Striking Success of the Automatic System Stockholm, Feb, 17.
According to a recent estimate made by the Swedish Government Telephone Department, the city of Stockholm has 29 telephones to every 100 inhabitants, and is in respect surpassed only by Francisco with 31 telephones for, every hundred.
Automatic telephone exchanf@ are gradually being installed and have been thoroughly tried out during'the last few years with ex~ cellent, results. 'The percentage of faults registered for telephone' calls between subscribers with automat instruments was 8 99, of which 7.68 were caused through mistakes by the subscribers themselves.—Reuter,
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