NEW YORK TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 9

NEW YORK TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

Over 400,000 Names Listed

The summer edition of the New York telephone directory came out in June, a bit more gay than the 1935 winter number put out last December, says the “New York Times.”

The new edition has 413,000 listings of names, addresses and telephous numbers in its 1042 pages. It beats the December book by 5000 listingsand 12 pages. Statisticians at the telephone company have figured out that the total summer issue of 548,000 copies would fit snugly on a shelf 11} miles long—if they made shelves that long. Earth-bound New Yorkers who like to send their imaginations soaring out toward distant horizons may get a mild thrill out of the rates for conversation with overseas points, printed on page seven. The high spots are 39 dollars for three minutes to Bombay, Cape Town or Batavia (Java). The rate to Batavia, N.Y., is much less, of course.

Under the listing “Cohen—see also Coan, Cohan, Cohn and Kohn”—the Cohens and Cohns fill a little over 19 columns, just as they did in the winter book. The Kelleys and Kellys hold their own with five columns, and the Smiths stand fast, too, with about 15} columns.

The Joneses, though, seem to have lost a bit of ground—about an eighth of a column or so—and cover less than six columns. The Browns and Brownes are two columns up, 13} in the summer issue against 11} in the December volume.

“AAA (Automobile Club of New York)” clings to first listing in th* summer issue, though the AAAAAA Ace Box Company made a brave bid for it. Why the box outfit, with six “A’s” against three, should get only third place the telephone company man did not seem to know. Last place still belongs to “Zzye The," a fraternity house at 33 West Forty-fourth Street. They have held it for years. In a publicity footnote the telephone company warns subscribers to give the old winter book a thorough going-over before parting with it. It seems that a lot of persons leave banknotes, deeds, bankbooks, leases, insurance policies, letters, birth certificates and even neckties (put them between the leaves for an ironing and forget them) in the books.