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- THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1922. i VY PLANES LOSE |Punch the Dial, Get Your Number;}:.': ot ita it the average talkative woman Is the fact that you can talk five minutes or an hour and there won't be a call for spells a venture equal to an exploring |another nickle. There doesn't seem to Simple Mechanical Contri tap tae lr Pat so cee] ce cute rome onal D DETROIT FLYER] Simple Mechanical Contrivance |: IN CURTISS DERBY leut. A. W. Gorton in TR-1 Averages 112.65 Miles an Hour. GSUSY tricity or machinery, such a visit » ‘ “translator frame,” “insulator,""| phone to a Pennsylvania number will ; Will Make Phoning Easy im N. Y.Jirrs" tonic" Tesgone te pa] acres i tas ae Yr metres," "energize," ‘disks,’ “mag-|he 18 concerned. The Pennsylvania = SSS= = neto'’—and ahe jumbles it all togettrer | Central Office, however, has had to and makes hash. meet this difficulty. And, for this purpose, sev other complicated apparati have been Installed. The purpose of the dial apparatus is to send electrical impulses over the wires to this intricate apparatus at the central office. Here you will ses row upon row and bank upon bagk of tiny switches, relays and other de- vices which get into action when the subscriber begins to dial his number. Each subsériber has his or her own] This machine switching apparatus little apparatus in a silent little place]in the Pennsylvania office is motor on a select little row. But the brains|driven, The electrical power required of the whole affair rest In a small|for thls purpose and for signalling re- machine which is called the sender. |auirements is supplied from storage This registers the dial impulses and] batteries. In the basement of the controls all the succeeding operations | telephone centre on 86th Street is an of the apparatus in completing the|immense cable room. Here is a maze call. And these succeeding opera-|of cables which bewilder one, if one is tions are ad infinitum although when|not already bewildered by the confus- you send your number over the dial]ing operations going on on the fourth you get your number right away, and fifth floors. There are men in the central office who can tell by looking at little lights I. Miller Styles for October If, when you are calling from a Pennsylvania ‘phone, the line is husy, you will be sent back a busy signal, a rapid “buzz, buzz, buzk."" Otherwine you will get. Your party immediately. Just one of the many slip- pers at $8.50 now in vogue. oe $850 Styles in Patent Leather, Calfskin, Satins and com- binations. id One of the October Styles at $8 50 % TROIT, Oct. 9—~Of the ten ted States seaplanes starting In erday’s 160-mile derby for the ss Marine Flying Trophy a h prizes of 2/300, only two finished. crashed in a coal yard, one cap- din Lake St, Clair and six we! bled by minor accidents. foe of the pilots was injured. he race was won by a rank ot r so far as the dope of the wis Many original effects are obtainable at $10, together. But the main thing for the average es wi i rned, The little r ‘ 3 aypancd 5-1 hed bash ‘ove . Beare on the boards in front of them if you| Pennsylvania telephone user to re- of course, with the simple Fry Lawrance J-1 had been o Fisst. Machine Switching are getting your right number, There|member is the working of the digl. oked. It breezed across the finish4- models sometimes desired. The large variety provides ne of the Qesober Sites exclusiveness. at $10, The fact that the dial contains ten looking at their voltmeters if the ma-]|finger holds, through wlich the con- chinery is intact along the line. There | secutive numbers from one to nine are girls stationed at respective posts|and twenty-four letters of the alpha- who are there to help you out if you}bet are seen, In the tenth hole Oo” have difficulty in obtaining your|(zero) and the word “‘Operator’' ap- number. pear. If you have any difficulty tn getting your number, you can call “Operato! are other men there who can tell by Jigtime winner, Lieut. A. W. Gor- “Central” to Be in Opera- bn, a pilot with more than 1,200! {jon in “Pennsylvania” jours in the air, is the hero. Detroit io . ik Woind tows. . District Oct. 14—Modus Operandi Described. It was-a heartbreaking finish for jeut. L. H. Sanderson and Lieut. uutledge Irvine They were piloting onverted sister seaplanes of which puch had been expected—Curtiss tor triplanes powered with 400 jorse power Curtiss D-12 engines. A ple plane had established an offi- lal record of 162 miles an hour. Sanderson was leading the field on he eighth and éast lap of the twenty-| has been operated in other cities and le course and was about a mile from | New York will have it eventually all e finish when his gas ran out. He] over the city, towed in. There are primarily two things the irvine, an easy runner-up, landed|average citizen will want to know the coal yard on the fifth lap.]about the new dial telephone. They of the pontoons which lad been} are: (1) How they will work it, and phed to the plane to qualify it] (2) just how it is worked from the this race ripped loose and smashed | central office. ailerons, leaving the plane virtu- Milly without control. ectators saw it suddenly swerve the course over the water, side nk sharply and zoom up and over ind. It was right there that Irvine nonstrated his ability as a pilot. ith only flipper control he half- righted the plane and brought (Fo a fifty-mile landing in the coal| vague “line's busy.” afd. The remaining pontoon andthe] No, That is, if you are telephon-|changes are in large type. ‘This is the ings were smashed and the fuselage|ing from a “Pennsylvania District"| keynote of the dial system of tele- s damaged, but Irvine escaped in-|'phone. If you are telephoning from] phoning. Therefore Murray Hill will bury. any other district the operation on|have the outstanding characters Ne In the nieantime Lieut. David Rit-| your part will be just the same as|MUR. After you have picked up the above the dining table, precludes enhouse, driving a biplane powered| usual. You will have a central|recelver and heard the dial tone, you ‘ ‘ . ith a Wright B-8 220 horse power}answer