Saved by the Bell - a Business Solution

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After a few more weeks of lost customers, however, I decided I had to have that bell, no matter what the cost. So I called another equipment supply company (this firm was in Phoenix), and those folks charged me only $55.59 for the bell, hose, and shipping expenses . . . and sent the material on its way to me the same day! I had to take a quickie bank loan to cover my check, but the system paid for itself within a week, thanks to the increased amount of business I was able to handle. (Since then, I've found a supply house that sells gong and hose sets—in lengths of 50 or 100 feet—for a fraction of even the price I paidl You can get a catalog listing the equipment by writing to: J.C. Whitney & Co., Dept. TMEN, 1917—19 Archer Avenue, Box 8410, Chicago, Illinois 60680.)

My signal bell runs on regular AC household current, but it can also be adapted to work on DC. The only difficulty I encountered while installing the device was drilling a hole—to accommodate the hosethrough the 18-inch adobe walls of my house. (Since I have only a 12inch masonry drill, I had to go at the job from both sides of the wall and aim carefullyl)

Now, with my built-in "alarm" system, I can read or write or eat or do household repairs without jumping up at the sound of every car that goes by. When anyone drives over that hose-even on a bicyclethere's no doubt of his or her arrival . . . the bell in my living room clangs as loudly as a pinball machine scoring 40,000 pointsl

My simple device has saved me a lot of steps and a lot of lost customers. In fact, you might even say that my one-man enterprise was "saved by the bell"!

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