f : 



436 Telephone Systems of the Continent of Europe 



PAYMENT OF OPERATOES 



Girls are taken on at seventeen years of age. If they have 

 passed the usual school course no examination is enforced. They 

 work eight hours per day, and are paid from 2S. 6d. to $s. accord- 

 ing to length of service. The lady superintendents get from 

 3-f. 6d. to 35. lod. per day. 



STATISTICS 



The Wiirtemberg exchanges and their subscribers, at the end 

 of 1894, were : 



Stuttgart (population 140,000) 



Backnang 



Boblingen . ! 



Cannstatt 



Degerloch 



Feuerbach 



Untertiirkheim 



Vaihingen - 



Waiblingen 



ZufTenhausen 



Diirrmenz-Mlihlacker 



Ebingen 



Esslingen 



Friedrichshafen 



Gmiind . 



Goppingen . 



Hall 



Heilbronn 



Sontheim 



Ludwigsburg . 



Ravensburg . 



Reutlingen 



Pfullingen 



Rottweil 1 ' f . 



Oberndorf 



Schramberg . . 



Schwenningen 



Trossingen 



Schorndorf 



Sindelfingen . 



Tubingen 



Ulm 



2,500 



3 

 6 



190 

 20 



40 



20 

 10 

 10 

 12 



if 



30 



I 10 



15 



170 



77 



37 



320 



6 



78 



65 



140 



18 



25 



9 



20 

 12 

 12 

 20 

 J 5 



75 



32 switch-rooms and 4,430 subscribers 



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