undergone a complete change, a new common battery switchboard having been installed, and the entire interior re-arranged in the most artistic manner. Richmond office is now one of the best equipped in the Oakland division.

Oregon Division.

On November 1 Mr. D. H. Drewery was appointed division contract agent for the Oregon division. Mr. Drewery formerly worked with this company as city contract agent in Portland and as special agent in the Oregon division. For the last 14 months he has been in business in Goldfield, Nevada.

On or before December 1 the new common battery switchboard at The Dalles will be completed and ready for use. At that time the exchange will be moved to new and attractive quarters and the entire plant will be put on a common battery basis. Manager Taylor and his assistants will soon be in a position to make a record in exchange growth.

One of the best sub-license companies in the Oregon division, both in point of number of subscribers and in the character of service given, is the Multnomah and Clackamas Counties Mutual Telephone Co., Gresham, Oregon. In eighteen months this exchange has grown from six subscribers to two hundred and fifty and new telephones are being installed every day. C. R. Keller, the C. R. Keller, the manager of the company, expects in six months to have 500 subscribers in his territory.

Mr. Walter J. Smith, the genial chief clerk of the Portland city department, is wearing a broad smile, accounted for by the presence of a 10-lb. boy at his home. Mr. Smith has already filed an application for his son for employment with the telephone company.

Oregon city, during the last four months, has made an average gain of twenty-five new subscribers per month. It is a matter of common report not only from subscribers in Oregon City but from the traveling public

that Oregon City is giving the best service. in the territory. Manager Hall and his coworkers are to be congratulated. The opposition company, which secured a franchise over a year ago, will have little to work

upon.

The Coos Bay & Umpqua Telephone Company, an enterprising sub-licensee headed by Mr. L. R. Robertson of Marshfield, Oregon, has begun the construction of a toll line from Coquille to Bandon, Coos County.

New subscribers lists are in the hands of the printers for Grants Pass, Ashland, Astoria, Oregon City and Albany. All of these places show substantial gains.

The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company has leased new quarters at Cottage Grove and the building is already in course of construction for an office. Cottage Grove holds the record as the fastest growing exchange in the Oregon division. Manager David Griggs needs the new quarters and the new facilities.

Mr. W. R. Logus has been appointed long distance chief operator, vice N. G. Fitchpatrick, resigned. Mr. Logus has had several years' experience in both telephone and telegraph work.

Mr. C. H. Moore has been appointed city contract agent for Portland. Mr. R. E. Little, service manager, who has been temporarily handling the contract work, will assume his duties as service manager.

Mr. L. W. Thatcher has returned to the company in the capacity of facility and con

tract man.

Southern Division.

The Los Angeles operating school was opened on Tuesday, November 12, with Miss Mabel Noel as superintendent and Miss Ruth Dickey, ex-supervisor of main exchange, as instructresses, with five students.

Mr. W. P. Wise has been appointed manager at San Bernardino, succeeding Mr. Fred Spoeri, who has lately been promoted

Mr. G. R. Calio has been promoted to the position of manager of Ventura Exchange, succeeding Mr. A. O. Brown. Mr. Brown resigned his position and is going into business for himself at Oxnard.

Mr. W. S. Chapman, Jr., who for a year had been manager at Santa Barbara, recently resigned his position. Mr. E. E. Thompson, formerly district superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa, has been appointed manager to succeed Mr. Chapman.

Mr. George Weatherly has been appointed manager at Santa Paula, succeeding Mr. M. G. Demarest, who has resigned to go into business for himself. Mr. Weatherly comes to us highly recommended from Eagle Grove, Ia., where he was district manager for a number of years.

Mr. John Lawrence, general agent, who has been making a tour in Europe, arrived in New York on November 13.

Miss Kate Dugan, formerly chief operator of East Office, Los Angeles, was presented with a handsome silver toilet service, token of friendship by the East office operating and maintenance employees, prior to her transfer to the long distance department.

Puget Sound Division.

A meeting of "B" operators was held in the service manager's office at Seattle on the evening of November 1. In an informal talk the features of call circuit work were gone over thoroughly, and the necessity for following the instructions covering this work was discussed and explained in detail. All the operators whose working hours permitted were present and from the number of questions asked, appeared to be thoroughly interested, and anxious to bring the call circuit work up to a high standard.

Under the leadership of Mr. O. A. McMasters, Wire Chief of East Exchange, Seattle, many members of the Pacific Telephone Society of Seattle gather every Friday

est, with which they are dealing daily.

The night switchboard men in Seattle, not being able to attend the weekly meeting of The Pacific Telephone Society, have organized a class of their own. At present

they are meeting twice a week at one of the boy's 's rooms and are working along the same line as the regular Tuesday evening class. As soon as permanent quarters are secured by the club they will be used as a meeting place by the men who work nights. This class at present numbers ten.

F. W. Kelsey, formerly county manager of Whitman County in the Inland division, has taken the position of manager with the Northwest Peninsula Telephone and Telegraph Company, operating as a sub-licensee in Kitsap County, Puget Sound Division.

