254 Telephone Systems of the Continent of Europe 



In Other tOWnS I Per annum 



s. d. 



CLASS i 5o 



CLASS 2. If not more than \ kilometer beyond the 



town boundary . . . . -534 

 If between | kilometer and 5 kilometers . 584 

 For each additional kilometer . . .018 



These rates cover all expenses of installation and maintenance. 

 Hotels, restaurants, clubs, and other places where the public have 

 access to the instruments are charged 50 per cent, extra ; on the 

 other hand, State, municipal, church, and charitable institutions 

 enjoy a reduction of one-half. 



2. Rural exchange communication. This corresponds to the 

 German ' vicinity ' intercourse and the French * annexes,' and is 

 intended for extra-suburban villages in the neighbourhood of 

 towns which possess an exchange. The subscription depends on 

 the facilities required. A subscriber desiring only power to call 

 the other subscribers in his own village pays 5/. per annum if 

 he wishes to ring up the town subscribers also, he is charged io/. 

 This, however, only applies when the State owns both the town 

 and the village exchange. When a company owns the town 

 exchange the village subscriber who wants the town subscribers 

 must pay io/. + i/. 5^. = n/. $s. if the town is a country one, 

 and io/. + 5/. = i5/. in the case of Buda-Pesth. 



3. County or departmental exchanges. These serve the 

 purely country districts, and are intended to connect one or more 

 villages with the chief village of a parish or ward. Such an 

 exchange may be connected with a similar one situated in another 

 parish or ward, whether of the same or of an adjoining county 

 or department, and also with a town exchange within its own 

 county. It is likewise permissible to join it to a town exchange 

 in a neighbouring county, provided this town is situated near the 

 boundary between the two counties. Subscriptions vary with the 

 service required. A subscriber calling only those connected to 

 his own village switch-room pays 2/. los. per annum ; if he would 

 be free to call through all the village exchanges in his group he 

 pays double 5/. ; if he would wander telephonically at will over 

 villages of the adjoining county also, his rate is 6/., which also 



