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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. 
WHO “INFORMATION” IS 
The Information operator is one of 
the most important persons in a_ tele- 
phone exchange. Not only is she a 
compendium of all useful knowledge 
and a great convenience to ail telephone 
users, but she is indispensable to quick 
and efficient service. 
It was as a means to quick and 
efficient service that ‘‘Information’’ came 
into existence. Just as the telephone 
company found itself obliged by the 
growth of the system to require that sub- 
scribers should be called by number and 
not by name, so it had to find a way of 
informing the public readily as to the 
numbers of new “‘stations’’? added to 
the lines day by day as to changes in old 
numbers. “The company always avoids 
changing numbers if it is possible for it 
to do so. Every change means a con- 
siderable rearrangement of circuits in the 
central office plant and sometimes in the 
outside wiring; besides it complicates 
‘* Central’s’’ work just so much until 
people become familiar with the new 
order of things. In certain circum- 
stances number changes are unavoidable, 
however. 
For instance, when a man moves his 
office or his home the company gener- 
ally has to put his telephone on a _ differ- 
ent line from the one with which he was 
previously connected. If he has a 
special line, with nobody else on the 
same circuit, it may be possible to alter 
the connections in the exchange so as to 
avoid altering the line number. But if 
he is on a party line this cannot be done, 
it is easy to see. Also, in rearranging 
the wires to accommodate growth, or in 
expanding the central office plant, it is 
sometimes necessary to change line 
numbers. And as the use of the tele- 
phone increases there is all the time an 
increasing number of people who, find- 
ing that thev need more facilities than 
formerly, progress from party line ser- 
vice to special line or from a line on 
which there are several parties to one 
on which there are only two. In such 
cases, naturally, new members must be 
assigned since entirely different circuits 
must be employed. 
Thus there is an unceasing stream of 
queries coming to “‘ Central, ’’ and the 
regular switchboard operators neither 
can have conveniently available all the 
information required to answer these 
questions nor, if they did have it, could 
they without seriously interrupting traffic, 
stop their work of handling regular calls 
to answer inquiries. Therefore, the 
New England company has in all its 
offices of any size an  ‘‘information 
desk,’’ where are kept in the most easily 
available form lists of all subscribers con- 
nected with the exchange— lists arranged 
by name, by number and by street ad- 
dresses, so that however a subscriber is - 
asked for he can be identified and his 
number given immediately. 
Every operator at the switchboard in 
an exchange has the means of ' connect- 
ing any line on which she answers calls 
with ‘‘Information.”? To  ‘‘ Infor- 
mation’’ is referred every: request from 
a subscriber that goes beyond establish- 
ing communication with a telephone the 
number of which is given in the first in- 
stance. You will always save time if 
you will ask your operator to connect 
you with ‘““Information’? when you 
find it necessary to make any sort of in- 
quiries regarding the telephone service; 
and no charge is made for calls of this 
sort, whether from a __ subscriber’s 
**station’’ or from a public pay station. 
BOSTON & MAINE R. R. 
In effect Oct. 7, 1907. 
TRAINS LEAVE MANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN and BOSTON 
{6 24, £727, ||731, fz7 59, ||8 34, £839, t29 35, 
\|10 21, 10 34, f11 33a. m. £1243, |[131, £136, 
|2 28, £257, £419, ||451, £519, £642, 1643, 
|$ 19, £906, 9 49, £1009 p. m. 
W. MANCHESTER, BEVERLY FARMS, 
PRIDES and MONTSERRAT—{f6 24, £7 27, 
|7 31, £759, ||8 34, £839, £935, |1021, £10 34, 
133, a. m. £1243, ||1 31, £135, 228, £257, 
f419, ||451, £519, £642, 6 43, 11819, £906, 
949, £1009, p. m. 
MAGNOLIA, WEST GLOUCESTER and 
ROCK PORT—f7 02, /f7.37, 907, £9 13, 
f10.14, 1053, f1142,a.m. 4132, £308, |[307, 
f414, (517, ||522, £554, £622, 1654, £7 20, 
807, ||812, £1021, 10.37, £1214, p.m. 
TRAINS LEAVE WEST lANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN, and BOSTON 
f6 27, 7 30, ||734, f2802, ||8 37, £8 42, £2939, 
10 24, £10 38, f11 36, a.m. £12.46, |/1 34, f1 38, 
221, £300, £422, ||454, £522, £645, |16 46, 
8 22, £909, 952, 11012, p m. 
BEVERLY FARMS, PRIDES and MONT- 
SERRAT—{6 27, 730, ||7 34, £802, 8 37, 
£842. £9 39, ||10 24, £10 38, £1136, a.m. f12 46, 
134, £138, 231, £300, £422, ||454, £522) 
{6 45, ||6 46, ||8 22, 19 09, ||9 52, £10 12, p.m. 
MANCHESTER, MAGNOLIA, WEST 
GLOUCESTER, and ROCKPORT—£6 58, f7 34, 
1903, £90y, £1010, 1049 £1137, a. m. t1 28, 
£302, (303, £410, £512, ||518, £5 49, £619, 
650, £716, £804, |[808, f10 18, |10 33, 
P12 nen 
t 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. Mer. Gen. Pass. Agt. 
Location of Fire Alarm Boxes 
Manchester, Mass. 
31. Electric Light Station. 
83. 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 S. 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 
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