*** Source: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, San Francisco Telephone Directory, February 1893. *** ---page 001--- SAN FRANCISCO TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. 1 GENERAL INFORMATION. Subscribers at any Exchange can be placed in direct speaking communication with each other or with any subscriber at another Exchange or Public Station. Non-subscribers can have the same service by application at any of our Offices or Public Stations, and paying the established public rates. Subscribers are not permitted to allow non-subscribers to use their telephones, such use being in violation of their written contracts. When it is desired to have a non-subscriber called into one of our public offices at a distant place, a messenger will be sent for him at the expense of the party ordering the service. Subscribers can send messages, between the hours of 8 a. m. and 6 p. m., to be written out by the receiving operator and delivered in the same city for 25 cents for a message of 20 words or less, except between San Francisco and Butchertown; this tariff is 25 cents for 10 words and 2 cents for each additional word. At other hours a SPECIAL charge may be made for delivery. First write out your message, then call for Telephone No. 910 and transmit to that operator, requiring him to repeat it back to you to guard against errors. Subscribers at any point having ordinary cause of complaint, will please call up the Inspector (Telephone No. 85) and state the case. Complaints made to Central Office operators will probably not be attended to, as they have no time to do so. ----------------- SPECIAL NOTICE. This Company desires to give the best service possible, and will correct faults when discovered, but owing to the extreme sensitiveness of the telephone to many disturbing causes the instruments may operate unsatisfactorily without our knowledge. We can only learn of it from the subscriber, therefore you are earnestly requested to promptly report any difficulty to the Local Inspector (No. 85), and any apparent neglect by operators to the General Manager or Superintendent at San Francisco, by mail. If you can hear the Central office operator speaking to you and cannot make him hear you, the difficulty is probably in your transmitting instrument. In that case try speaking through the hand telephone, which is also a transmitter. Always return the hand telephone to its proper place after use; otherwise the Central Office cannot call you and your battery will be speedily exhausted so that you cannot talk through your transmitter. --------------------------------------------------------------- TELEPHONE MESSAGES DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF THE CITY--CALL 910. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The Mail is Quick, the Telegraph is Quicker but the LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE is Instantaneous, and you Don't Have to Wait for an Answer. --------------------------------------------------------------- ---end---