The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-05-26
Evening Herald.
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1894.
TELnPHoNR PRoaRRss.

Rains may come and floods may rise
but they will cease, and from out the
clouds behind which the sun is ever shin
ng, will his brilliant majesty again
appear in refulgent splendor, and smile
on refreshed and beautified nature. But
wonders never cease. As mans intellect
ripens and expands so new wonders are
given to the world, and its occupants
marvel at the greatness OF each succeed.
ing achievement Of the master mind. So
when the telegraph was invented and
same into use all the world wondered. II
it wondered then what were its emotions
when the electric telephone. electric light,
phonograph and electric railway system
became fixed and useful inventionsi Now
It is recorded in the Railroad Gazette that
Sin France the management Of some
OF the railroad companies think OF
replacing the telegraph by the tele
phone, even for the transmission OF inn
portant orders" There are some rail
Dads with light traffic, says the authority,
where the telephone Is already thus used,
Outhe Vincennes Railroad in the stations
l,etweeu Paris Bastile and La Varenne,
which are at distances OF about one mile,
10 a signal by telegraph the telegraph
wires are connected with the telephone in
struments and are thus made available
Tor an extended telephone intercourse
Recent information has also reached the
quoted authority that 1.-The Northern
Railroad Of France has established on
tEial telephone stations on the open road
along some Of it's main lines, through
which assistance can be summoned from
ihs stations in case Of accident The sta
tIons are equipped with telephone re-
EAissB Portable telephone instru,
casnts are in use on small French
roads. Tho large Austrian railroads
Hss fNld telephone instruments OF
abs GattenRer system, which in
y Few minutes can be connected with the
telegraph wires at any point, their use
noe interrupting the telegraphio com
UlunieAtion." We are also reliably in'
formed that "in England telephone con
ns ction between block signal stations il
common" and that "on the seven large
French railroads there were In use in
January, 1893, about 1910 telephones
against $500 telegraph stations, In this
country the same uses are being made o
these indispensable instruments, The
West Virginia Central Railroad has tele
phones successfully operating on l3S mile
OK its road.
Thus it ", there seems TO be no end q
abe possibilities Of the telephone and it
uses. Long ago it was established tha
abe telephone is the greatest convenlenc,
the world has ever known, and now W,
have evidence of its adaptAbllity TO con
gsnience and safety on railroads. II 1t 1
successfuiIy operated on railroads In othe
Bountries as means OF perfect trans
mission and reception OF messages IL will
surely not be long before the railroads Il
America will be equipped with these use
gul instruments. Especially on the road
run by the trolley electric system. W
should think telephones could be made @
tncalculRble benefit and use. There woul
be fewer accidents, possibly none at al
and the operation Of the roads would b
reduced TO science based on safety an
lhe assurance of quick and uninterrupte
transportation.