On November 5 Mrs. Jack David, formerly Miss Curran, an assistant chief operator at Main Office, Seattle, gave a farewell dinner party to her intimate friends, whose acquaintance she made while employed with this company in Seattle. The rooms were tastefully decorated in pink carnations and ferns. Cards and music followed the dinner. Mr. and Mrs. David leave for Spokane in the near future, where they intend making their home.

Miss Sophie Onsum, day chief operator at East Office, Seattle, has just returned from an extended trip in the East, where she has been enjoying a three months' furlough, visiting friends and relatives. She made a short stay at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Menomonie, Eau Claire and Barrow. While in St. Paul and Minneapolis she had the pleasure of visiting the telephone exchanges. East Office, Seattle, which has about 7000 subscribers, was taken care of during her absence by the day assistant chief operator, Miss M. Robertson.

Inland Division.

Mr. C. A. Cook, formerly in the division superintendent's office at Spokane, has been

made manager of the Sprague, Washington, Exchange, succeeding Miss Clara Prescher, transferred. Mr. Cook was succeeded by Max D. Benson, transferred from service inspector, Spokane.

Pendleton, Oregon, on the first of November was placed on a 142 basis. Miss Rhoda Hoover was made recorder, being promoted from the position of chief operator. Miss Hoover was succeeded by Miss Fay Gibson. Miss Fay Carney, formerly employed as operator at Pendleton, accepted the position as collector, succeeding Miss Mattie Good, resigned.

Pomeroy, Washington, has a new manager, Mrs. Daisy A. Hill, succeeding Miss Minnie Woodruff, transferred. Mrs. Hill, before coming north, was manager at Morgan Hill, California.

Carter W. Rarey has been employed as collector, Spokane exchange, succeeding W. E. Nickerson, resigned. A. G. Laughlin has been appointed division chief clerk, succeeding A. F. Swenson, transferred to division chief operator, succeeding R. H. Bangs, resigned. Mr. Laughlin, until a short time ago, was manager at North Yakima exchange, in the Seattle division.

Coast Division.

When the great athletic event of the year on the Pacific Coast, the football game between the University of California and Stanford University, took place at Palo Alto on November 9, the unprecedented amount of long distance business to San Francisco and Berkeley was taken care of in such a manner as to excite very favorable comment from a number of prominent Palo Alto citizens and visitors. Mayor J. F. Parkinson was especially loud in his praise of the good service.

A free telephone was given to the athletic committee connecting the field with the newspapers of the town. It was the intention of Division Superintendent Keyser to place a man on the field with a breast trans

mitter and head telephone with about three hundred feet of duplex wire connecting him with the main line, which would allow him to run up and down the full length of the field and report each play. Unfortunately it was discovered that the inter-collegiate agreement allowed no one on the side lines but the photographers and it was not possible to carry out the plan. After the day of very strenuous work, the operating force were taken to the "Palace of Sweets" and refreshments were served.

Messrs. Downs, Stannard and Patten, of the traffic department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, called upon Division Superintendent Keyser Thursday, November 7, for the purpose of discussing and outlining in a thorough manner proposed alterations in the present toll system of the Coast division.

Mr. O'Connell, of the traffic department of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, visited Division Superintendent Keyser Friday, November 8. The providing of additional capacity for San Jose was the object of his visit and a study of the situation was made. Mr. O'Connell also visited Santa Clara to inspect unofficially the new equipment recently installed.

On the night of November 8 a dinner was held at Watsonville in honor of Mr. Ed Dillon, who was leaving town, and of Mr. Bayard Shields, who has lately been installed wire chief. Favors in the shape of blue bells cut from the front pages of the directories were given. Each favor had a quaint verse inscribed upon the reverse side.

The construction department has just completed a new underground conduit system in Palo Alto on University avenue from High street to Waverley street. This is to provide facilities for the new office which has just been completed on Ramona street, a picture of which appeared in last month's issue of THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE MAGAZINE.

The construction department has just completed repairing the toll line between San

Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, and stringing an additional circuit of number 172 copper wire between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara; also an additional circuit between San Luis Obispo, Los Alamos and Lompoc. Two suburban lines have just been built from San Luis Obispo into the oil fields between Edna and Pizmo.

The new office building which has recently been completed at San Mateo will provide a desirable home for the Telephone Company, and as the new underground work is now under way and rapidly progressing, we believe that by the early part of 1908 moving will have been completed.

Our new building at Santa Clara has been completed and a new board provided. The construction work, both inside and out, is rapidly nearing completion and the Santa Clara people may consider the new equipment a laudable addition to their town.

The stockholders of the Paso Robles Shandon Telephone Company (Farmer Line) met in Paso Robles Saturday, November 2, 1907, to elect a board of directors for the ensuing year and discuss the further extension of their lines. They now have about thirty subscribers connecting with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company

at Paso Robles and it was decided to extend their lines to take in Creston and Adelaide.

