New Phones Will Be Connected in Next Four Weeks

That long wait for a telephone is almost over. Students with applications pending will get their phones within three weeks, the Bell Company promised yesterday.

The Company plans to open a new exchange on Saturday, October 16. Constructed in a wing of the present office, these switchboards will cover the back-log of 2000 applications that has been piling up for the past year.

Maintenance men will start installing phones on the 16th, and promise to finish the job within a week. From now on, the Company promises, new orders will be filled in a day or two. Students who haven't yet applied should do so soon if they hope to see their name in the coming Boston directory.

Most of the new telephones will be on a University-4 extension, which now has enough vacant plug-ins to cover any possible need in the next few years. A smaller number of phones will be on the old Eliot, Trowbridge, and Kirkland circuits.