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Bell Telephone Co. ot Penna.
To Spend $25,
573,000 In 1928
Money To Be Used for Expanding Telephone Plant
Throughout the State.
Almost 6 Million
Dollars for Lines in Storm Proof Cable
A total of $25,573,000 is to be
spent by The Bell Telephone Com-
pany of Pennsylvania this year for
expanding the telephone plant
throughout the state, according to
the recently approved budget
figures for that organization an-
nounced today by Leonard H.
Kinnard, President. Practically all
jons of the Commonwealth
where the Bell Company operates
will come in for a share of the
expenditures in prospect.
Although a large portion of the
expenditures will be used for cen-
tral office equipment more than
one-third of the total amount of
money to be spent is for “outside
plant.” This is the equipment and
apparatus outside of the central
offices and includes such items as
poles, crossarms, overhead and un-
derground cables and similar mate-
rial. In round figures this expen-
diture amounts to $10,000,000 for
the state.
Approximately $6,000,000 of this
amount will be spent for storm-
proof cable construction in under-
ground ducts and on pole lines.
The total wire in these cables will
amount to 875,000 miles, or enough |.
to loop the earth fifteen times at
the equator. About ninety-five per
cent of all Bell telephone wire in
the state is now enclosed in cable,
and wires thus protected are not
likely to be damaged and cause
service interruptions due to storms.
It is the policy of the Bell System
to extend the use of storm-proof
cables wherever the volume of busi-
ness makes their installation eco-
nomical.
Some of the outstanding storm-
proof cable jobs that will be added
to the System during 1928 include
the erection of a line between Potts-
ville and Frackville, continuation
of the work on the Pittsburgh-
Charleroi cable, new cable from
Hays Station to McKeesport and
the installation of a section of con-
duit for accommodating additions
to the toll cable that stretches be-
tween Philadelphia and New York
City.
About $2,500,000 is to be spent
for new building construction. This
will include major additions to sev-
eral existing offices and the con-
struction of certain new offices.
“Radcliff” and a central office
for the downtown district are
to be built in Philadelphia, and
“Franklin” and another office, the
location of which has not been de-
termined, are to be constructed
during the coming year in Pitts-
burgh. An expenditure of $300,000
is being set aside for the construec-
tion of the Wilkes-Barre central:
office building and the final work is
to be done on the change from the
manual to the dial type of central
office equipment in Scranton.
Poles for new lines and replace-
ments represent a portion of the
year’s outlay. If the 1928 pole re-
quirements in the state next year
were used to support a new tele-
phone line, it would reach from
Philadelphia to St. Louis.
Telephone engineers have esti-
mated that there will be about 56,-
000 telephones added to the System
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Leonard H. Kinnard i
in the state during the year. In!
arriving at this net figure, they |
predict that in all approximately |
179,000 telephones will be installed !
due to increasing demand for gor-
vice and that about 123,000 will be |
disconnected because of people
moving from one city to another |
and other causes.
The daily average of local tele- |
phone calls in the state during
1927 amounted to 4,500,000. Dur- |
ing 1928 it is estimated that the
local calls will total nearly 5,000,-
000, an increase of about half a
million a day. An average of
278,000 out-of-town calls were
made by telephone users in the
state during 1927. This figure will
also be increased during 1928,
telephone engineers have estimated,
to an average of nearly 300,000 per
day.
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THE GIFT
FROM MOTHER
GLENN
(® by D. J. Walsh.)
OSE GLENN, her young heart
beating fast and hard, paused
at the door of her husband’s old
home. It was a stately portal,
this of the Glenn house, with a lilac
now out of bloom standing on either
corner and a huge brass knocker that
bore the hall-mark of genuine antiquity.
With her hand uplifted, Rose still hes-
itated to send that summoning rat-tav
tat sounding within,
It was a breathless morning and
Rose looked a bit wilted in spite of
her excited flush. She had ridden into
town with the Pratts, who had had a
carful without her. But Mrs. Pratt
had insisted that she accompany them
instead of taking the bus, so, unable
to refuse, she had held the fourth
Pratt baby on her lap all the way. In
consequence her skirt was rumpled
and a lollypop which the third Pratt
baby had been eating had mussed ur
the front of her crisp blouse.
A woman passing stared curiously
at the girl who seemed afraid to an-
nounce herself, and with sudden de-
termination Rose lifted the handle of
the knocker. Almost Instantly, quite
as if she had been peeping from the
window, a woman opened the door.
Rose lifted her dark eyes to the icy
blue ones of her husband's oldest si»
ter, Ada Patchen.
“Oh, good morning!” Ada said.
