272 TelepJione Systems of tJie Continent of Europe 



Government is not disposed to establish one, at its own expense 

 may arrange to contribute to the cost. In Luxemburg this is 

 done by an annual subscription and by providing an office and 

 operator at the charge of the commune. In January 1895 there 

 were thirty-four such stations in operation. 



TARIFFS 



i. Rates for local and (2) trunk intercourse. Within the 

 limits of any town or village in which an exchange exists the 

 annual subscription, which is payable half-yearly in advance, is 

 3/. ^s. 



It is important to note that the State erects the lines, supplies 

 the instruments, and maintains everything at its own expense. 

 The 3/. 45-. per annum covers all charges and includes the right 

 to communicate freely all over the Grand Duchy, which measures, 

 roughly, 44 miles by 30. 



When the subscriber is located at a distance from an exchange 

 the tariff is modified. When his place lies not more than one 

 and a half kilometers from an existing route of telephone wires 

 the subscription is maintained at 3/. 4^. ; for each additional 

 kilometer it is increased by 2/. But the subscriber has, in any 

 case, to reimburse the State the cost of his wire, at the rate of 4/. 

 per kilometer, between its point of junction with the main route 

 and the exchange. If he is located actually on an existing trunk 

 route, but outside the radius of any exchange, the same system 

 obtains : he bears the cost of so much of his line as lies outside 

 the radius at the rate of 4/. per kilometer, and pays the usual 

 local subscription of 3/. 45". This rule, which, so far as the author 

 is aware, has not its counterpart elsewhere, is by no means a bad 

 one : it enables the distant subscriber, for one reasonable payment 

 down, to bring out the exchange, as it were, to the nearest point 

 on a main route to his dwelling, and puts him thenceforward on a 

 par as regards annual subscription with his urban competitors. 



Extra instruments are charged i/. and extra bells 45-. per 

 annum. In calculating distances the actual course of a wire is 

 taken. Contracts are for three or five years, according to the sub- 

 scriber's distance from the exchange. The use of instruments is 



