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'OCEAN 10 GCEA« TELEPHONE SERVICE ACHIEVED First Message From New York to San Francisco Historic Event Celebrated With A. G. Bell at Atlantic End and T. A. Watson at the Pacific End of Line NEW FORK, January 25. — This afternoon the voice of man waa made to leap across the continent — New York and San Francisco were connected by tele phone. Impressively, almost rolemnly.Alexander Graham Bell, a big whitehaired man whose full white beard gives him a typical, patriarchal look, spoke the first words over the span of 3400 miles. In San Francisco there sat. listening to this first trans-continental message, the man who almost forty years ago heard Dr. Bell speak the first words that ever traveled over a wire. This man was Thomas a. Watson. Dr. Bell's assistant when ha Invented the telephone In 1875. Small wonder that few of those who witnessed this formal opening of the new continent-spanning line ' conld restrain their emotions. Here was history In the making as well as a confirmation of that oft-spoken phrase that history repeats Itself. Here were these two men who. la their youth, had conoelved and created the epoch-making telephone — an Achievement the greatness of which Is reserved for the few— here were they, testing the crowning achievement of the telephone engineers who. following In the footsteps of the Inventor and his assistant, took the first little telephone and created for 1 It lines and switchboards and Innumerable pieces of apparatus until speech ean now be speeded across the entire nation from ocean to ocean. This Indeed Was a wonderful fulfillment to be crowded Into the short space of a man's Ilfe-tlrae. Such were the thoughu of those who witnessed this -Impressive Inaugural of the trans-continental telephone service In the office of the President of the American Telephone and* Telegraph Company at 10 Dey Street. Among those who witnessed the formal opening by Dr. Bell, and who afterward talked to "Frisco, were Mayor Mitcliel. other city officials, members of the various civic bodies and other prominent persons to the number of about one hundred. There were besides a number of telephone officials Including J. J. Carty. Chief Engineer of the Bell System, under whose direction the new line was constructed: B. Gherardl, another prominent telephone engineer, and Thomas B. Doolittle. who developed hard drawn copper wire. In San Francisco, beside Mr. Watson, there were the Mayor, the President of the Panama-Pacific. Exposition and a small group of other much-Interested At the White House President Wilson a

epoke Into the mouthpiece of his telephone and his voice was whirled across thirteen States to the shores of the Pacific. Theodore N. Vail, the President of the I > American Telephone and Telegraph Com- 1 pany. was unable to be present but special arrangements a-ere made which permitted him to be connected with the trans-continental line from his stopping I place at Jekyll Island on the Florida coast. In this way he was able to con- ; verse with Dr. Bell and- Mr. Watson and thus three men who have contributed ' much to the making of telephone history ' were all "present," although separated by hundreds of miles, at this significant event. "Ahoy! Ahoy! Can you hear me?" I asked Dr. Bell, and i-,. i-tlv there was . a murmur in the receiver audible to everyone In the room. Out In San Francisco In the offices of the Pacific Telephone A Telegraph Con, pony. Thomas A. Watson had lieard the voire of his oldtime associate ttignalllng In the manner . they had employed In their earliest ex- i pertinents, and had answered: "I can' hear perfectly." The telcphpne used by Dr. Bell |n his . talk was the same crude Instrument ' which transmitted the first message, and i there was an added touch of sentiment ' in the fact that there had been spliced to the line some of the wire which was used In the first sustained talk almost 4» years ago. The original telephone which Is a curious -looking contraption with a thin membrane of gold-beater's skin stretched taut for a diaphragm. Is still capable of transmitting the voice, but no one familiar with the telephone of to-day would have called this crude Instrument by that name. It was stated that since the first telephone of Bell there have been placed In use and discarded In the process of evolution to the efficient instrument of today. seventy-three styles of transmitter and fifty -three types of receiver. The new line Is the culmination of a constant progression towards longer and longer distance* in telephoning. J. J. Carty and the olher engineers of the Bell System, to whom the credit for this new triumph of science Is due, can point out no single phase or Invention which has made trans-continental telephoning possible. Constant improvements In lines, cable, switchboards, receivers and transmitters. and a multitude of other apparatus. have brought about the ultimate result seen to-day. One would think that merely the extension of the lines a few hundred miles further from the Salt Lake City point reached a short time "ago. on to Frisco was all that was necessary. But that Is not true. In almost every step that has been made in the development of longdistance telephony from the first twomile line reaching out of Boston to Cambridge on through all the advance* - first to Providence then New York In 1888: then New York to Chicago In 1892; then Omaha: then Denver, and finally the coast— in every added span new difficulties hsve had to be met — new problems have arisefi to be overcome. The new ooast to coast line has only been constructed after the expense of a vast sum of money and the taxing to the utmost of the powers of the 650 or so engineers and scientists who solve the telephone orobleirts of the Bell System. The ll~ -tself has required over 180,000 poles and 6.800 miles of very heavy hard drawn copper wire were used for and guard the diminutive tel«phone"eerrsat used In talking, whleh la ee

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" President of the American T. and T. Co. • ,r that It is hardly more than a breath—M to preserve Its slightest vibration so that lt Jt may speed across the continent In j_ 1/l"th of a second and reglsler as sound a 3.400 miles away, has required tne lnw stallatlou of many sorts of apparatus, n a description of which would only con- • a fuse a layman, l.'ven the Insulators are ^ Of a special kind, 1 eing made of porcelain a Instead of glasa. B Here are some figures In connection I a with the New York-San Francisco line , K for the lovers of statistics: a Length of line, 3.400 miles. Route: e From San Francisco to Salt Lake City, , 770 miles: from Salt I-ake City to Denj ver. 580 miles" from Denver to Omaha i Ij 585 miles: from Omaha to Chicago. 500 r I miles. At Chicago the line branches. I one branch going to Pittsburgh, 543 I , miles, and thei: to New York. 300 miles I . from Pittsburgh. The other branch 1 j goes from Chicago to Buffalo. 603 mile* j a and then down to New York. 350 miles. I B There is a continuation of the line J from Buffalo to Boston. 463 miles long. ' a From Pittsburgh there Is a continuation I f extending to Baltimore, 250 miles away. | , on to Washington, 205 mile* Philadel- I , Phla is reached by a branch from the ] line extending from Pittsburgh to N^w j t York, connecting at Newlown Square. | This opening of the new line was .- merely foriuaf, us ii win nol be thrown . j of final details have been compl-ted. An " thoae present In New York asked :he ■ man with whom he was permitted to , talk In San Francisco. If he wouldn't i ,v» | dinner with him. "When?" asked 'Frls.-o j "At once." was the reply. "Why. yon re j early, aren't you? I've Just had lunch ' and It's only a little after one," bo id the Pacific Coast man. "Your clock Is wrong." spoke up' Mr. New York, "it's I after four o'clock here." Then they^both | realized the difference In time, between I the eastern melropolls and the city of

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