. Telephones and telegraphs: 1902 : [and Municipal electric fire alarm and police patrol systems] . stands also among the first in the numberof manufacturers of telephonic apparatus. Telephones in urban centers.—During the past tenyears there has been a very rapid and wide extensionof telephone service in the rural districts, but, otherthings being equal, the industry has shown the greatestgrowth in the states having the largest population,and has reached its maximum development in theleading cities. In 1900 there were in continentalUnited States 1,157 incorporated urban centers with4,000 or m
. Telephones and telegraphs: 1902 : [and Municipal electric fire alarm and police patrol systems] . stands also among the first in the numberof manufacturers of telephonic apparatus. Telephones in urban centers.—During the past tenyears there has been a very rapid and wide extensionof telephone service in the rural districts, but, otherthings being equal, the industry has shown the greatestgrowth in the states having the largest population,and has reached its maximum development in theleading cities. In 1900 there were in continentalUnited States 1,157 incorporated urban centers with4,000 or more inhabitants. Of these, 1,002 were pro-vided in 1902 with telephone systems of some descrip-tion. In 137 of these towns the service was controlledby companies operating independently of the Amer-ican Telephone and Telegraph Company, while in 414the system was in the hands of that company, and in451 telephone service was offered both by the Amer-ican Telephone and Telegraph system and by anindependent one. Table 32 shows the statistics of population pertelephone for the 14 principal TELEPHONE TRAFFIC. 27 Table 32.—Estimated population, number of telephones, and averagepopulation per telephone for the largest fourteen cities: 1902. New York Chicago , St. Louis Boston Baltimore Cleveland Buffalo San Francisco. Cincinnati Milwaukee Detroit New Estimatedpopulation. 3,623,1601,815,4451,343,043699,932683,376523,861403,032371,731351,540329,590304,965301,670296,118283,551 Number ofstations ortelephones. 93,30160,94846,39319,22830,20215,18124,80912,38638,03113,62710,76512,5367,1588,061 Averagepopula-tion pertelephone. Table 32 indicates that San Francisco, with 1 tele-phone to 9 persons, was the best telephoned city inthe United States. Next to San Francisco was Cleve-land, with 1 telephone for every 16 persons. Theseabundant facilities are accounted for by the factthat there are in Cleveland 2 large exchanges—oneoperated by the Clev
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