14 HARRISBURG NOW HUNDRED AMERICAN CITIES WITH A UTOMA V- " J v * ' *-V : f: • W : a : ..... .. "Without a single hitch and In less %han five minutes' time the Cumber land Valley Telephone Company of Pennsylvania at 10.30 o'clock Saturday night "cut over" from the manual to the automatic system, and Harrisburg Is now one of more than a hundred cities in the United States with auto matic telephone service. Henry M. Tracy, in the presence of ■Cumberland Valley Telephone officials and a number of representative citi zens, put the first call through the new exchange at 10.3 3 o'clock. Mr. Tracy dialed the office of Mayor Ezra S. Aleals and said: Mayor Meals, this is Mr. Tracy, of the Cumberland Valley Tele phono Company. This is the first public message passed through our new automatic telephone ex change. This message is to advise you that the automatic telephone, the latest development In tele phony, is now in actual operation, and we hope will be a prominent factor in making this city a bigger, greater and better Harrisburg. Mayor Offers Congratulations Mayor Meals responded: _ As president of the Cumberland Valley Telephone Qompany of Pennsylvania I congratulate you and the officers of your company upon the installation of the auto matic telephone. The great civic awakening now under way is bound to accomplish much good for our city. The new reorganized Chamber of Commerce has opened the way; the automatic telephone is a close second: the new hotel project, Capitol Park extension and new high school will all soon follow in this progressive move ment. My sincere wish is that the use of the dial may more closely xinite all our citizens into one great homogeneous family. Busy Click Bogtfts Following the conversation between "♦he Mayor and the Cumberland Valley I Quick Money I I Last year $30,000,000 changed hands through • WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFERS Without worry, red tape or risk 1,200,000 people were convenienced with quick money. 8 Not a dollar was lost. Not a moment was I wasted. A great service at trifling cost. I L g THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. 1 ■tKi.waa '■Kfirmt We put it up to of Dentists Long before SENRECO was offered fo you we submitted it to hundreds of dentists, requesting that they put it to every test. Told them that we believed Senreco to be an unusually good dentifrice, especially as to its cleansing qualities and its remedial action on sore, soft, bleeding gums; in the treatment °f Pyorrhea, etc. Submitted the formula and asked them their opinion. They tested Senreco from every angle; some going even so far as to make a chernical analysis— Ai\d TKivi j£|f||g] With practically one accord—said: "Senreco appeals to me more than any dentifrice / have ever teen." "I cannot tay too much for Senreco. It's one of the best I haveuted.""!can recommend Senreco a* the beet." "Maket the teeth glhttn and is free from injurious ingredients, including pumice and grit." "/ am in deed glad to get a tooth paste that does the work." "Congratulate you on formulating a dentifrice that gioes one a new idea of mouth cleanliness, etc. 90 iThese quotations are from the dentists' reports. Originate on file at our office.) With euch endorsements from the men who hnowt why not go to your dealer today and get a tube of SENRECO —2sc. Keep your icetS REALLY CLEAN, and protect yourself against Pyorrhea and decay• . . ??. py °S "The Most General Disease in the World" together With a liberal trtal size tube of SENRECO will be mailed you for 4c in stamps. The Sentanel Remedies Co., Inc. Dept. B t Masonic Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio. t MONDAY EVENING, Telephone president the new auto matic "-vchange was thrown open to the ] f ic. Within a few moments hundi .s of the Cumberland Valley's subscribers had discovered the old manual system was a thing ofthe past and soon the click of selectors and connectors completing connectlngs was heard on tho equipment. A remarkable feature of the cut over from the engineering viewpoint was that only two cases of trouble were found after the cut-over, trouble that was present on the old manual system but not so easily detected as on the new. All Numbers Changed All the old manual directories were replaced with new automatic direct ories Saturday, every number having been changed in Harrisburg and Steel ton. It Is expected by the company officials that "information" will be kept busy for a day or Ho straighten ing out kinks arising from inexperi ence In the use of tho dial, but a special corps oi" men will be busy this