Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14756124932)

Identifier: belltelephonemag11amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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8,800 67,102 29.3 Total 34 cities with 200,000 to 500,000 population.... 10,228,400 2,204,289 21.6Total 52 cities with more than 200,000 population.. 36,758,900 8,685,401 23.6 * Partly estimated. t There are shown, for purposes of comparison with cities in other countries, the total developmentof all cities in the United States in certain population groups and the development of certain repre-sentative cities within each of such groups. BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY age development of all cities (fifty-two) in this country withmore than 200,000 population was 23.6, a figure which exceedsthat for any single large foreign city except Stockholm andToronto. Chicago, with its 981,325 telephones, had a develop-ment of 28.7, while the corresponding figure for New York,with 1,786,270 telephones, was 25.5. Yet Chicago had lessthan 5 per cent, and New York less than 9 per cent, of the totalnumber of telephone instruments in the United States. Lon- TELEPHONE DEVELOPMENTIN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
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1900 1905 I9IO 1915 1920 1925 1931 January 1st of each year don, on the other hand, had 712,493 telephones, or about 36per cent of all the instruments in Great Britain; Paris, with400,528 telephones, had 35 per cent of all the instruments inFrance. More than one fourth of all the telephones in Ger-many were located in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg-Altona,Leipzig and Munich. These figures, in other words, bring outstill more emphatically the fact that in foreign countries tele-phone facilities are largely concentrated in the urban areas,despite the cognate fact that even these cities are less gener-ously provided with telephone service than are American cities. 284 Notes on Recent Occurrences BELL SYSTEM PUBLICITY CONFERENCES ON March IS and 16 the Publicity Managers of the EasternGroup of Associated Companies of the Bell System metin New York for a conference on matters pertaining to adver-tising and public relations, and on March 22 and 23 a similarmeeting was held in Chicago attende