The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04
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It Sometimes Gives More Information
Than is Expected.

Than Is Expected.
Prom the New York Tribune
The metallic circuit used for tcle-
phones go these days. makes 10 dangerous
for people 20 discuss secrets in a room
where tho instrument Is in use The
writer has heard Of some remarkable in
stances OF the conducting power Of the
electric wire and has himself had some
experiences worth noting. One story
was told by a well-lSnown New York law
Yer. He was sitting In his parlor when
the telephone in his library rang. His
wife, who has a better telephone voice.
than he, answered the call for him.
After giving the usual hello, YES, ~ etc. A.,
she turned and called TO her husband: 1t
is Mr.. Y and he"
He wants 10 know" said her husband,
lnterrupting her, 'when can go on with
the Brown case"
why, yes, - she answered.
"And he says" continued her husband,
''that he viii be ready on Wednesday,"
Why yes she said again, "but--"
And he wants TO know if that will
"Graciousw said his wife, how did you
know that?"
lean hearhim talking to you, +" he an
swered.
His wife could hardly believe this, but
when her husband went to the telephone
TO speak with his other lawyer she left
the room and found that she could hear
every word of that conversation.
The writer was telephoning to the
Tribune office one evening from long
distance. Some one in the same room
with the Tribune instrument, but across
the long floor and busy writing at his
desk, with his back turned to the instru-
ment recognized the writer's voice and
said to the man at the receiver; THAT is
W, isn't it,"
Eyes, - was the answer
We'll, tell him, said the other, with
laugh, not to yell so loudly, that he can
be heard all over Manhattan Island"
This was a case of a dweller in a glass
house throwing stones, for miles away at
the other end of the wire W had heard
every word said in the room downtown.
In building on Long Island with which
the Tribune frequently communicates by
telephone there's an industrious musician.
When he is playing and the Tribune
telephone is in connection with that house
there isn't the slightest difficulty for one
in the Tribune telephone room to follow
the tune and catch every note.
But more interesting example of the
successful transmission of sound came to
the writer's attention the other evening.
He called up the signal service bureau to
ask for some data about the weather
records there. The signal service official
went to examine his records, and while
the writer was waiting at the Tribune
end of the wire he noticed that the sound
of a ticking telegrapher's instrument
somewhere in the rooms of the weather
bureau was coming over the wire with
remarkable distinctness He called to
one of the Tribune telegraph operators
and asked the telegrapher if he could re
I. III.
the weather bureau. The operator placed
the telephone receiver to his ear and held
it there moment. Then he translated
the message.
1T is, =" he said "the Washington fore
cast For tomorrow, fair and warm,
preceded before daylight by light local
showers -
A moment later the weather bureau
official returned to the telephone and
gave the desired information Then the
writer asked:
What is the Washington forecast"
"Wait a minute was the answer. Il
think it has just come in. I'll go and
| see"
| He returned and said:
Eyes, ii has just come"
Wait said the writer to him. ''Isn't
| it for tomorrow, fairs and warm, preceded
before daylight by light Showers
| y
! prise. "How did you know that} 1t has
! just this minute come and couldn't have
| been given out to any one"
The writer explained that a telegraph
| operator in the Tribune rooms had heard
over the telephone wire the message
! licked out in the weather bureau rooms.
Then the signal service man said that
! often when boy called him up from the
| Tribune office ne could frequently hear
II, fbn fnu he h,,r
TO what he was to say, so that the answer
| to the question to be asked was given by
| him to the boy before the information was
asked over the telephone
This case of the sound of the telegraph
er's instrument being so distinctly trans
mitted by telephone as to permit its trans
lation in another building is remarkable,
for the clicking is extremely delicate in
its variations, and the slightest defect in
the transmission, so to speak, would
blur the sound to an indistinguishable de-
gree.