The growth of the Bell System, its broader usefulness and resulting prosperity, are shown in the annual report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for 1912 by the financial statement and other comparative statistics. At the end of the year 1912 there was a total of 7,456,074 subscriber stations, of which 2,502,627 were operated by connecting companies. The Bell toll lines now reach 70,000 places, which is 5,000 more than the number of post offices and 10,000 more than the number of railroad stations in the United States. The total wire mileage has been increased to nearly 14,610,813 miles, of which over half is underground, and the new 450-mile subway between Boston and Washington has been completed. The traffic over the Bell lines shows a daily average of 25,572,345 or at the rate of 8,950,000,000 connections a year. There was spent in plant additions $76,626,900 in the year. There was applied to maintenance and reconstruction during the year $66,705,000, making a total provision for the last ten years of $409,000,000. Total Miles of Wire. 675,415 1,961,801 Comprising Toll Wire. Comprising Exchange Wire. Total... 5,779,918 11,642,212 12,932,615 14,610,813 1,678,198 215,687 607,599 1,265,236 1,963,994 2,060,514 2,189,163 128,649 459,728 1,354,202 4,514,682 9,678,218 10,872,101 12,421,650 1,549,549 675,415 1,961,801 5,779,918 11,642,212 12,932,615 14,610,813 1,678,198 Exchange Connections Daily. Toll Connections Daily. *Includes Private Line Stations. 2,351,420 5,668,986 13,543,468 21,681,471 23,483,770 25,572,345 2,088,575 51,123 148,528 368,083 602,539 644,918 737,823 92,905 BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES. COMPARATIVE EARNINGS AT FIVE YEAR INTERVALS, 1885-1912. Year 1885. Year 1890. Year 1895. Year 1900. Year 1905. Year 1910. Year 1912. PRINTERS' MARKS. s.C. 711 It does not appear that the earliest printers had e any method of correcting errors before the form 1 was on the press/ The learned The learned correctors of the first two centuries of printing were. not proofreaders in our sense/they were rather what we should Jerm office editors. Their labors not were chiefly to see that the proof corresponded to the copy, but that the printed page was correct in its latinity/that the words were there, and stet. that the sense was right. They cared little about orthography, bad letters or purely printerfre errors, and when the text seemed to them wrong they consulted fresh authorities or altered it on their own responsibility. Good proofs in the not# modern sense, were possible until professional readers were employed/ men who hadi first] a tr printer's education, and then spent many years in the correction of proof. The orthography of English, which for the past century has under gone little change, was very fluctuating until after the publication of Johnson's Dictionary, and capi i tals, which have been used with considerable reglead spell ularity for the past 80 years, were previously used tr on the [miss for hit plan. The approach to reguit larity, so far as we have may be attributed to the growth of a class of professional proof readers, and If it 9/2 7 os eq. # Equalize spacing. = or s. e. Le Bor 1 or ital, Italic. rom. Roman. Brackets. Parentheses. r/f/rom. ކ 155/22 it is to them that we owe the correctness of mod ern printing. A More er/ors have been found in the Bible than in any other one work. For many gen lead. h [mental interference. They were frequently Out, see copy had become disgusted with the continual asser. ans 1 tion of the superiority of man over woman which 4/2 NUMBER OF WORDS AND EMS TO THE SQUARE INCH. over. CHAPTER XII. POST OFFICE AFFAIRS.* PART I. STATISTICAL INFORMATION. UNITED STATES POST OFFICE. SUMMARY OF ALL CLASSES DOMESTIC MAIL SERVICE IN OPERATION 3.409 226,071.02 458,648,623.77 RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION. SERVICE AND EXPENDITURE. Number of routes.. Length of routes, miles. Annual travel, miles. Annual rate of expenditure $46,336,293.86 Average rate of cost per mile of length.. Average rate of cost per mile traveled, cents. Average number of trips per week.. 204.96 10.10 19.51 On June 30, 1912, there were in operation 159 full railway post-office lines, manned by 1.607 crews of 8,066 clerks (including 161 acting clerks). Of these 159 full lines, 141 had by 1,040 apartment-car service, manned (Continued on page 324.) *This chapter is divided into two parts: the first gives statistics relative to the Post Office Affairs of the United States and the World, the second deals with information relative to rates, etc., domestic and foreign and the "Parcel Post." Revised through the courtesy of Postmaster-General Burleson. (Continued from page 323.) Of the 1,388 full railway post-office cars in use and in reserve, 545 are all-steel cars, 182 steel-underframe cars, and 661 wooden cars, and of the 4,029 apartment cars in use and in reserve, 181 are all-steel cars, 221 steel-underframe cars, and 3,627 wooden cars. During the fiscal year the department has permitted further experimental aeroplane mail service. There have been 31 orders issued permitting the mail to be carried between certain points by aeroplanes. Such service was merely temporary and was not intended to be permanent. In each instance where the mail has been carried the service has been performed by a sworn carrier and without cost to the department. Such service was authorized in 16 different States. Reports received of the performance of the service by aeroplanes under the various orders issued permitting such service indicate that in many instances service was performed in a reasonable satisfactory manner. MAIL SERVICE IN OPERATION YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912. COMPARISON OF REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1912, WITH THOSE OF THE PRECEDING YEAR. EXPENDITURES, APPROPRIATIONS AND ESTIMATES FOR ALL 1 Star service, except in Alaska, transferred to office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. ? Includes $123,200 made immediately available for deficiency for fiscal year 1912. United States The postal business of all states of the world. Annual number of delivered pieces of mail (internal, international and transit) in thousands (1906/1907). America: 14,643,129 Asia: 2,677,498 26,090 StraitsSett Françe Jegan 15,100 Fr. Indo China and oth Poss 446.08 Bru thousand piece 806.000 Portugar Be fum Denmark Serbien Kiau-Chau 2,190 Siam with Bosnia Norway Indies 1,890 171,210 Ceylon 102 Samos 6,460 2,233,000 thousand piech land 1,168 Brazil Canada 322,360 Bolivia 4,420 3,130 Nicaragua 2.620 Salvador 2,120 Bermudas 2,050 French Guiana 1,968 • 410 Haiti 350 St. Pierre 30,300 Africa: 367,245 thousand pieces. Luxemburg Algeria Australia: 705,987 thousand pieces Australia Hawaii • Fiji Islands with New Zealand 693,000 7,110 1,850 a French Poss. a German Poss. Cape Colony Natal Tunis Transvaal Col. 5,320 French Turkey Rumania 42,720 North Borneo 151,250 33,760 Greece 79,600 Egypt 1,530 Angola 33,450 Malta and 42,660 Montenegro |