NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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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. 
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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. 
“Central” and Her Work. 
The telephone company is engaged in 
what has become one of most important 
of public services. Its purpose is to put 
people into communication with each 
other in the quickest way possible and to 
maintain communication without inter- 
ruption. Above all, it endeayors to per- 
form this function—always performed 
under exacting conditions and frequently 
in the face of considerable difficulties— 
with unfailing courtesy. 
The New England company, having 
provided a most efficient plant for the 
needs of each individual community, 
trains its operators painstakingly before it 
allows them to handle the public’s busi- 
ness, and supervises their work closely 
after they are assigned to the regular 
switchboards of its exchanges. Appli- 
cants for positions as operators must 
meet high personal standards before they 
are accepted even as students. The 
care with which the raw material, so to 
speak, is selected appears in the fact that 
only 60 per cent of the applicants who 
present themselves are finally emploved. 
One of the advantages of the training 
system is that it enables a young woman 
who finds her ideas about the work to 
have beeu wrong to withdraw without 
waste of time or embarrassment, and 
allows the company to determine pretty 
definitely the ultimate fitness of the can- 
didate before the interests of telephone 
users have been entrusted to her. 
As students the operators are taught to 
do their work intelligently as well as 
with mechanical precision. They are 
given practice in the actual operation of 
the switchboard, special apparatus being 
provided for that purpose, and are edu- 
cated to meet the almost inconceivably 
varied situations likely to arise when 
they become the composite young per- 
son known as “‘ Central.’? They learn 
not by rote alone, but by observation and 
experience as well, their teachers taking 
the place of the public, for the time 
being, and present so far as they can, 
the public’s various phases. Even the 
most skilful training cannot, of course, 
immediately make a beginner as efficient 
as an experienced hand. It does insure 
uniformity of methods, however, and 
equips the novice to become an adept 
much sooner than she otherwise could. 
It makes her self-reliant, and enables her 
to deal understandingly with the emer- 
gencies constantly arising in the work of 
the exchange. 
The discipline of the central office is 
strict, but every employee is treated with 
the utmost consideration. The amount 
of work each operator has to do is de- 
termined with great care that no one 
shall be overloaded and thereby affect 
unfavorably the quality of the service. 
Besides the chief operator there are 
supervisors, their number depending up- 
on the size of the exchange, who keep 
the work of operators under constant ~ 
observation, see that it is done in accord- 
ance with the rules adopted by the com- 
pany as necessary to good service, and 
act as mentors in cases of difficulty. 
The New England company _ takes 
great pride in its operating force. It 
believes that in no industry is theré to be 
found a more efficient, earnest, faithful 
set of employees—faithful alike to the 
company and to the public to which the 
company is responsible. The work of 
the telephone operator has’ taken no 
mean place among the professions of 
women, and it is a source of great  satis- 
faction that the public’s appreciation of 
“* Central’s’’ character, and the greater 
consideration which follows better ac» 
quaintance and understanding, are more 
general and more apparent each year. 
BOSTON & MAINE R. R. 
In effect Oct. 7, 1907. 
TRAINS LEAVE MANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN and BOSTON 
{6 24, £727, |I731, fz759, ||834, £839, fz9 35, 
|10 21, £10 34, f11 33a. m. £1243, 131, 1136, 
|2 28, £257, f419, ||451, £519, £642, 11643, 
8 19, £906, ||9 49, {1009 p. m. 
W. MANCHESTER, BEVERLY FARMS, 
PRIDES and MONTSERKRAT—f6 24, {7 277 
|7 31, £759, ||8 34, £839, £935, [10 21, f10 34, 
f11 33, a..m. £1243, |[1 31, £135, ||228, 1257, 
f419, 451, £519, £642, ||6 43, 1/819, £906, 
949, £1009, p. m. 
MAGNOLIA, WEST GLOUCESTER and 
ROCK PORT—47 02, 7.37, 907, £9 13, 
f10.14, ||10 53, f1142,a.m. +132, £308, |/307, 
f414, (517, ||522, £554, 1622,’ ||654, {7 20, 
807, ||812, 1021, ||10.37, £1214, p. m. 
TRAINS LEAVE WEST MANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN, and BOSTON 
f6 27, £730, ||734, £2802, ||837, £842. £2939, 
|10 24, f10 38, f11 36, a.m. £12.46, |/1 34, f1 38, 
221, £300, £422, ||454, 1522, ‘£645, '\I6 46, 
|8 22, £909, ||952, 1012, p m. 
BEVERLY FARMS, PRIDES and MONT- 
SERRAT—{6 27, 730, [7 34, 1802,  |/8 37, 
£842. 1939, ||10 24, f10 38, £1136, a.m. f1246' 
]1 34, £138, ||231, £300, £422, ||454, £522, 
£6 45, ||6 46, ||8 22, £9 09, ||9 52, £10 12, p.m. 
MANCHESTER, MAGNOLIA, WEST 
GLOUCESTER, and ROCK PORT—£6 58, f7 34, 
1903, £909, £1010, ||1049 £1137, a. m. +1 28, 
£302, ||303, £410, £512, ||518, £549, £619, 
650, £716, £504, 808, f1018, {10 33, 
MPP, Yor, sary 
t Daily. f Daily except Sunday. z Boston only 
|| Sunday only, 
Detailed information and time-tables may 
be obtained at ticket oftices. 
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 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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