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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1913)
DEC 11 it 11 multiple switchboard installed by the Bell company plate each sub scriber In position for instant ser vice from any one of the operator on the several boards, the number being duplicated from one board to another. The long distance board is swift and accurate. The mar lines make direct connection whh any telephone In the larger cities or la nearby Nebraska cities a mat ter of almost instant accomplish ment. ALLIANCE NEIGHBOR TO ALL WEST Interesting Story of the Change From An Old Fashioned Phone System to One in Close Touch With the Whole Country Northwestern Nebraska Connected by Copper Wire 3G r L J Who put Alliance, Hex ilutte ro'in ly and all north west era N-jVaslia rext door to Denver, Oheyenn , Oin afca and Kansas City? And brought Alliance 'it of Isola tion Into confidential talking torn rvuntcation with the midwest hurl ness section of the U. S.T Atd really cukIi'. up the I'.lack HllVe n-glon of South liiikoin and capped It Into converaaNonttl famil iarity with up-to-the-ml ml 3 civllm, tioiu And unified this section o.' t!.e eastern slope of the Kockles Into ally and hourly commununtton ot Interests that expedite business and s-oc.tn advancement? It waa aud la the Nebraska Tle pbone company, assocInKd with the American Telephone and Telegraph company. It waa and la this company, with a. bandgrasp on modern, methods and a familiarity with up-to-date equip roe nt that has converted a claptrap, eldfnahloned, make-believe telo phone system Into a "right away satisfaction" for those wtio appreci ate the business and aocln! opportun Ity afforded by being "neighbors" with the "big outside." IE 3G 3G am Alliance and Dox Dutte county have advanced in startling strides In several directions within the past fw years, but no Blngle Instance tan be pointed out with more posi tive assurance or pride than that of the development of the telephone system. Within the past three years the ranchman, the stockgrower, the marketer, the business and the pro fessional man have been placed In Intimate communication with the buyer, the seller, the stock handler, their clients and the firms with which they deal. For it was In July of 1910 that the Dell company took hold of an antiquated local service and through the medium of expending $60,000 cash sucoeeded In wiping It out and replacing It with a system that comparatively lo not excelled In Chicago, Denver or San Francisco. - That . which waa considered In the realms of the Impossible three or four years ago has become an ac complished fact. Referring In this BOOSTER EDI TION to the progressive Bteps tak- innnnn the best city of its jwJl-Auul-'A size m the vorld In ths heart of the agricultural Eden of ths United 8tates, Omaha combines those things whleh make a great olty unusual opportunity and facilities for commercial activity and unsurpassed conditions which make life worth living A home elty In every eenee of the word. OMAHA A COMMERCIAL CITY OF IN TENSE BUSINESS ACTIVITY OMAHA liteenta In bank eaplta Forty-flrst la populatlon- t-learlace. Annual elaarlnr. H0.7J,8 per clearings, tti.otl. Second live-stock and packing-house market of the world. Annual reoelpta, I tTt.OOl head packed an nually, 4,IE,1TI head. Fifth primary grain market of the Unite Rtatts. Annual reoelpta. 51, MS. 100 eushels ship ments. 41.410.100 bushels. Oreaieat oreamery suiter producing- city Ja the .world. ' Aanunl output, 10,000,000 pounds value, IS, 1500,000. Leading market for agricultural Implements. Annual distribution. 11.95,171. The second largest smelter and reducer ef fine rea In the world. Annual output, 110,000.000, Annual manufacturing output, HI7.t7S.4tt. Annual jobbing distribution, 1181,1 tl.tlt. The greatest range horse and 'feeder sheep market In the world. Eleven trunk llnei of railroad oenter In OiiihIir. tapping the richest agricultural auctions of the United States. OMAHA Home City Without An Equal A Home for Everybody OMAHA Omaha hae an area ef 14.1 square miles. Omaha hae no slums, no tenement districts. Omuha hae the third loweat death rate of the t itles Of the Tnlted States. Omaha has the lowest Infant death rate of , the cities of the United States. Omaha has thirty-four public schools and a hlKh school, the later costing $1,250,000. Omaha has ten parochial schools. Omaha has ninety-nine churches ef every denomination. Omaha has the heat paved streets 110 miles of permanent streets. Omaha Is the fourth city of the Union with a commission form of government. Omaha owns Its water works plant, serving 14.000 families and valued at 11,600.000. Omaha has thirteen parka and twenty-four miles of drives. OMAHA OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES AND ADVANTAGES FOR YOU. THE PLACE FOR THE MAN WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO WORK, BUT NO PLACE FOR THE LOAFER. " ' FOR ANT INFORMATION ADDRESS DUREAU OF PUBLICITY, COMMERCIAL CLUB OF OMAHA en for the general advancement and betterment of business and social conditions In Alliance, no more dis tinctive example of direct onward movement can be cited than, that shown in obliterating an old ram- sname telephone system and the substitution of an up-to-date com plete exchange and ramifications tha' put the bigger cities lust the fence" and make the man uo In tne Black Hills of South Dakota the neighbor of northwestern Nebraska n. the Denver business man and the Omaha stock buyer. It required faith and canital to create the new system- faith in the luiure or this wonderful eastern slope with its vast ' agricultural and business possibilities and capital that consisted not only of cash, btr a willingness to Invest it in the lat ent word In telephone communica tion. This faith and caDltal me prise asuets of the Bell com pany m taking hold of the western iNeDrasxa situation. It was faith ana capital calculated to meet the antagonism of a. few who did not understand the amount of invest ment and energy reuulred. and fan. unj oi Dunuing xor tne future. tne old Independent system w:is very well In its way. but its wav. :i the older patrons of the line lnthe early years of 1900 remember, led principally to "Nowhere" and wa3 the occasion for the habit of using vari-coiorea language. The system was owned by independents and it was just enough independent in its methods of operation as to be whol ly and completely Independent of the foot that Box Butte county citi zens nave a wide range of daily