week Instructing all subscribers. Granville S. Herbert, engineer in charge of the cut-over, was highly complimented by President Tracy for tho efficiency with which his force handled the big job. Mr. Herbert In an Interview described the improve ments made to both tho inside and outside plant equipment during the last eight months. Thousands on Improvements "The inside plant," explained Mr. Herbert, "is the very latest type de signed and was installed by the Auto matic Electric Company, of Chicago. It is the same typo of apparatus that is in use in more than a hundred cities of the United States and adopted by nine loreign governments. "The main exchange Is designed to handle ten thousand lines and tho. equipment is so arranged that addi tional exchanges can be installed in other parts of the city, each having a capacity of ten thousand mora lines. One of the attractive features of the automatic service from the subscribers' standpoint is that when additional ex changes are installed It does not im pair the service in any way. "To handle the long distance busi ness a new four-position toll board has been installed. This board was es pecially designed with the view to giv ing the very best possible transmission. It is also designed for automatic toll calling, which means that the Harris burg operator by use of the dial can automatically switch through the vari ous towns in making a connection to a distant point. "New and modern testing, in . formation and wire chief dasks have also been installed. "The main cable distributing frame is of the very latest type designed and marketed by tho Automatic Electric Company and is the latest word In this type of apparatus. *IOO,OOO On Outside Plant "To Insure good transmission and service the Cumberland Valley Tele | phone has spent more than SIOO,OOO on the outside plant," continued the ; engineer. "Over ten miles of aerial | cables have been cut into service and j several miles of underground cable have been installed, together with ! special trunking cables for long dis tance service. An entire new cable | has been put into service between the | Harrisburg and Steelton exchanges. The entire outside plant has been care- I fully gone over and placed in first class condition. The service to and from i Steelton is the quickest known to the telephone art. With the use of the ; dial a connection can be completed be i tween the city and the big mill town in six iieconds. All details for giving the very best telephone service have I been carefully worked out at an ex ; pense of thousands of dollars, but wo I believe it will bo worth it to both tho j subscriber and the company." C. V. T. Home Company | Great interest has been evinced I throughout the city at the plan of the | Cumberland Valley Telephone to re- I place its manual system with the auto j matic because the Cumberland Valley I is a home company and a great deal of local capital is Invested therein. I The Cumberland Valley Telephone | Company was formed by a merger of five telephone companies in 1 yOl cov ering all the territory of the Cuniber land V alley. The Harrisburg eom | pany which entered into the merger i was the Dauphin County Telephone l Company. Benjamin F. Meyers, after ! the merger and until 1907, was presi dent of the company, j Shortly after the merger was formed I the property was leased to the United Telephone and Telegraph Company, which operated it until 1907, when the Cumberland Valley and the United Telephone and 'Telegraph Companies were' both leased to the American Union Telephone Company. Company's Holdings Resides the five original companies which went into the merger the com pany afterward acquired the Juniata and Susquehannt. Telephone Company, the Lykens Telephone and Telegraph Company and telephone properties in the states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The property now ex tends from Sunbury on the north, Lewistown on the west, and goes south through Central Pennsylvania, taking in the towns of Mechanicsburg, Car lisle, Shlppensburg, Hanover, Gettys burg, Chambersburg, and thence through Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, covering Hagerstown, Mar tinsburg and Winchester. The -.ompany operates 33 exchanges, has 600 miles of toll lines and 7t8,825 miles of line wire. Tracy Made Receiver On January 1, 1912, the property was taken out of the hands of the American Union Telephone Company and placed In the control of Henry M. Tracy, the present president, as re ceiver. At this time the property had become so depleted that its service was seriously Impaired and the