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PAYMENT OF OPERATORS 



When first taken on, girls receive i/. 135-. ^d. per month ; which 

 is increased to 2/. is. 8*/. when passed as quite competent. Sub- 

 sequently they are advanced by stages to a maximum of 2/. iSs. 4^., 

 attained in three years. Lady superintendents receive 4/. 3-f. 4^. per 

 month. The girls' duty never, except at night and under very 

 special circumstances, exceeds six hours per day. One watch takes 

 duty from 8 A.M. till 2 P.M. ; the second, thence till 9 P.M. At 

 that hour the night staff, consisting of six young ladies, arrives and 

 continues the service until 8 A.M. They watch and sleep by turns. 

 The Vienna staff, all told, comprises 334 girl operators. 



STATISTICS 



In March 1895 the subscribers in Vienna numbered 7,700. 

 For the other towns no figures are obtainable later than Decem- 

 ber 31, 1893, when there were 80 exchanges belonging to the State 

 (including 10 taken over from the companies on the preceding 

 January i), comprising 177 public stations and 7,483 subscribers. 

 Vienna thus possesses a good half of the total number of sub- 

 scribers. At the same date there were 40 metallic circuit trunks, 

 of a total length of 3,302 kilometers, in operation. The principal 

 exchanges were as follow : 



Town Number of subscribers 



Prague ...... 1,070 



Trieste 692 



Graz 598 



Briinn 568 



Lemberg . . . . . .518 Taken over from the 



Reichenberg . . . . .427 companies 



Linz-Urfahr 221 



Bielitz-Biala ..... 191 



Pilsen 182 



Czernowilz 1 1 } 



