Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-11-13
TIE TELEPHONE.
DIFFICULTIES WHICH SURROUND
LONG, e-DlsTANcs COMMUNICATION.
Absolutely Perfect Condition of the EIo-
ments Required The Telegraph More
Reliable and kess Troublesome
Inability TO Error.
[oor. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |

[Cor. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Granting that long distance telephone
will be forthcoming. 1t will require an
absolutely perfect condition of the Gle.
ments along the route over which the wire
runs; there must be no rain, no fog, no
sleet nor mist; no moisture In the atfnos-
phere, no electrical storms, and, besides,
there must be invented more perfect
system of insulation of the wires where
they come in contact with the poles than
is used or known at the present time. A
means must also be devised to entirely
overcome induction 4the influence cxerted
by the current on one wire over another
running parallel with and in close prox.
imity), or, in other words, overcome
itself, for wherever you have current
you have also induction, or an induced
current
After all these difficulties have been
overcome there still remain many reasons
why it will not be success
Ii an inferior means of communication
attempts to supplant superior one what
must be the result7
For leng distances the telegraph is as
much superior to the telephone as the
Limited" express trains are superior to q
canalboat-not for single isolated case,
but for the volume Of business that is
daily sent over the Telegraph wires.
A telephone wire between Cincinnati
and New York would be capable Of ac-
commodating not to exceed six customers
per hour, allowing ten minutes to each,
Including the time necessary for calling
the exchange here and for the exchange
to call New York, and for fiat exchange
to ring up the party with whom the
Cincinnati customer desires communica-
ton.
At this rate-a very liberal allowance
only six communications per hour would
be possible, OF seventy odd for every
twelve hourA The great bulk Of COM
munications between these cities is Of q
commercial nature and generally OF much
importance, nearly all Of them requiring
transmission between the hours of a. N.
aud p. m. mine hoursl This would ne
cessitate one wire for every six persons
using the telephone per hour during that
| time For the. accommodation Of the Gin
cinnau CUSTOMERS alone there W uld have
| to be no less than ten direct wires, and
| then the anxious customers would have to
| almost constantly face the usual cry Of
Wire in use; call again.
Now, taking into consideration oil the
cities west and south of this place which
would look t6 CINCINNATI foy their eastern
communications. the number of wires
| WYNN AGdSA WLIA AAeO bI16
| At Pittsburg lover the middle route, at
| Cleveland (ovef the northern route), the
number would be more than doubled; and
this. to for wires actually needed to sup.
plythe western demand for connection
with New York city; not taking into con-
sideratiop the great. demand that would
arise for wires to all the other-important
| eastern cities, such, for instance, as Bos.
ton, Philadelphia, Washington. Balti-
more. etc, II would require The duplica-
tion Of tie present number Of telegraph
wires throughout the United States and
| Canada ten times Over
No sir. the telephone will never become
a competitor of the telegraphfor the trans.
mission of the telegraph is 0licker, more
reliable, less troublesome to the customer.
and, besides. it Is, or should be, RESPONSE
BILE for all rrorg
The coming long distance telephone will
be a sp,3ythins. nothing more. Put q
| mark on the assertion