revenues so reduced and cost of operation in creased that it barely earned operating expenses. Through the efficient man agement of the receiver the property was reconstructed, the business built up, confidence of the public restored, and at the end of four years of the receivership Mr. Tracy had spent al most $200,000 from earnings of the company on reconstruction work, turn ing over the property to tho new com pany free of any receivers' obligations and in excellent working condition. Ihe toll lines had all been recon structed, most of the lines rebuilt, new exchanges of a modern type installed at Mechanicsburg, Carlisle, Shippens burg, Gettysburg, Hagerstown and Martinsburg, together with a number of smaller exchanges at various points. The automatic telephone was a hobby of the receiver and for the last two years of the receivership he was investigating its merits and strength ening the suburban districts of Harris burg In order to make It essential and valuable to Harrisburg subscribers. He visited various cities in the West to get first-hand knowledge of the work ings of the automatic telephone and its popularity among its patrons and was convinced of Its merits. It remained, however, for tho di rectorate of the pew company to au thorize the expenditure of the large amount of capital required to install automatic equipment and new cable. This was taker, care of in the plan for reorganization, and after a thor ough investigation by the board of directors the work was authorized. The present directors of the com pany are William J. Lcscure, Charles A.-' Kunkel, Henry M. Tracy, S. Will Shunkweiler, of Eewistown; F. A. Zim merman, of Chambersburg; T. J O'Neill, of Hanover; S. Wynne Foulkcs and A. E. Prendergast. The late James Brady was also a director. His va cancy in the board has not yet been filled HARRISBURG aSiite TELEGRAPH [ Hot Off the Wire v Berlin. (By Wireless to Sayville, 1.. I.) An explosion la a Russian am munition plant has caused tlie death of about 1,000 persons, according to the Overseas News Agency, quoting the Russian newspaper R<<ch. Pittsburgh. Two men wore killed instantly and another was injured so badly that he died within a few minutes as a result of an explosion that wrecked two storage buildings of the Aetna Chemical Company at Fort Pitt last, night. The force of the ex plosion, which is believed to have been caused by the ignition of 300 pounds of trl nitro toluol, was felt for miles. Alientown. Success crowned a campaign last week to reorganize the Allentown Chamber of Commerce. In four days a new membership of 584 was obtained. It has been decided to work for 750 to make this city's trade body the largest in the State, outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The slogan is "All together for Allentown's greatest forward movement!" Dayton, <>. Orvllle Wright has tiled application for a patent on a stabilizing device that, he says, will make the tlylng machine as safe as an automobile. The new attachment enters the domain of electricity. By a unique arrangement of batteries, augmented by a pendulum swinging In a liquid bath and a minor propellor placed almost directly over the pilot's head, absolute, unswerving, automa tic stability Is said to be maintained. AMUSEMENTS WILMEfI & VINCENT VAUDEVILLE InATS. <:30I0>I5<: EVE.TJOTUIOJQIOI?,!/ Do Your Holiday laughing Early! Sec THE CABARET GIRL A Musical Comedy With Sonic (■ood December Snap to It and Four Other Standard Keith \ The Photo D ] leautiful i J fl Greatest, Most Astound- Colossal J $ y ing Spectacle of the Age Daring \ V Thomas H. Ince's incomparable master-piece Edifying * a mammoth picture which thrills and de- : ' t fl lights all alike. Forceful * * PI IT Cost a Million Dollars to Produce It. J -®- Shows 750 Stupendous Scenes ' j All This Week—Twice Daily j jj Matinees at 2.15 P. M., Evenings at 8.15 T Surpasses the imagination in grandeur! It J shows you more and teaches you more in two J hours than you could learn otherwise in 200 J j I * years J ' /*T"X M° st Amazing Entertainment j J Q -S- Ever Devised for Man by Man J fiyi Super-wonderful | Don't Miss It! Ultra-remarkable ' i fil THE LOVE ROMANCE ETER j * The Reigning Sensation of 1,000 Cities Direct > f From a Half Years Run at the Criterion Theatre J J in New York I j j f Prominent Philadelphia J f y Clergymen Ann oun ced > — From Their Pulpits that | aim Ki H ' "Civilization" | •6 Was the Most Powerful Plea for Univer- <> sal Peace the Eyes of the World Has J Ever Seen. See This Wonderful Picture # f ) and Then Thank God This NATION IS \ P . NOT AT WAR J f