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respect to its telephones. The fact is due, no doubt, in the first 

 place to the facilities given, and in the second to 'the moderate 

 tariff, which, although somewhat high (y/. IDS.) for a first con- 

 nection, is remarkably low (^L i$s.) for second and subsequent 

 instruments. A consequence is that a larger proportion of the 

 subscribers go in for more than one instrument than in any other 

 country with which the author is acquainted. The length of line 

 allowed for the subscription is very liberal 5 kilometers (3*1 miles). 

 One objection to the rate is that it is uniform for all places, 

 capital and village alike -treatment which is neither economically 

 just nor calculated to encourage development. The obstacles 

 imposed in the neighbouring kingdom of Wiirtemberg, in the 

 Imperial postal territory and in France, to free communication 

 between a town and its suburbs are absent in Bavaria, there being 

 but two classes of charges for internal trunk communication, viz., 

 between towns of the same telephonic group, and between one 

 group and another. 



SERVICES RENDERED TO THE PUBLIC 



1. Local exchange communication between the subscribers 

 and public stations of the same town. 



2. Trunk communication between towns of the same group. 

 The distances separating towns of the same group are often con- 

 siderable, especially in the case of the Nuremberg group, which 

 comprises Fiirth, 5 miles ; Anspach, 25 miles ; Bamberg, 33 miles ; 

 and Amberg, 35 miles off. The joining of the Amberg and 

 Bamberg trunks therefore produces a circuit of sixty-eight miles, 

 for which the charge is 5^. per five minutes. 



3. Trunk communication between towns of different groups. 

 All the groups are joined, there being only one isolated exchange, 

 Kempten, which has not been reached by the trunks. Munich 

 and Nuremberg are connected by two widely-differing routes, via 

 Ratisbon and via Weissenberg, with the view of diminishing the 

 chance of total interruption. 



4. International trunk communication. The principal inter- 

 national line is that between Munich and Berlin, over which the 

 other chief Bavarian towns also obtain connection ; but the line to 



