The daily gazette., 1878-04-04
Long-Rapge Chatting
BDisoN AND PRESIDENT ORION In NEW
YORK TALKING TO PEOPLE AT raIRp
AND CHEsTNUT.

bDioOn AND PRESIDENT ORION I'M NEW
YORK TALKING TO PEOPLE AT rsIRn
AND cHEsTNUT.
On several occasions telephone COM
munication has been established bet weer
Philadelphia and New York, and bv I,
musical sounds have been Transmitted
from one city to the other. The instru.
meDt used In those experiments wa.
6ray's musical telephone, which did moi
convey the words that were sung into il
but merely the air. The transmission
OF spoken words by telephone was effect.
cd yesterday for the first time, between
The office Of President Bentley, of the
Local Telegraph Company, In this CITY,
ana the western Union Telegraph build
ing In New York. The instruments
used were Edison's Carbon Tele phone and
Phelps Magnetic Telephone. That start
ling man, Edison. himself, together with
PRESIDE ut Orton and other gentlemen sat
down at the New York end, ninety miles
away, and held a pleasant chat with a
couple dozen persons who occupied
President Bontleys office, and who COM
promised Bachelor Edison's right-hand
man In the experiments, Mr.. Merrihew,
superintendent Of the Western Union
once in this city, and Mr.. G. NJ. Phelps,
Inventor OF the magnetic telephone and
superintendent Of the Western Unions
manufactOry in New York.
The experiments, In so far as the car
Don telephone was concerned, were
highly successful, aud were regarded as
great triumph for that invention on
account OF the fact that the wire brought
into service was one Of the COMPANY Is
many wires running over the dis ance,
which, at the time of the experiments,
were under their greatest pressure of
business.
Edison, having discovered that carbon
Is a better conductor of electricity when
under pressure than when in different
condltlon, saw at once that he could ad-
vantaageously apply the principle to the
telephone. The result was an instru.
ment far more powerful than any other
telephone, and the only one that at pres
ent can give full satisfaction when q great
distance is to be traversed along q wire
subject to the electrical disturbances
above mentioned. But when no such
obstacles are in the way, and especially
when the line of communications is short
any one of the other telephones is prefer.
able to Edison's owing 10 the inconven.
fence of the batteries accompanying the
latter.
LoNG-RANGB CHATTING.
"Hallo halloi Edisonm shouted Mr
Bachelor into the mouthpiece of the car
bon telephone, holding the receiver to
his ear. There were eight other recei.
vers, a few of them being the "Phelps. u
and they were eagerly seized by individ.
uals who initiated the action of Mr.
Bachelor. The "Phelps" received Just
a. well as the other.
"Hollo, Bachelor" returned Eddison
in voice as distinct-to those holding
the receivers-as if he were in the room
"when did you get DOWN."
cat 1910 this morning, and I'm going
back to Menlo Park by the $50 train
Who's with you there and how's the
weather."
"Mr. Orton and lot of other gentle.
men. The weather is charming. Has
Mr.. Phelps arrived yet? l hear you az
we'll rs if you were here"
"Mr. Phelps got here few minutes
ago, and will try his 'magneto' after
awhile. He says he can beat the 'car.
bon"
"Ha, ha, hal" laughed Edison. "All
right he's good fellow. BY the way
don't you want halfa dozen OF my latest?
Invented since you left this morning. II
changes fire clay into rice pudding and
corn meal into gold dust. Warranted
for nine hundred and ninety-nine years. .
Mr.. Bachelor answered: "Mr. Bent.
ley says he wants dozen or SO to OK.
hibit with your phonograph."
GAN right; I'll send them by express
y. o. ID. Let me sing you a classical
song:
At the sixteen years Of age / was my
mothers own dear boy;
She kept little huckster shop her name
it was Malloy.
Ahsml How's that, Batchelor?"
Tho melody came with surprising ac-
ouraoy. 1t was evident that Edison had
found time, while inventing, TO cultivate
his voice. As soon as the eight indivi-
duals who held the receivers could stop
off TO New York went the an
sweI: "Capital. you've get an encore"
'But," returned Edison. "I do moth
Ing but bow for an encore, and think 1
won't be able to telephone you bow for
a day or two yet"
Mr.. Bachelor and Mr.. Edison now
turned their instruments into other
hands, and the wonderful conversation
was maintained for an hour to the
amusement OF everybody. Then the
Phelps telephone was tried. Mr.. Phelps
uttered lot of sentences in quick sue
eession into the mouthpiece and then
He did not hear the reply, but
another gentleman, who had heard it,
turned and addressed Mr.. Phelps with
"Yonve got your II Houth full of mush." !"
Mr.. Phelps Redeemed in the face; 80 did
Mr.. Bentley and some other gentlemen,
who evidently regarded the remark as
an unintentional insult. But the gentle
men of the good ears explained that
what he had said was what the New
Yorker had telephoned, and then there
was a general laugh at the expense of
both sides. The Phelps instrument was
only partially successful, although it
made some transmissions that were dis
tinctly heard and equal in many respects
to those of the carbon telephone.