. Electrical world. FIG. 9.— AND IXTERMEJ)I.\TE DL^TRlnUTING .\XD REL.^Y ,E.\ST BRANCH EXCHANGE. Operators positions each. It has a present equipment of 1,200 lines,with 120 desk lines, also 100 incoming trunk and 12 desk lines. Pro-vision has been made for an ultimate capacity of 7,200 main lines. Branch exchange B, known as the South office, is located in thesouthern residence portion of Kansas City, Mo. The switchboardin this exchange consists of five sections of three operators posi-tions each, and the present equipment consits of 700 lines, with 80outgoing trunk and 20 desk li
. Electrical world. FIG. 9.— AND IXTERMEJ)I.\TE DL^TRlnUTING .\XD REL.^Y ,E.\ST BRANCH EXCHANGE. Operators positions each. It has a present equipment of 1,200 lines,with 120 desk lines, also 100 incoming trunk and 12 desk lines. Pro-vision has been made for an ultimate capacity of 7,200 main lines. Branch exchange B, known as the South office, is located in thesouthern residence portion of Kansas City, Mo. The switchboardin this exchange consists of five sections of three operators posi-tions each, and the present equipment consits of 700 lines, with 80outgoing trunk and 20 desk lines and 75 incoming trunk lines and9 desk trunks. Branch exchange C, known as the West office, islocated in the business district of Kansas City, Kan. The boardat this exchange is at present equipped for 800 lines with 60 out-. FH;. 10. — POWER PL.\XT, EXCHAXGE. going trunk and 20 desk lines and 75 incoming trunk lines and gdesk trunks. The entire equipment of the exchanges was fumishedby the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, ofChicago and Rochester, and the plants were built by the CentralTelephone Construction Company, of Toledo, under the personalsupervision of the chief engineer of the Kansas City Home TelephoneCompany. Mr. W. C. Polk. It may be of interest to note that the rates fixed by the ordinancein Kansas City, Mo., are $54 for business telephones and $36 forresidence telephones, until January i, 1907, when the company hasthe privilege of increasing the business rate to $60 per year. In Kansas City, Kan., the business rates are $54 and the residence rates$48 within a radius of 2y2 miles from the business district, and thecompany is entitled to charge an additional $6 per mile per instru-ment for each additional mile or fraction thereof for extensionsbeyond this radi
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