NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
17 
MAGNOLIA 
FOR SALE: One of the finest summer residences on 
the North Shore. 50,000 ft. of land and house of seve 
enteen rooms and four bath rooms and toilet, all mode 
ern conveniences. The grounds are beautifully laid 
out with plenty of shade, ornamental and fruit trees 
and shrubbery, flower garden and tennis court. 
Apply to J. MAY, MAGNOLIA, MASS. 
TELEPHONE TALKS 
Believing that exact knowledge promotes co-operation, the New 
England Telephone and Telegraph Company is publishing a 
series of brief expositions of some phrases of tele- 
phony, for the benefit of itself, and, as it hopes, 
for the benefit of all telephone users. 
BIG PUBLISHING «STUNT”’ 
With the possible exception of one, 
no other book published runs into such 
large editions as the t-lephone directory. 
Neither does any other represent the 
same amount of incessant labor, and 
none is more accurate. “Though mis- 
takes are liable to creep into every 
human production in spite of every pre- 
caution, the telephone directory is 
acknowledged to be more free from them 
than any other list of names compiled. 
The telephone directory is one of the 
most important adjuncts to good tele- 
phone service. As the telephone sys- 
tem grew, not only in the number of 
people who made use of it but in the 
number of times each person employed 
it, obviously it became impossible for 
operators to keep the run of subscribers 
by name. To attempt to do so would 
not only make all sorts of chances for 
errors, but would seriously reduce the 
quickness of the service. 
So, for the convenience of the large 
body of telephone users—there are a 
quarter of million regular subscribers 
alone now in the four northern New 
England states—and for the sake of 
uniformly good service, the New Eng- 
land company was compelled several 
years ago to establish the practice among 
its operators that they should not under- 
take to do their work by name, so to 
speak, but must be told the number of 
the telephone with which connection 
was wanted. 
With 40,000 telephones added to the 
New England system each year, it is 
more necessary all the time that users of 
the service shall, to save their own time 
and ‘‘ Central’s, ’’ look numbers up be- 
fore they call the operator. All told, 
upwards of a million copies of the New 
England company’s different directories 
are distributed every twelve months. 
The records of new subscribers, of re- 
movals, of changes of number and all 
the other details that affect the make-up 
of the directory are corrected each day 
in every one of the 488 exchanges in 
the system, and once in so often these 
corrections are forwarded to the cata- 
logue department, as it is called, where 
they are transferred to proof sheets of 
the standing type of the next issue of the 
book. Thus the list is kept ‘‘up to the 
hour’’ all the time practically to the 
moment of going to press. When a 
new exchange is opened, or a revision 
of numbers in an old one is necessary, 
special supplements are published so that 
the public may have correct information 
without waiting for the next regular issue 
of the telephone book to come around. 
Sometimes a telephone user is unable 
to look up the number of the person he 
wants to speak with. Maybe he has 
mislaid his directory, or the man _ he 
wants is a new subscriber whose name 
does not appear in the last printed list. 
In such cases you can always learn in- 
stantly the number you want by asking 
your operator to connect you with the 
**information operator.’? The “‘infor- 
mation operators’’ in every exchange 
have special directories arranged by 
name, by numbers and by streets, so that 
no matter what inquiry is made about 
subscribers’ numbers they can answer it 
immediately. 
BOSTON & MAINE R. R. 
In effect Oct. 7, 1907. 
TRAINS LEAVE MANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN and BOSTON 
£624, £727, ||731, £2759, |/8 34, £839, f29 35, 
\|10 21, £10 34, f11 33a. m. f12 43, |/1 31, f1 35, 
|J2 28, £257, f419, ||451, £519, £642, ||6 43, 
8 19, £906, ||9 49, {10 09 p. m. 
W. MANCHESTER, BEVERLY FARMS, 
PRIDES and MONTSERRAT—f6 24, 7 27, 
7 31, 759, ||834, £839, £935, |1021, £10 34, 
f11 33, a. m. f1243, ||1 31, £135, 228, £257, 
f419, 451, £519, 1642, 6 43, ||819, £906, 
949, £1009, p, m. 
MAGNOLIA, WEST GLOUCESTER and 
ROCKPORT —f7 02, [f7.37, ||[907, £913, 
f10.14, |/1053, f1142,a.m. +132, £308, 1307, 
f414,'f517, |15 22, £554, £622, ||654, f7 20, 
f807, ||812, f1021, |\10.37, f1214, p.m. 
TRAINS LEAVE WEST MANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN, and BOSTON 
f6 27, 730, |I734, £2802, 837, £342, £2939, 
10 24, £1038, f11 36, a.m. £12.46, ||1 34, f1 38, 
2 21, £300, f422, 1454, 1522, £645, ||6 46, 
18 22, £909, 1952, 11012, p m. 
BEVERLY FARMS, PRIDES and MONT- 
SERRAT—f6 27, 730, (|734, £802, ||8 37, 
842, £939, ||10 24, £1038, f1136,a.m. f1246, 
|]1 84, £138, ||231,- £300, £422, ||454, £5 22, 
£6 45, ||6 46, 822, £9 09, ||9 52, £10 12, p.m. 
MANCHESTER, MAGNOLIA, WEST 
GLOUCESTER, and ROCK PORT—£6 58, f7 34, 
1903, £90Y, £1010, ||1049 £1137, a. m. T1 28, 
302, {|303, f410, £512, ||518, £549, £619, 
6 50, £716, £804, ||808, f1018,  |/10 33, 
f12 11, p.m. 
+ Daily. f Daily except Sunday. z Boston only 
|| Sunday only. 
Detailed information and time tables may 
be obtained at ticket oflices. 
D, J. FLANDERS, C.M. BURT, 
Pass. Traf. Mgr. Gen. Pass. Agt. 
Location of Fire Alarm Boxes 
Manchester, Mass. 
31. Electric. Light Station. 
33. Telephone Exchange Office. 
34. Summer Street, P. H. Boyle’s Stable. 
41. Corner Bridge and Pine Sts. 
43. Corner Harbor and Bridge Sts. 
52. Fire Engine House, School St. 
54. Corner School and Lincoln Sts. 
56. School St., opp. the grounds of the 
Essex County Club. 
61. .Sea St., H. S. Chase’s House. 
62. Corner Beach and Masconomo Sts. 
64. ‘Lobster Cove.” 
Two Blasts, all out or under control. 
Three Blasts, extra call. 
Directions for giving an alarm: Break the 
glass, turn the key and open the door, pull 
the hook down once and let go 
JAMES HOARE, Chief, 
GEORGE 8. SINNICKS, . 
CLARENCE W. MORGAN, 
Engineers of Fire Department 
22 at 7.45 a.m., no school at John Price 
Primary School; 10. 45 a.m., one session. 
22 at 8.00a.m., no school at any of the 
buildings; 11.00 a.m., one session. 
Let us figure on your next order of 
PRINTING 
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