It was brought out at this meeting that $800 had been subscribed almost wholly by the merchants and doctors of Paso Robles for the Creston line and $400 for the Adelaide line, which is almost sufficient to build both lines.

Mr. S. M. Bullene, formerly located at Gilroy in the capacity of repairman, has been appointed manager of the Hollister exchange to succeed W. E. Stabler, resigned.

Miss E. L. Short, who for several years has been in the employ of this company, has been granted a three months' leave of absence to enable her to enjoy an extended Eastern trip, which is well deserved. Her place is taken by Miss Britton.

Sacramento Division.

Mr. E. M. Clover has been appointed manager at Willows, succeeding D. H. Linebaugh. Mr. Clover was formerly cashier and bookkeeper for Rosenberg & Co. at Woodland. He entered the employ of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company at Woodland several months ago.

On November 2 the Red Bluff exchange was cut over from magneto to common battery, the old office discontinued and the employees transferred to the new quarters on Walnut street. Complete new equipment has been installed in the Red Bluff office, common battery telephones installed for all subscribers and the service transferred from magneto without a single case of trouble. The new telephone office is a large, airy building, having approximately 1600 square feet of floor space, and is considered one of the most up-to-date offices in California.

On November 5, Mr. Raymond Bicknell, employed by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, at Red Bluff, working under the supervision of Mr. A. J. Niquette, while descending from the top of a porch

slipped, and in falling struck a guy wire, causing the pole to which it was attached to break. Mr. Bicknell was not seriously disabled, although considerably bruised.

Miss Kate Henry, formerly assistant chief operator at Reno, Nevada, was recently transferred to Redding, accepting the position. of chief operator at that exchange.

Mr. J. B. Anderson, better known as "Jim" Anderson, has been transferred from Sacramento to Sisson, where he will be stationed during the winter months. Mr. Anderson is an expert snow-shoe man, and partly to his good work we were able to maintain our toll lines in the Shasta division during the severe storms last year when all telegraph lines were down, making it necessary for the railroad companies to use our lines in dispatching their trains.

San Joaquin Division.

A new telephone directory has just been issued in the San Joaquin division which will include Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and Tulare counties.

Formerly there were four directories published in this division, but these have been rearranged in such a manner that two will fill all requirements; one for Stockton district and the other for Fresno district, these to contain exchanges which transact more or less business with each other. The book includes forty-six exchanges alphabetically arranged after Fresno, the latter given preference on account of being the largest exchange and the division headquarters.

Mr. Geo. B. Hibbard, chief clerk of the San Joaquin division, is planning to spend his Christmas holidays in the City of Mexico, Old Mexico, with his father, Mr. Geo. W. Hibbard, general passenger agent of the Na

tional Railroad lines of Mexico. Mr. Hibbard, who was previously connected with the Oregon division of this company at Portland, Oregon, assumed the duties of chief clerk some months ago upon the promotion of Mr. M. Power, who took charge of the farmer line development with title of division contract agent.

On November 1 Mr. William H. Byrnes was appointed special agent of the San Joaquin division to succeed former Special Agent T. D. Jacobs, who resigned on October 15. Mr. Byrnes previously served as farmer line solicitor.

Miss Abbie Telfer has accepted the position of stenographer in the division superintendent's office made vacant by the resignation of Miss Nan Burns, who left the company to conduct a public stenographic bureau in Fresno.

The Fresno local operating force were delightfully entertained during the afternoon of November 8 by Local Chief Operator Miss Bessie Owens upon the occasion of her return to duty after a short vacation, the first during her nine and one-half years of

continuous service. A dainty luncheon was served by the hostess. Three tables were arranged in series, beautifully decorated, in the operators' lunchroom, affording sufficient capacity for one-half the force, who, after luncheon, relieved the girls who were working, enabling the entire force to attend.

In addition to the luncheon, the opportunity of making the occasion an operators' meeting was embraced. Informal talks were made by Manager Eldridge, Chief Operator Miss Owens, Assistant Chief Operator Miss Grounds, and others, encouraging all to continue to work together in harmony, and assuring all of their hearty co-operation. The meeting brought a number of good ideas to the surface that would not otherwise have developed.

A very interesting chief operators' meeting held at Bakersfield exchange on November 8 is reported. The problem of handling through switching was thoroughly discussed and many points of interest bearing upon this work were brought out by Miss O'Brien, the new chief operator.

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Oscar Brown, a lineman employed at Madera Exchange for the past two years, was instantly electrocuted on October 31 while attempting to take a telephone wire over a lead of light and power wire. received a shock of 4000 volts. Mr. Brown was about 28 years of age. He had no immediate relatives in California, his father and mother, with several brothers and sisters, residing at Sparta, Tenn., of which place he was a native.

place he was a native. Immediately upon receipt of the news of his death, Division Superintendent Noble hastened to Madera, personally superintending all arrangements for shipment of the remains to the home in Tennessee, and the purchase of a handsome. casket, defraying all expenses in behalf of the telephone company as a last token of respect toward a faithful and efficient employee.

Mr. Harry Hamilton Thompson, a popu