business to transact by long dis tance communication. In fact, it is stated that the inde pendent system of long distance, be fore the taking over by the Bell company, was entirely perfect. It had no troubles and required no "trouble shooters." It was much like the man who never worrld about ingrown toenails because he had, fortunately In this respect, been born without feet. It summed up to this: there waa no long dis tance communication, the prime as set of a telephone system which means to faithfully serve the man on the range as well as the man in the city who has outBlde business Interests. It was impossible with the old grounded system that work ed on old fashioned batteries. In some ways the old system was in expensive much the same as the first bicycle was less expensive than the modern motorcycle with its fire- shooting, ground-covering improvements. The Bell company determined to give this section of the eastern slope a service that would be unriv alled in any section of the country. It required capital and the capital was invested. Alliance really had been Isolated. Except for a ground ed line to Crawford and an iron line to ScoUsbluff, Alliance might about as well have been a village with. a Grand Llama on the ranges of the Himalaya mountains. With the absorption of the Alli ance system the Bell company took over the Bridgeport and Sidney sys tems and invaded the Black Hills region. Then came a surpassing record in establishing long distance communication and improving the lo cal service. The old system was ap praised for what It might be worth to a company that Intended to makft things modern, and the result of that appraisement can be summed up very tersely in the words SO MUCH JUNK. First of all came the tearing out of the grounded lines and the crea tion of an all-metallic circuit. This involving copper wiring and a cable system with multiple switchboards. the duplicates of which cannot be found outside the larger cities. "Except In size, Chicago' can't touch the Alliance system," recent ly declared a telephone expert who has visited the majority of the big exohanges In the country. With the introduction of the new system came Immediate and better satisfaction to pttrons. Formerly, in order to talk any distance, the home subscriber must go to the cen tral office. Today the perfection of the system gives any tel p!iun us er in the city or country the oppor tunny or sitting down quietly at home and talking on business or sc cial matters with the man in Oma ha, Denver, Kansas City, Cheyen?ie, or any other point within or lor some distance outside of the ruliu prescribed by thene pointa. Persons in Alliance are tn'king every day on business mitteit to Kansas City, Denver, Cheyenne and Omaha. Where formerly the Dead- wood, S. D., district and the BUck Hills were isolated, there is now constant communication. It was a change from a makeshift exchange to one that is as complete as all the recent inventions and improvement can make It. To com pletely describe the new exchange that has given Alliance a wonderful service, would be to enter into technicalities. Suffice to say, the Four big trunk cables enter tte Alliance exchange. These carry each from 200 to 450 lines. These) lines are so connected that tke numbers of any particular subscrib er outside of a party line can be changed to any. other porvca or. the same system and tne n'inHer be kept the came. The avs-tem Is operated on big storage batteries, which are charged through one of the most expensive machines known, directly from tne AU'f-irt.e lignili. and pewer plant. So complete are the details that the wire chief can test out each separ ate subscriber's line and instantly locate any trouble tha may occur. . This completeness in detail ex tends itself to the ringing system, a small dynamo furnishing the Juice" for this, with an alternat ing motor and generator that miy be operated from storage oaueries In event of being cut off from tke IockI power plant. Thus ail pat rons are insured of a regular and satisfactory srevice. From the standpoint of invest ment made in the new system ad service given, the rates of the com pany are lower comparatively tham thotte charged by the out independ ent owners. Each subscriber is giv en all the advantage of being ou a system that extends everywhere. Out to what were formerly the most Isolated of country villages lnte the heart of the biggest cities. There are now approximately IOCS subscribers on the Alliance system. The "party line" is being rapidly wiped out, and of this llet or pat rons only about 1 50 are on party tines. There are about 860 sub scribers in the city of Alliance and thlB proportion holds good in Hem Ingford, Crawford, Bridgeport, Scottsbluff, Sidney end all of ths . other towns of the eastern slope. Under the local management of C. A. Ourrie the exchange is belac developed to bring about even great er efficiency. No change that may "o to the making of an Ideal sy? leii is neglected. The complaint of a subscriber is taken as the dareot incentive for a thorough lnveatiign tion of whatever phase of dissatis faction may be presented Despite the fact that some pf the country Unes are on the grounded circuit, the excellent connections possible in the central office make long distance conversations a pleas ure. The Bell Telephone company has through its accomplishment In Alli ance and Box Butte county become one of the best boosters hat west ern Nebraska can boast of. It wfll pay you to advertise your goods la The Alliance Herald. r vwwwsssvwwwwvv fn ff"ffu J MM i Y Y R WIBK There is more work and worry attached to gasoline and coal and IT COSTS YOU MORE When the housewife irons with gasoline or coal 200 to 300 ex tra steps the heat and extra work make her old before her time .... ...... When she irons with electricity, she saves steps, half the price of fuel and remains cool and rested THERE'S A DIFFERENCE WORTH TRYING aeVeeV, Dolt Cheaper and Better Electrically i 5 Apply at City Hall for Rates Modern invention has brought electricity into the home as a labor saver a means of conven ience for quick and efficient housework. . . . . . . . Municipal electric power in Alli ance has placed electricity within the reach of all at prices cheaper than gasoline or coal a demon stration of the many electrically operated labor-saving devices will convince you that electricity is cheaper IT IS WORTH INVESTIGATING The cheapest help for your Home, Kitchen and Laundry CLARE A. DOW Alliance Electrical Department ggiJS