There was no enthusiasm in her voice.
She did not offer to take the hans
Rose timidly advanced.
Behind the woman on the thresh-
old an inner door cautiously opened,
and a face similar to hers gave A
quick look at the visitor. lose rec-
ognized her husband’s second sister,
Abigail, who lived at home with he
mother, and was unmarried.
“Come in.” Ada Patchen held the
door open far enough to admit Rose's
slender shape. “Come in,” she repeat-
ed and opened the inner door, from
which Abigail’s face had disappeared.
Rose found herself in the family
sitting room in the presence of her
husband’s mother and Abigail. Abi-
gail stood behind her mother’s chair.
There was no welcome in her icy blue
eyes. But into Mother Glenn's face had |
sprung a look of interest. She was
most unlike her daughters, for her |
eyes were dark and the cut of her |
nose spirited. As Rose shyly ad-
vanced Mother Glenn held out her
hand. It was chill, the hand of an
old woman whose circulation is none
too good. Rose grasped the thin fin-
gers with her warm, pulsing ones.
She would have kissed the withered
‘slightly unsteady voice.
.at her attentively.
+, cheek, but she remembered in time
5 | that ‘Glenn's sisters scorned any dem-
onstration of affection, rating it s#
weakness.
Mother Glenn pointed to a chair and
Rose sank into it. Very graceful and
with that little air of distinction
which makes even the plainest hat
and blouse charming, she awaited
some sign on the part of this chilly
interrogative trio of women. Mean-
while there raced through her brain
thoughts, memories, intuitions. These
three women had opposed Rose with
all their might when Hugh Glenn
sought to marry her.
loved him so deeply and been assured
that he loved her, Rose would never
have consented to be his wife, When
afterward his mother and sisters had
failed to accept her, Hugh had refused
to go home without her. For more
than a year he had never set foot in
his old home. Then suddenly Mother
Glenn summoned the young wife into
her presence. “Do as you please
about going,” Hugh had said. She
had thought it over carefully and had
decided to put her own feelings aside
and go for her husband’s sake.
“Rose,” Mother Glenn began in a
Rose looked
“I sent for you
because I wanted to see you. I am
geventy-six years old and my heart is
weak. I may go any time. Hugh is
my youngest child—the youngest of
seven, all gone but three”—some mem-
ory interfered with her train of
thought. “I have a few articles which
I want to give away now while I am
' here to see about it. Then there won’t
be any quarreling about them when
I am gone. Abigail, bring pencil and
paper and write as I tell you.”
Abigail with compressed lips obeyed.
Mother Glenn, playing with the
fringe of her shawl, stared into some
remote vista of her own. At last she
began to speak slowly:
“] want you, Samantha, as my old
est child, to have my rosewood cabi-
net, You have a daughter to pass it
on to when you are done with it—
write that down, Abigail.”
“I have,” snapped Abigail.
“I want you, Abigail, to have my
set of silver spoons that your father
beat out of silver. There are four
dozen of them, all marked with my
initials. They were part of my setting
out when I married Jonas Glenn—
write that down, Abigail.
Abigail looked at her mother, her
dps opening to speak.
“Write that down, Abigail,” re-
peated her mother and Abigail wrote
in silence.
“I want my daughter Emmeline” —
Mother Glenn paused uncertainly.
“No! Emmeline is gone. I remem-
per.” She touched her forehead.
“Hugh! I want my son Hugh to
have my one diamond ring. I want—
I want my son Hugh's wife—— Are
you writing what I tell you, Abigail 2—
J want Rose Glenn to have the gold
luster pitcher that stands over there
on the rosewood cabinet.”
Rose gave a gasp of astonishment.
Her glance went to the vessel in ques-
tion. A ray of suniight filtering
through the curtains fell upon it, mak-
ing it gleam like a jewel. Knowing
something about pottery, she was well
able to appreciate the exquisite thing.
And it was to be hers. How she woul?
love and cherish it—always!
Conscious of a strange siience
about her, she turned and saw two
pairs of icy-blue eyes fixed upon her
in bitter anger. The color fled from
her face and for an instant she almost
lost her composure. Then, rising, she
stood before the old woman.
“Dear Mother Glenn,” she said,
very, very gently. “I thank you for
your gift, I'd love to take it just be-
cause you wish me to have it—but I
can’t. Please don’t insist upon my
having tl.c luster pitcher. Anything
else, any small thing, I will accept—
but not that.”
The old woman stared at the young
one unbelieving. Samantha Patchen
rustled in her black taffeta, Abigal
studied the paper before her.
“I suppose the pitcher is priceless.
