does not improve. 
May first. 
MANCHESTER. 
Miss Kilburn of Beloit, Wiscon- 
sin, has been spending a portion of 
the week with Miss Prouty of the 
High School faculty. She will spend 
Martha 
Wellesley 
the week-end with Miss 
Brooks of Gloucester, a 
College classmate. 
Born Monday, April 24, a son to- 
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Vaughn. 
Born Tuesday, April 25, a son to 
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Wilkie. 
Mr. Wilkie is gardner at W. B. 
Walker’s. 
The condition of J. W. Widger 
Iss. Stone is 
now with him as night nurse. 
' Bernice T., wife of Edmund J. 
Semonds of Manchester, to Mike 
Rowley of Manchester, land and 
buildings on way from Pine street, 
Manchester, 25 feet 3 inches by 119 
feet 9 inches. 
The outing committee of the Man- 
chester Womans’ club is planning on 
two outings this summer, the first 
July 12, to be a basket picnic at Bass 
Rocks, Gloucester; the second Aug- 
ust 2, to be a trip to Marblehead. 
At the annual meeting of the Sub- 
urban Press association of New Eng- 
land, Monday afternoon, Editor 
Marshall of this town was re-elected 
president. 
“Two-NuMBER” ‘Tout CALLS. 
Various reductions in rates or ex- 
tensions of talking periods are an- 
nounced by the New England ‘Tele- 
phone and Telegraph Company in 
connection with a change in the 
method of handling short-haul toll 
calls. 
After May 1 toll calls to most 
points within 15 miles of any ex- 
change will be handled by what is 
known as the “two-number no-delay 
method.” This obviates the neces- 
sity of referring the call to the toll 
operator and the somewhat cumber- 
some process of having her ask a lot 
of questions, such as “Whom do you 
wish to speak to?” “If Mr. So-and- 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER TRUST CO. 
Capital, $100,000 
You are invited to make use of the am 
Manchester, Mass. 
BANKING HOURS 
Daily except Saturday 8.30 A. M. to 2.30 P. M. Saturday 8.30 A.M. to1 P.M. Saturday evening for receiving deposits only, 7 to 8. 
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So is out will you talk to any one 
else?” “Who will speak at your tele- 
phone?” and so on. 
Under the old method of operating, 
these questions were unavoidable be- 
cause the answers were being jotted 
down by a recording clerk who in 
turn sent the slip containing these 
directions to the toll operator. Nat- 
urally this process consumed a good 
deal of valuable time, and time is a 
very important consideration in the 
transaction of business affairs in this 
swiftly-moving country. 
After carefully observing the re- 
sults throughout the territory for 
slightly shorter distances the tele- 
phone people concluded they could 
handle calls up to, and including 15 
miles just as local calls are now han- 
dled, that is, by number. Instead of 
calling for some particular person, 
therefore, and being subjected to the 
exhaustive cross-examination of the 
toll recording operator, the caller 
must ask his local operator for the 
number he desires and then hold the 
receiver to his ear until the person 
at the other end responds. 
responds. 
In some places the work of supply- 
ing the necessary extra cable will not 
have been completed in time to per- 
mit the operation of this No-Delay 
System on May 1, but will be put into 
effect as soon as possible. 
Under the old plan, one could call 
for a particular party and be charged 
a reduced rate if this party were not 
on hand to answer. ‘This practice 
will be abandoned under the new sys- 
tem of handling toll calls whose ra- 
dius is not more than 15 miles from 
the calling exchange. All calls will 
have to be made by number, but if 
for any reason the number desired 
does not answer there will be no 
charge for the call. 
Wherever this new plan has been 
tried it is said to have given great 
satisfaction to subscribers, inasmuch 
as connections are made in less than 
one-tenth the time consumed in the 
old toll routine, 
Ou ) ple banking facilities provided for Manchester 
and vicinity by the opening of the Manchester ‘Trust Company, which will take place on Monday, 
Come in and inspect our banking rooms. 
Interest Department in which interest on all 
( sums from $1.00 up will be paid. | 
Daily balances will receive interest. 
25 
Surplus, $25,000 
After carefully tabulating calls 
covering extended periods, the tele- 
phone people found that of what are 
known as “particular party calls,” in 
other words calls for a designated 
person, in 89 per cent of the cases the 
party wanted was found at the 
other end of the line or within easy 
reach, while in an additional six 
per cent of particular party calls the 
call was completed to some other 
person as a satisfactory substitute. 
It is calculated from this ratio, there- 
fore, that even the comparatively 
small number of particular party calls 
would benefit by the changes an- 
nounced, while on toll calls as a whole 
there would be a decided reduction in 
cost as well as an increase in effi- 
ciency. 
It is said by those conversant with 
the matter that it will not be long 
before this “two-number” system of 
handling toll calls will be extended to 
apply between points 40 to 50 miles 
distant, and even between such places 
as Boston and New York, where 
there is a heavy toll traffic. 
Points in this locality favorably 
affected by a reduction in rate from 
15 to 10 cents or an extension of the 
three-minute period to five minutes 
are as follows: Rockport, Glouces- 
ter, Marblehead, Salem, Peabody, 
Beverly, Danvers, Hamilton, Ipswich, 
Topsfield, Saugus and Lynn. 
MiIcHAEL G. REvELAS RESTRAINED 
FROM ENGAGING IN FRuIt 
3USINESS. 
At the superior court, sitting in 
Salem on Friday morning, a perma- 
nent injunction was granted by Judge 
Schofield to Peter T. Voutiritsa, re- 
straining Michael G. Revelas from 
carrying on the fruit and confection- 
ery business either for himself or as 
partner with another or as employee 
for another in the town of Manches- 
ter until April 16, 1918. 
Clifford B. Terry appeared for 
Voutiritsa, J. Manuel Marshall for 
Revelas. 
