricken Man Arrested for Petty Robbery in Flatbush Is Soon Recognized as Frank England.

NiiTW YORK, Oct. 17—A sunkencheeked, poorly-dressed man skulked out of the home of Mrs. William Howard at 808 Church avenue, Flatbush, and was seen by Patrolman Hill of the Parkville station. "What were you doing in there?" Hill demanded.

The man did not reply but ran. Hill following. The fugitive leaped aboard a Church avenue car, but Hill also caught it, so the other man Jumped off and ,ran again. For two blocks he kept the lead then he stopped and said in a-hopeless way, "I guess you got me good this time."

In the police station he gave his name as Frank Dent. Captain Coughlin came in. 'Why, this is Frank England," he said. "Frank, how'd you get down to this?" "I'm broke and hungry and I did it to get something to pawn for food," said England, and he wept.

In his pockets were a few pieces of jewelry which Mrs. Holland said were her property. England was locked up on a charge of robbery.

In 1905 Frank England, a Brooklyn trolley conductor, had a day off. He went to the Gravesend racetrack. His entire capital on arriving there was 75 cents. He bet it on a race with one of the cheap field bookmakers. He won bet his winnings won again and so on through the afternoon. He went home with several hundred dollars.

He resigned his job with the B. R. T. next day, and in a month was recognized as one of the most daring plungers on the eastern racetracks. His fortune soon estimated $250,000, run up from that original 75 cents.

He invested in real estate. A house at 291 Cumberland street was pur

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chased and deeded to his wife. His family lived there in luxury. At Saratoga that summer he won $30,000 on Schoolmaster. Next he flattened the purses of the bookmakers in Washington. So lucky did he become that it was suspected he was betting on fixed races and detectives were set to watch him. He laughed at first, saying: "I never spoke to a jocked in my life and I don't want to. I get information about the work of horses in my own way."

England planned to retire from the betting ring and devote the rest of his life to his family, but the gambling craze was too strong for him. He still was on the top wave of prosperity when racing: got its death blow In this state. Other tracks were open and he turned to them, but in recent years his luck turned. Gradually he lost everything. He said when arrested he was homeless. What had become of his family he would not say.

ABUSING WIRELESS SYSTEM.

So many falBe messages have been received by wireless at Lloyd's of late that steps are now being taken to remedy this evil. One proposal Is that all ships equipped with radiotelegraphic apparatus should be made to report "All well" once or twice every twenty-four hours, while another suggestion is that each of them should have a secret password, known only to their captain and the chief of wireless stations.

The result of the scares Is not only a good deal of unnecessary anxiety, but heavy loss to underwriters, who are, In fact, beginning to doubt the accuracy of serious messages. For instance, In the belief that the news of the foundering of the Empress of Ireland was a recurrence of recent canards, the overdue market at Lloyd's was found willing to write the risk of total loss at the nominal figure of two guineas per cent, at which a fairly large business "was done, with the result, of course, that a heavy liability was incurred.

A few weeks ago a German steamer was reported abandoned in the Bay of Biscay, and reinsurances were effected at eighty guineas per cent, but it subsequently transpired that she had gone to the assistance of a vessel in distress. Another case was that of the Pacific Mail company's liner

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Siberia, which was said to have stranded between Yokohama and Hongkong, but which was all the time safe in port. That misleading message cost underwriters about £20,000.

Some Financial Difference. She—I haJve set my heart on a wedding trip around the world.

He—I thought you had set it on marrying me.—Philadelphia Ledger.

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NEW YORK TO CALL COPSBYPUSH BUTTONS

Novel Plan To Be Tried By Whioh Any Citizen May Signal for a

Policeman.

NEW YORK, Oct 17.—Pueh a button and call police. This is the very newest, not to say oddest, development in the effort to make New York's police force the most efficient In the .world. This new method of summoning the guardians of the city's peace is to be Introduced at first in only a. single precinot, but the plan is to extend it eventually all over Manhattan. The system is made possible by the

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They give customers an opportunity to get what is especially desired, when it is to be had. wf

They first .make themselves useful, then valuable, then indispensible, by this sort of attention. With the Long Distance Telephone, the radius of trade can a in in it el Moreover, the volume of business transacted by each firm or individual may be increased without limit. The Long Distance Service makes endless openings for hustlers.

Bell Telephone Service Accessible Tbronghont The Hotel Deming

Receivers Central Union Telephone Company F. H. KISSLING, Manager

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use of green flash lights fixed to iron posts distributed all over the precinct. Formerly these lights could be flashed only by the sergeant on the desk at the police station and were used merely to call in eomo man whom he desired to see. Now, however, any citizen, by pressing a button attached to the telephone boxes in the precinct, can start the lights flashing and summon the nearest officer. The lights, too, will be visible by day as well as by night, it is believed that this new system will combine the advantages of the old "fixed post" system, which required the policeman always to be at one point, with the "patrolling" system, which will allow policemen to move about their beats. There are two possible drawbacks to the system, however, the flrBt being the ubiquitous small boy, who can make life miserable for the officer by continually flashing the lights. As the punishment will be heavy, however, for turning In such a false alarm, little more trouble is anticipated than with lire alarm calls. The other possible flaw In the

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system has to do with crooks one by pressing the button might oall an officer to one end of his beat, wMle his partner was pulling off a Job at the other end. But with the large number of policemen at hand It is thought that the system will work out satisfactorily and that New York will eventually be able to summon policemen as easily as It now does a bell boy in a hotel.

GONE, BUT NOT FOSGOTTEN.

William had not been la the othet world long when George wooed caH: won the promise of his widow. "Do you love me, sweetheart?" asked George. "Yes, dear," cooed the widow. "Better than anybody on earthV persisted he, after the foolish manner el lovers. "Yes,"- she answeredS, "better than: any one on earth but, eGorge, don't ask me about heaven."—Judge.

YOUR HOUSE 16 NOT REALLY ON THE MARKET if it is not advertised in the for sale columns at The Tribune.

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