NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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. 
Unsuspected Causes of Trouble 
Apart from the inevitable ‘“‘trouble’’ 
in the intricate and sensitive equipment 
of central offices and in the extensive 
system of outside lines, overhead and 
underground, the telephone service oc- 
casionally suffers from disturbance of the 
circuits or instruments on the subscrib- 
ers’ premises. This kind of ‘‘trouble”’ 
is difficult to locate, and so is specially 
annoying; but almost always it is perfect- 
ly avoidable, being caused by uncon- 
scious carelessness. 
In one case when a subscriber re- 
ported that he was unable to talk through 
his telephone at all it was found that a 
member of the family had laid a pair of 
spectacles.on top-ofthe bell-box of... the 
instrument so that the steel bows touched 
against the binding posts to which the 
outside wires are fastened, thus ‘‘ cutting 
out’’ both transmitter and receiver by 
closing the circuit before it reached 
them. Another subscriber declared that 
people who called him had been told 
“* They con’t answer’’ when he knew 
positively that the bell had not rung at 
all. His difficulty turned out to be due 
not to any failure of ‘‘ Central’’ to per- 
form her work properly, but to the fact 
that his wife had mufHed the telephone 
bells while the baby took his nap and 
had forgotten to remove the muffler. 
Inside telephone wiring is insulated 
with the greatest care to protect it against 
dampness and to keep the wires sepa- 
rated from each other. It cannot be 
made proof against everything though. 
Every now and then a subscriber’s 
*“station’’ fails to work properly because 
some one stands a dripping umbrella 
where it saturates the telephone cord 
and spoils the insulation, or a careless 
office boy does similar damage in polish- 
ing a desk set with liquid instead of with 
chamois leather. Leaky plumbing raises 
havoc with interior circuits every now 
and then. Here and there is a nervous 
person who has a habit of jabbing with a 
pen the green silk cord of his desk set 
while he is telephoning, with the result, 
of course, that he eventually spoils the 
insulation, which brings the wires of the 
circuit into contact and puts them out of 
commission. And many _ subscribers 
6 33 r 
fidget’? with the green cord when 
talking, twisting and bending it between 
their fingers till one of these days the 
copper strands inside break completely 
off. 
Considerable “‘ unsatisfactory service’’ 
is caused, by subscribers attaching to the 
telephone instrument devices of one sort 
or another that interfere with its proper 
working. Nothing should be fastened 
to the transmitter by screwing the 
mouthpiece through it, for instance; that 
disarranges the adjustment. For obvious 
reasons nothing should be stretched over 
the opening of the mouthpiece; that puts 
an obstacle between the voice and the 
diaphragm. The mouthpiece can be 
kept perfectly clean by wiping it out 
with a dry cloth; no liquid should be 
used. 
Carpenters, paper hangers, painters, 
plumbers and other workmen who, with 
the best intentions in the world, move 
the wires temporarily that they may 
better do their work, frequently either 
break the circuit in doing so, or injure 
it in.their attempts to replace things as 
they found them. When it is necessary 
to disturb telephone wiring for any _pur- 
pose, the company should be asked to 
send its own expert men; and it will 
save the subscriber loss of time and in- 
17 
BOSTON & MAINE R. R., 
In effect Oct. 7, 1907. 
TRAINS LEAVE MANCHESTER FOR 
BEVERLY, SALEM, LYNN and BOSTON 
624, 1727, ||731, f2759, 834, 839, f29 35, 
10 21, £10 34, f11 33a. m. £1243, /1 31, £1385, 
|2 28, £257, 419, 451, £519, £642, 16 43, 
8 19, £906, ||9 49, £10 09 p. m. 
W. MANCHESTER, BEVERLY FARMS, 
PRIDES and MONTSERRAT—f6 24, f7 27, 
7 31, £759, ||8 34, £839, £935, ||1021, £10 34, 
f11 33, a. m. £1243, |{1 31, £135, ||228, £257, 
£419, ||451, £519, £642, ||6 43, ||8 19, £906, 
949, £1009, p. m. 
MAGNOLIA, WEST GLOUCESTER and 
ROCK PORT-—f7 02, ‘7.37, 907, 9 13, 
£10.14, ||1053, f1142,a.m. +132, £308, 1/307, 
f414, 1517, ||522, 1554, £622, 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, ||8 37, £842, £2939, 
10 24, £10 38, {11 36, a.m. £12.46, ||1 34, f1 38, 
2 21, £300, £422, ||454, £522, £645, ||6 46, 
8 22, 1909, ||952, 11012, p. m. 
BEVERLY FARMS, PRIDES and MONT- 
SERRAT—f6 27, 730, (734, 1802, |j8 37, 
1842, £9 39, ||10 24, £1038, f1136,a.m. 1246, 
134, £138, ||231, £300, £422, 1454, 522) 
£6 45, ||6 46, [8 22, £9 09, ||9 52, f10 12, p.m. 
MANCHESTER, MAGNOLIA, WEST 
GLOUCESTER, and ROCK PORT—£658, f7 34, 
1903, £909, £1010, ||1049 £1137, a. m. t1 28, 
£302, ||303, £410, £512, |[518, £549, £619, 
650, £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 offices. 
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 Firé 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. 
terruption of service if he will notify his 
manager at once of any _ kind of 
““trouble, ’’ so that it may be traced and 
remedied as quickly as possible. There 
is no charge for calling the exchange 
office for this purpose, whether the call 
is made from a subscriber’s ‘‘station”’ 
or from a public pay station. 
