ROUGH HANDLING

Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 16

ROUGH HANDLING

TELEPHONE BOOKS IN NEW YORK Official evidence suggests that the users of public telephones in Britain are gentler, lighter-lingered, less passionate, and less hectic than their brothers and sisters in the United States, states ‘ News-Chronicle ’ in a special article. ' Such violence is emp.oyed in a phone box on the corner of ‘ Times ’ Square, New York—the most used box in the United States—that the telephone directory books there have to be changed every 96 hours. An official of the London telephone service was shocked at the news. “ Why, in the average public callbox here,’' he said, “the books last six months. . “ The most-used phone boxes in London are at Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus; and even here it is only occasionally that directories have to be renewed at intervals of a week or fortnight.”