he bya clerk, assisted by four messenger boys or ‘‘ pages.” the magnitude of this hotel, whose main fagade, six- description of the pneumatic dispatch service. The equipment for electric signals, electric annun- When the hotel mail is delivered at the office, that teen stories, or 250 feet in… … the long row of transmitters the connections are made in is located. The main to such manner that a call from the local stations extends any room in the hotel is re- the full height of the build- corded, not only at the floor ing, and has a local branch office of the corresponding extending to each…
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