wireless telegraph system of the territory, and through that with the Pacific cable, and as every house is supplied with a telephone, the whole community gets the benefit of the news of the world. The system was built by the territorial board of health for the benefit, more particularly, of the leper settlement on Molokai; but when the legislature neglected to appropriate money for its maintenance the people assumed the responsibility of maintaining it themselves. It is operated without the assistance of a "central" station, and any telephone may be called up, the superintendent of the leper settlement being the only one who has the power to cut off any section of the circuit. Perhaps the only telephone system existing anywhere approximating in correspondence that of Molokai is the one which the farmers of Illinois established some years ago. That was an Independent service in which the barbed wire fences on the farms were utilized as telephone lines. All of the farmers within a given radius were in the alliance, which was organized for mutual benefit and as a means of defense against the aggressions and impositions of the Bell company. The Molokai system seems to be an improvement, however, on that adopted by the Illinois farmers. SANTA'S TELEPHONE. By Luella Wilson Smith. Now what do you think, my children, dear Santa has gotten a 'phone, So that all your Christmas wishes may be more clearly known. And where do you think he has put it? Right fast to the great North Pole. No messenger fees to bother, for this is a wireless 'phone, You don't have to ring up "Central," nor even say "Hullo!" And how do you talk to Santa over this wireless 'phone? Speak aloud your Christmas wishes, and the frosty evening air You may not then hear his answer, but wait till the Christmas tree Is lighted with tiny candles, and many gifts you will see. Then you'll surely know that he heard you, for he brings to each girl and boy A lap-full of Christmas treasures. a heart full of Christmas joy. turing Company; Joseph C. Belden, Wallace D. Rumsey, Belden Manufacturing Company; Seymour Guthrie, Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company; S. E. Kennedy, Central Electric Company; George Cutter, Cutter Manufacturing Company; Thomas R. Mercine, Northwestern Electrical Association; Ed J. Mock, Telephony Publishing Company; G. V. Crosby, Chicago Edison Company; H. J. Peters, Frank Horton, A. J. L. Cuylar, Moran & Hastings Manufacturing Company; E. M. Spelman, National Carbon Company, Cleveland; Charles Kearney, Guarantee Electric Company; H. T. Asbury, Chicago Electric Manufacturing Company; Frank S. Beardslee, Beardslee Chandelier Manufacturing Company; F. M. Bernardin, B. R. Electric Company, Kansas City; W. D. Packard, Warren, Ohio; W. N. Mathews, W. N. Mathews & Brother, St. Louis; M. T. Osborn, Kansas City; F. M. Pierce, manager, Manhattan Electrical Supply Company; George S. Searing, Peru Electrical Manufacturing Company; B. Downs, president, St. Paul Electric Company, St. Paul; Henry L. Walker, Henry L. Walker Company, Detroit; M. B. Austin, M. B. Austin & Company; Waller Vose, Chicago; J. W. Porter, M. W. H. Berg, Porter & Berg; Frank G. Jones, American Electric Fuse Company; E. R. Gilmore, Western Electric Company; James Wolff, New York Insulated Wire Company; Carl Keith, Illinois Electric Company; Martin Newgard, Henry New B. gard & Company; W. H. Beattys, Jr., Catlin Hammer Company; A. O. Kuhmsted, Gregory Electric Company; J. S. Maurer, Hart & Company; Henry Newgard, Henry Newgard & Company; J. H. Quincy, F. S. Simpson, H. W. Johns-Manville Company; R. P. Brown, Interstate Supply Company; William M. Smith, Chicago Insulated Wire Company; Charles Messer, Dearborn Electric Company; James Clark, Jr., James Clark, Jr., & Company; Thomas G. Grier, American Circular Company; R. E. Bain, American Electrical Novelty Manufacturing Company; N. B. Leavell, W. S. Edwards Manufacturing Company; A. G. Munro, E. J. Sullivan, Nebraska Electric Company, Omaha; J. A. Erner, Erner Electric Company; R. W. Hodge, Hodge-Walsh Electrical Engineering Company; C. T. Smelzer, Nungesser Electric Battery Company; H. Schwab, Monarch Electric and Wire Company; George S. Whyte, MacOmber & Whyte; W. R. Johnson, Manhattan Electrical Supply Company; John W. Neil, Electric Appliance Company; Frederic Greer, Harvard Electric Company, Chicago; Albert Smith, Electric Supply Co., Milwaukee; F. Overbagh, Chicago; P. Stern, Interstate Electric Company, Ltd.; A. S. Doxsie, A. S. Doxsie Electrical Company; William A. Corrao, Acme Electrical Appliance Company; Frank E. Ayres, Overbagh & Ayres Manufacturing Company; Arthur Jones, Arthur Jones Company; H. B. McMeal, Telephony Publishing Company. THE LUNDQUIST SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC EXCHANGES. T HE Lundquist system, as exemplified in patent Number 776,524, issued December 6, deserves particular attention because of its relationship to exchanges of large sizes. Although exchanges are operating on the general principle of the Lundquist system, the diagram of this patent is the first public illustration showing the manner of carrying it out. A quotation from the description given in the patent, taken with the accompanying diagram, which is also from the patent, will serve to explain the system as set forth by its inventor. The difference between direct connections between the switch belonging to one telephone and similar switches belonging to other telephones, and connections through auxiliary switches in the manner shown, may be illustrated as follows: With a switch having 100 contact points in one group in direct connection the capacity will be for 100 telephones. If, however, I use the same switches in ten groups of 100 in each group (then supply ten auxiliary switches for each group), I have 1,100 switches, each of which has 100 contact points in one of its groups. If I made the same switches for 1,000 capacity by direct connection I should have to have 1,000 contact points in each group. There would, therefore, be for direct connection 1,000 X 1,000, equal to 1,000,000 contact points on the switches to accomplish this result. By the grouping method, however, using auxiliary switches, I have 1,100 switches with 100 contact points each, which will give a total number of contact points of 110,000 as against 1,000,000 contact points. Before describing the circuits in detail, I will refer more particularly to the system |