STRUGGLES AT TELEPHONE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 18 October 1913, Page 4

STRUGGLES AT TELEPHONE.

THE TRANSITION STAGE. Ting-a-ling-a-ling I "Central? . . . Numbor 0577 i pleasaf, ~ , Tea, 0577." "What's thai—not the number i welLj its tile only number on the list. Eh [J Automatio number? No, there's eutomatio number on the list." " Pleaso wait, and I'll give you tii3; automatio number," says a polite butt irritating female voice through the instrument. Five, all, 6flvon seconds elapse. "Yes—l'm here.* "The automatio number i# 577—please*} take a note." "AH right, but give m« 677 auto*, matic pleaso I" Seven, eight, nine eeconds elapse,-, and then an alternating longthv buzi; in tho car. After all that trouble tho. required number is engaged. The above is simply ivhat many sub* scribers have to endure at present. Th«. trouble is that it seems, to be unavoidable. As subscribers aro given an ajitoaatio installation tlliey are with a new .numbor, but as a new telephone.list cannot be printed even] week or so (though loose fiheets_ witnl alterations and additions aro issued once a month and often thrown away) ( the oorrect number of the new automatio connections is not available except by an actual call to the exchange when something like the foregoing disw loguo Qia b to bo fiono through.