and get your number that| will place your finger in the hole sacrifice of lights and the detraction pngine, broke a propeller blade while But if you are calling from alalongside of M and turn the dial from dangling appliance cords. ounding the United States cruiser] Pennsylvania station you will have|around to the end. When released it Dubuque, which served as the fur-}to change your tacti will automatically return to its orig- est rylon. His machine nosedived inal position. Then you do the same into Lake st. Clair. with U, followed quickly by R and non-user of electricservice. Your electrical contractor, Lieut. ton’s average speed for} Before you, you will see an ordinary|then 4, 5, 6 and 8, Before you can or any of our representatives, will gladly explain he 160-mfle course was 112.65 miles|telephone—with an additional dial]Say Jack Robinson, you will have it to you in detail. Telephone Stuyvesant 4980, n hour. similar to the illustration on this page. | your number, Lieut. Sanderson's average speed | To set your number, you will have to or the seven laps he flew before his|“eposit your money in the slot and| But while you are saying Jack Rob- cas ran out was 117.8 miles per hour; | hold the receiver to your ear. You|inson, an operation is going on in the or laps two, three and four he| Will then hear a low humming sound, | central office whick {s so intricate and Maveraged 124.60. He won the $300.]known as the dial-tone, which is|delicate that a short history could be Ihe speed which he was developing | ¢au!valent to the operator's ‘Number, | written about it. A visit to the Penn- bn straightaway is indicated by his] Please?" Then suppose you want to| sylvania office on the fourth and fifth for the fourth lap—125.80 miles} °#!! Murray Hill 4568. In the phone] floors of their building at No. 210 hour, He also made the fastest}P0K.' you have noticed and have] West 36th Street will leave the aver- ime for a water lap when he was| therefore been prepared for the shock | age citizen so bewildered he will only med at 122 miles an hour for the| that the first three letters of all ex-\ be too glad to get any kind of service th lap. ‘The experts who expected to get a Ine on the navy team for the Pulit- pr Trophy race were disappointed, br with the exception of Lieut. San- SBerson, who made so magnificent a owing in the cumbersome Curtiss plane, all of the navy’s Pulitzer Mts were climinated before they Hid demonstrate their racing abil- They are Capt. Mulcahy and its. Rittenhouse, Callaway. Brow nd Ensign Williams. ‘The next event on the aviation meet ogramme is the Detrolt News Aerial Trophy race on Thursday. It is or multi-motored airplanes capable of larrying a payload of 800 pounds, and ‘Paving an alr speed greater than 75 jles an hour. The distance {s 267.7 piles, ten times around a closed cir- uit of 25.77 miles. ‘There are only five entries, all from @ United States Army Air Service. he machines are four Martin bomb- irs and one Martin transport. Each powered with twin Liberty 400- jorse power motors. One thing discovered of interest to Styles at this price are quite indistinguishable from the high priced at 1) 50 work of the custom boot: : makers. All leathers and fabrics, colors and combi- nations. One of the October Styles tn Patent Leather at $12 50 By Ruth Snyder. New York's first machine switch- ing telephone central office will be placed in operation in the Pennsyl- vania Central Office District, New New York, next Saturday midnight. Tt is known as the dial system, It Electrify the Home! The first is very simple. The out- standing factor is that there will be no operator to answer your own “voice with a smile’ when you de- Dosit your nickel and pick up the re- ceiver, There will be no one to swear at! no one to ask “number, please,” Ta iA STARCHES TO or to substitute in lieu thereof the THE TELEPHONE I. MILLER 15 West 42nd Street 1554 Broadway Hudson Terminal Open tillo P M Entrance Fulton Street THE floor outlet is especially desir- able in the dining room. It may be placed beneath the dining room table for connection to electric cook- ing appliances, or to the table itself, if it is wired. An electrical supply, independent of the lighting service . Brooklyn Shop 498 Fulton Street, Corner of Bond Our special home wiring pe will interest every This is what you will have to do: The United Electric Light & Power Company 130 East 15th Street 89th Street and.Broadway 146th Street and Broadway Chhis is what it m J —6 hospitals — 1 home for the aged —8 child-caring institutions — 7 Talmud Torahs —5 organizations dealing with —20 community centers i} delinquents — 6 sumnter vacation homes —3 homes for the crippled and —35 societies and organizations deaf helping in various ways —a total of ninety-one organizations combined for economies of operation in one Federation for the Support of Jewish Philan- thropic Societies of New York City. “Write one Check for all Before the 91 institutions of Federation were federated, there were 91 separate “drives” for necessary funds, 91 separate demands on the Jewish citizens of New York. Each drive was for a worthy cause but the waste of time and energy was enormous. ' Now, through Federation, each institution pre- sents its budget to a central finance group. Waste of money and waste of effort in collection is reduced to a minimum. You are asked, each year, to give once for all. This year, more dollars are needed. A million dollars more. The work of the 91 institutions of Federation must go on. Their doors may not be shut to any who ask for help. Help Federation Help the Helpless— Help Raise The shop to which the good gifts come = a sy JEWS TO OPEN INSTITUTE. The initial session of the Jewish In- tute of Religion will open to-day in Temple Israel Community House, Street and Central Park West. ow there wil: arrive from ro of the institute's famous teachers— Frot. I. Elbogen of Berlin and Dr, Felix ries of Koenigsberg. Both are emi- nt Jewish scholars. Jw, 14-3 = ~- 4 a Ia: ’ = +s Eg) 7, é <% UGG = ¢ Ve $ALE SION SO FUN OU NI 2~ TS 1a RE you seek one gift, we _ tinctive and unusual gift. 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