That’s why I gave it to you,” Mothe»
Glenn said at last.
“I know—I understand,” murmured
Rose. She shook her head and
smiled faintly.
“Well—well—well,” Mother Glenn
said. Her head drooped, then lifted.
She was laughing. “I guess my Son
knew what he was about when he got:
you,” she said. “Now take off you»
hat and stay to lunch.”
it was late afternoon when Rose
~eached home. Hugh sat on the steps
waiting for her, He looked as if he
had been anxious.
“Well, how did you get along?’ he
asked as he kissed her.
“Fine, Hugh! I like your mother.
She sent you this”—she gave him the
ring.
He looknd at it, then at the bright
race before him.
“I understand what she wanted you
for,” he said. “Well—since they have
recognized you I will go and see them,
We will both go—tell me what hap-
pened.”
Rose told him about her visit.
*Didn’t she give you anything?”
fAugh asked when she had finished.
Rose nodded.
“Oh, yes! I shall treasure it al-
ways. For I know what it meant,
coming from her with her repressed
nature, her shut heart—"
“What is it, dear?”
Rose cuddled against
shoulder.
“She kissed me—right before Abi-
#ail and Samantha,” she said, with a
his hard
. laugh.
First to Circle Globe
Under American Flag
The first circumnavigation c€ the
Zlobe under the American flag was
completed in 1790, In 1787 a syndi-
cate of ‘Boston merchants, headed by
Charles Bulfinch, sent out Capt. John
Kendrick with the Columbia, and
Capt. Robert Gray with the brig Lady
Washington, to engage in the new and
i promising North Pacific fur trade.
Exchanging commands in July, Cap-
tain Gray, with the first American ship
and cargo in Pacific commerce, sailed
the Columbia back to Boston via
China, arriving in 1790. The Boston
merchants directed a second voyage
and Captain Gray in the Columbia re-
- turned to the North Pacific, arriving
If she had not
at Clayoquot sound, June 5, 1791.
He wintered there and built the Ad-
venturer, the first American ship to be
built on the Pacific. In the spring of
1792 he set out again in the Columbia
and it was on this voyage that he dis-
covered the Columbia river, giving it
that name in honor of his vessel.—
Kansas City Times.
Had a Precedent
He was an elder of his kirk in a
small Scottish town, and had corsult-
ed a specialist about his health, Told
that he had a floating kidney he was
much disturbed, for the complaint had
all the terror of mystery.
He went to the minister of his
church yith a request that the prayers
of the congregation might be offered.
“] don’t know,” said the minister.
“I'm afraid that at the mention of
floating kidney the congregation
might laugh.”
“I see nothing to laugh at,” replied
the sufferer. “It was only last Sab-
bath that you prayed for loose livers.”
Opportunity for Meditation
Here's one of Uncle Joe Cannon's
stories:
An old circuit rider of Illinois loved
nunting game as well ag souls and he
could not always forget his sport
when engaged in’ the divine calling.
One morning as he proceeded to the
camp meeting he saw signs of a fox
and set a trap where he could keep
his eye on it during the sermon. While
preaching he saw the trap fall. With-
out changing the sing-song tone of
his delivery, he sald:
“Brethren, keep you minds on the
text while I go out and kill that fox.”
Clash of Wits
While Horace Mann, the famous ed-
ucator, was sitting in his study one
day an insane mana rushed into the
room and challenged him to fight.
“My dear fellow,” replied Mr. Mann,
“it would give me great pleasure to
accommodate you but I can’t do it, the
odds are unfair, I am a Mann by
name and a man by nature—that’s
two against one.”
“Oh, come ahead!” the insane man
answered. “I am a man and a man
beside mygelf. Let us four have a
fight.”—PBoston Transeript.
The Business
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Outlook for 1928
he business of production and distribution has
become more scientific, more orderly, therefore
more]stable and less subject to violent fluctua-
The reason that many lines of endeavor fail to
show proper returns is found in too great output and
too many Distributors. Two Mills and two Distribu-
tors where one would fill the need.
Commodity prices are going down.
growing more efficient. Interest rates are lower.
These are signs of moderate business and prob-
ably that is what we may look for next year.
(88 The era of Panics, of Booms and Depressions is
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HURRYING THE HEART.
Hurry appears to be one of the
major interests of civilization,” said
Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of
Health today. To get to a place
salfely or to do a job properly are no
longer the first and only considera-
tions. In addition everyone must see
how quickly he can arrive and how
fast the job can be done.