Reserved seats now selling at box office General admission 25c and 50c; * | reserved seats, matinee 75c; evenings SI.OO, a few at $1.50 Sale of seats has t been heavy Good ones to be had for those who hurry. * Three Near Death When Dynamite Shatters Home Johnstown, Pa., Dec. 11. A frame house occupied by Frank Jose and fam ily. at Twin Rocks, was dynamited Saturday midnight and three persons j were burled in the debris. Although all escaped serious injury, the building j was destroyed. ; JOSH and his wife were hurled through the roof of their home. A one year-old child sleeping' in a crib was ! tossed into the air ana alighted upon an extra bed in another room, all par titions having been lorn out by the i force of the explosion. The ruins caught lire, but rescues wore effected promptly. County detectives and of ficers are keeping Frank Yankis, alleg ed to have threatened to blow up Jose's I home following a dispute over money. UOOD riuno run FARM Marietta, Pa., l>ee. 11. Andrew i fikiles, ot' Gap. purchase! a twenty ; acre farm from Jere Pfenninger for $5,765, which is a high price for land. All farm lands in the country are sell ing high. At a sale Saturday cows sold as high j as $l6O. MARRIED FIFTY YEARS ' Bart, Pa., Dec. 11. Mr. and Mrs. I David Edwards celebrated their golden wedding anniversary yesterday. j AMCSEMEXTS Extraordinary Attraction To-day, To-morrow mid WcdncMday M IM HITY," fumed nrt film play, featuring AI I)It 10Y MI NSOX, the uorhl'H jrmitput nrtUts* model nnd ruinous beauty. In this splendid production Miss Munson enacts a role the like of which has never been seen on stage or screen before—a powerful drama, filled with high pitched interest and suspense. Art, Faith, l.ovc. Beauty, Morality, nil In "Pl ItITY." ADMISSION: 10 A. M. till <1 ft*. M, Children, 10c. i.duer Floor—Adult*, 13c. llalcony, 10c. Evening-1 Children, 13c. Lower Floor Adultn, "sc. Ilnlcony, 15c, Thursday onIy—LILLIAN WALKER lu -THE DOLLAR A TUB LAW." * DECEMBER 11, 1916. ! Morse New General Manager ' of the Chalmers Company Hugh Chalmers, president of the Chalmers Motor Company, announces the election of E. C. Morse, vice-presi dent in charge of the selling division, to the position of general manager of that concern. Mr. Morse, who has al ready assumed his new duties, con i tinues in charge of the sales, service | and advertising departments, and will j devote a large portion of his time to I this work. Since entering the Chalmers Com ' pany two months ago, Mr. Morse has ! greatly increased the efficiency of the departments under his charge and has I won the unswerving loyalty of the great body of Chalmers distributors. He is recognized as one of the fore j most executives and salesmen in the automobile industry. Effective November 29. W. P. Kiser. ; formerly treasurer of the Chalmers Company, became secretary and assist j ant general manager. Mr. Kiser will [bo succeeded as treasurer of D. P. | Turnbull. Both men have been'con i nocted with the Chalmers Company j for sometime past and are widely AML'SEMENTS COLONIAL To-day and To-morrow Bertha Kalich with STUART HOI.MKS in a new six-part Fox feature Love and Hate A story that lays bare a woman's emotions Also a new two-reel Comedy and the latest Pa the News Wednesday ami Thursday WILFRED LUCAS and COX ST.\ NCE TALMA I)C.E lit I "THE MICROSCOPE MASTERY" All Seats in this theater ADULTS CHILDREN I 1()<- 5^ * f : TO-NIQhT fe BURTON HOLMES Bj t HIlIlNt'lf) In a travelogue I The German I Fatherland The German Fatherland" KB ■H is a phrase fraught with ■H heart interest. What traveler VI K2S but remembers gratefully the ■jffl genuine, potent and all-pel- Cm BJI avding charm of beautiful MB Rtgj Germany the land wonder- DM wSj fully governed cities and fas- [1 E3js cinating old-time towns, still HR S| retaining the impress of the Era EWj arts and crafts of other days [MI ■H the hand of honest country BR folk, of cleanly Inns, good jaN Kffl food and smiling service. KS ■ "The German Fatherland" g HH evokes visions of a fair coun- Bfj try consistently embellished Htn with the myriad works of an I Ki artistic, beauty-loving peo- If Mn pie. Burton Holmes has I MS journeyed far and wide in £3l Germany. His travelogue pre- KNg sents a conipresensive survey QN| ■ of the Germany of the travel- I H, er and gives to those who H ■ have never known tlie Ger- |H ■ man Fatherland a vivid con- ran ■ ception of the admirable m ■ homeland of the German peo- Marvelous MOVION Wonderful Slides Prlcem line, ."Hlo, 7of, SI.OO MSXT linjil)AV KVEXIWT sß|
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