Message Bureau

Suppose a telephone rings in an empty office. How can the businessman know who has been calling him during his absence?

Suppose a telephone rings in an apartment when the owner is present; but, for reasons of his own, he does not wish to answer the telephone. How can he satisfy his curiosity as to who was calling him?

The Telephone Message Bureau of New York City, founded last week, solves these questions. It has made arrangements with the New York Telephone Co. to have the names of Message Bureau subscribers listed in the telephone directory with instructions that, if no one answers the phone, the Message Bureau (Susquehanna 4500) should be called. There, the message is taken and mailed to the subscriber. Or, he can telephone to the Message Bureau for it, if he desires.

Subscribers are charged five cents for each message received at the bureau--with a minimum service fee of $1 a year. Fifty girls at the bureau can handle 10,000 messages a day.