“And while this driving force of
speed is largely responsible for many
of today’s great inventions, it is al-
most trite to add that time is not to
be had in any greater quantity than
before. Indeed, quite on the con-
trary, the more time that is left for
leisure, the less leisurely any of us
become. It is one of nature's little
tricks and paradoxes.
| “The whole thing would be a huge
i joke were it not for the fact that a
; ‘joker’ is concealed within it. And
"it is this joker that interests the pub-
i lic health official. The joker is heart
| trouble.
| “For example the Englishman in-
quired of a panting American friend,
who with an expression of achieve-
ment had caught the 5:15 train, “Why
all the hurry?’ To which the ex-
hausted acquaintance answered: ‘I
saved twenty minutes. The next
train doesn’t leave until 5:35.” And
i what are you going to do with the
‘twenty minutes you saved?’ asked
the Englishman. The fast breathing
individual answered him in a most
unexpected and dramatic way. He
dropped his head, gasped and forth-
with died!
| “And thereby hangs the moral of
this talk. Though remarkable strides
'have been made in the mechanical
{ world, the human body remains the
{ same machine it always was. It has
| not changed its model or substituted
ynew parts. It was definitely made
| for one purpose namely, to live; and
to live according to specified and def-
'inite rules.
“While it has geared itself, by rea-
son of its amazing adaptability, to
the swift pace Bf today’s Jife, it
still remains fundamentally the same
old body; and consequently possesses
the limitations set down for it in
the original model. Men and women
therefore, should give some serious
thought to this fact, which is 'so
painfully evident to vital statisti-
cians, public health people and be-
reaved relatives.
“Speed and the absurd value placed
on time that send middle age or more
running like a school boy to catch a
trolley or a train is foolish and may
be deadly.
“The same speed that pushes a
man into twelve hours of hard and
exacting work and then leads him in-
to amusements that rob him of his
proper sleep is equally dangerous.
“Speed that does not permit a per-
son time enough to go to the doctor
for an anuual physical examination
once a year and to the dentist twice
a year is also senseless.
“Speed that rushes to make dollars
and limits life is likely to run off the
track when he least expects it.
“Speed that does not allow one to
live according to the fixed rules and
laws of nature destroys life.
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“What is the antidote? Simply
Hus, Take time to take time—and
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Tomato Minus Seeds Produced.
After five years’ of experimenting,
D. G. Klassen, Newton, Kan., green-
house proprietor, has perfected a
seedless tomato that has won the
recognition and interest of the horti-
cultural world.
Klassen’s efforts interested the
late Luther Burbank only slightly,
He offered Klassen a small amount
of money for his secret. However,
the Kansas man continued his ef-
forts to perfect a seedless plant.
Now prominent nurserymen through-
out the country are beseiging him
with tempting offers.
Before entering the greenhouse
business Klassen was engaged in
truck farming, where he experiment-
ed with the watermelon. He told a
reporter he did succeed in creating
the seedless watermelon of ‘a good
flavor, but that he did not push the
project because the watermelon sea-
son was too short to be profitable.
In 1919 he sold his truck farm, and
opened a small greenhouse in‘ New-
ton, where he cultivated vegetables
for the local market. Two years lat-
er Klassen erected a larger. green-
house and used the surrounding
soil for tree experimentation.
Among the seedless tomato plants
in his greenhouse today is one five
years old that is thirty-seven feet in
length. The largest tomato from this
vine lacked one ounce of weighing
four pounds. Hanging baskets are
placed to protcet them.
Mr. Klassen said he had not yet
reached his ideal.
‘I want to make it sweeter and
more perfect in its smoothness.”
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Anchorage, Alaska.—Eleven par~
ties of well-equipped hunters from:
many places in the world left here
for the spruce and birch forests on:
Kenai peninsula where dwell the ant--
lered monarchs of the silent bogans—-
moose. Calling or stalking in the
moist, dark woods of the Far North,
experienced and thoughtful guides:
are necessary, for the wise old bulls:
of the muskegs offer hunters a mas-
ter defense of caution, wariness, ol--
factory and auditory nerve action and!
fast foot work.
The inevitable call, answered by
red-blooded men in early autumn, is
each season leading them farther in-
to the north wilderness, yet in spite
of the continued hunting these huge
animals with queer shovel-shaped
antlers are surviving and increasing
after a century of slaughter.
In Alaska is found the largest bulls
of the species and in Kenai penin-
sula, about eighty miles northwest of
her, a hunter is certain to obtain
choice trophies. Moose have been in-
creasing in other parts of Alaska al-
Hunt Alaskan Moose.
S0.
Last year the record antlers taken
from Alaska had a 72-inch spread
with perfect symmetry.