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The. new pole line, fs marine work; and BY | | im. Added to the ,000 unit at the aggregate amounts to three-quarters ¢ first telephone exchange 8¢ 1. But they w not connected. by Long Before Puget Sound knew what ft to talk from one town to another Eastern Washington was supplied with Long Distance lines through the enterprise of the Washington. B. Hopkins, who in 1884 began converting abandoned army raph wires into telephone circuits connecting Colfax, Almota, Walla Walla, Spokane Falls and other places. ed aad ~~ The beginning of the Tacoma-Seattle connection was a line run from Tacoma to Puyallup in 1887 to accommodate the hop grow: ers of the valley who needed to keep in close touch with their brokers. It was almost immediately continued to Sumner, La In 1888 it was extended along wagon roads and short cuts from Sumner to Seattle, establishing the {nitlal telephone con- ine’ ot tihe ag)! Tussotates Gus taleancnesvonta: foloeasootas nection between the two. This first wire Ied the way to such Have you ever wondered how it is possible to tele- pletion of a series of Long Distance improvements from Third neptune ane erent bei ty have today by means /o6/ths phone from Seattle to Tacoma for, but twenty-five Avenue a Street, Seattle, to the south limits of Tacoma te hernedpie or te ah ne elcnoet ualversn! 5ee OC te ae hone from Ses at an aggregate cost of about three quarters of a million dollars. Lt ad dante a'r ath’ bebe or thirty cents? The constru permanent character known to tele DSR UH Ere, wes} 750 telephones in alllof Washington. Now in a the single month of May this year that many were added in i Tacoma and Seattle combined Between eight and nine thousand miles of wire now engineertr connect the Seattle Telephone Building at Third Ave- nue and Seneca Street with the Tacoma Main Build- ing at Eleventh and Fawcett. The latest improvement in the conveyance of across intervening country ana the distance by departing from * ctloable {route Remarkable as was the achiéyem when the first wire was completed for conversation from Tacom through to Seattle, the construction was simple, indeed. Poles twenty-five feet long were | ys and following the most direct p © the wires in the new cable placed openly on cross arms i ; ; such as one usually portrays in his mental picture of a tele- stRean ahlnte 2 speech from city to city has become available in a phone polo—thirty cross arms would be required to carry them, : tei t ae to the ath to support the one iron wire held in telephone cable just completed and put into service ten wires to on arm according to standard practice, And since rackets. That was all there was to it. re the maximum number nowadays placed on But now, when you talk from one city to the other, you are three fully-laden pole-lines of open utilizing the inventive genius, engineering achievement and con over the shortest possible land route at an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars. 6 pole, it would req , : : : wire to provide many ¢ uits as are in this one compact cable. struction skill which represent the fruits of the intervening years The Demand of Today Is Sanitation When today you talk with friend or business cus- of development. For tho overhead portion of the new telephone A 4 A tomer in the neighboring city your words traverse a The atretch. of: telophone cable under grotind’from the Seattlu cable poles were placed much as they were thirty-seven years Your dentist has nothing to sell but service. Re- circuit in this new cable extending underground, Building to Renton Junction has been in use more ago, but with the aid of maahinery and power which would con- stitute a story of itself. an approximate cost of $200,000 member this and then you will and can select your underwater and overhead all the way from one Long than two years. It was built j j i istance ice . oy", in 1922. Under the business strec thence via Georgetown and - Peete ep eetor: mavens ae pd wi ys ne te Kast Marginal Way, and along the Pacific Highway, it carries All of this investment and construction are directed toward y At the terminating points new apparatus—intricate {he east and south fong distance circuits providing the seimplest, cheapest, ‘and’ most: efficlant -methoaaan I claim cleanliness and courtesy in service should marvel of scientific achieyement—has been installed At the Junction, the circuits until recently connected with the Soran unteatib from Tacoma to Seattle and from Seattle te i is wi years in the central offices to give the highest degree of old lead that was built in 1904, and followed the Northorn Pacific ad dco : be considered. Then couple this with years of ex- gtiensy tt alae TaddeeTy channalboteconverkaten HR CabWRS 46 bi helnt tithendt: sallea Metis: Nehence Westaied “aut aD foto hone offers the only means of reciprocal comm aa perience and skill and you are getting the highest : ion, of Immediate question and answer, of inquiry and reply, nine miles more to the Long Distance office in ‘Tacoma. The from home or business desk or hotel room to any PV reel PA amie yak ar ohog ea ga Alpmetion and? contend ton, telephone you may call in the nearby city. ‘The cost of service Is surprisingly small, The conyentence {9 aati i ; Now, just north of the Junction bridge, these samo circuits ans = brat preratict ig | Are you familiar with how little it costs to use this out of Seattle rise from under the ground and connect with the CUNSSSUTA Si Teen MIt R he Payine of hours: AND aca known type of dentistry. ivi ighi ali ya / ‘ rompt transmission of business, tho fostering of friendship, I am giving you this high quality at a price you service? How easy it is to command? How much newly-built cable and more direct lead, ‘By this recent connection Re Ce ee NN ote ‘i nana iN Ree tt can afford. it save How satisfying is the spoken message and the entiro, distanco from the Seattle Telephone, Building to Tacoma health and even the eaving of life Main Building ts but 80.6 miles, o saving of eight and one-half the immediate answer? Make yourself familiar with how easy it is to call by Lone t A z miles. From Third and Seneca to the Renton Junction bridge is 4 3 pec aire yf < . Volume helps me make my prices attractive and Do you appreciate that the cheapest, most conven- ° 41,9 milon and from there over thin new route It ts 18.7 milos, —_Diat@nee. How satisfactory you wil find It, how economical my reputation and name insure you dependable work. ient, most complete and quickest means of communi- Immediately west of Kent, and again immediately west of For detnlts, refer to your Telenhone Directory, or call Long Distance, The Pacific Telephone and Telesranh Company. cating to Tacoma is by the telephone? Auburn, branches lead to those two cltles which now gain thelr (Quality Plates $15.00 Crowns ... 5.00 PR eele Bridgework . 5.00 “ARG YWy LY FREE EXAMINATION DR. J. T. WILSON «ecb iak ga. Stringi tl New Telephon Imbedding It Under th ( ting the T i Stringing the New Telephone mbeddin; Inder the onned! Ww ‘ities a side proms a ) ‘ec’ Over Bartell's Drug Store—Economy Market Bldg. i 4 ler the onnecting the Two Cities and the Outside Across the Highline @he Most Direct Land Cable, Waterway, ® World. Road, Route,