The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-29
rEHEPHoNE MEN BANQUET.
At New Haven House Last Night-Fromi-
 nent Officials Present.

nenG OmGials Present,
 The banquet held at the New Haven house last night in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the first telephone exchange in the world
 was in every way great success and a pleasant affair. The guests number ed thirty-six, among them being many of the men who have been identified with telephone work since 1t began and have assisted in making it of practical value to the public at large. The pri- vate dining room was used for the oc-
 cation and presented an unusually pret- ty appearance The tables were per-
 fectly appointed and decorated with smirax, roses and carnations.
 President Tyler called upon the fol-
 lowing gentlemen to speak: Joel Clarke
 of the New York and New Jersey Tele- of the American Bell Telephone coni- pany, General E. P. Meany of the Amer | ican Long Distance Telephone compa- ny, A. Heaton Robertson and several | others
 1 President Tyler said that he did not l intend to repeat the history of the twenty years work, but would give, a few statistics. He said: Twenty years ago there was one telephone exchange | in the world and less than fifty ex-
 change stations. The total cost was l 4t. +1lI 1;y1o
 There are now 1881 exchanges and | branches in the country, which supply l 3S0, 300 stations, and nearly half of them
 are metallic circuits. There are ITO | grounded circuits in Connecticut. There
 are 66,000 miles of toll lines, which car- 1 ry 30S748 miles of wire enough to make | six complete circuits around the earth I and almost enough more to reach from 1 pole to pole. There are 30S2,00 connec-
 tions per day and 1000, GOO, 900 per year. l Of the toll line connections there are l 23,500000 per day.
 | The lines now run from the Atlantic l to the Pacific, from the lakes to the.
 gulf, and never in the past twenty years has ever a cent been lost by | telephone company. Every single dol | | counted for. Among those present were:
 MT. Charles F. Cutler, president of New | York Telephone company; MT. William l D. Sargent, vice president of the New York and New Jersey Telephone com pany; MT. D. l.. Carson, who since 1879 has been engaged in the development of | the Southern Atlantic states with the I Southern Bell Telephone company; MT.
 Samuel Ivers of New Bedford, Mass, treasurer of the Southern Massachu-
 sets Telephone company; MT. Thomas | D. Lockwood, one of the oldest electric al experts of the American Bell Tele- phone company; General E. P. Meaney l of New York, and w. J. Denver of Bos- l ton, manager of the New England Tel
 ephone company; A. c. White, general
 manager of Providence Telephone com pany; H. l.. Storke of Albany Tele-
 phone company; General $. E. MerWin, A. Heaton Robertson, James English, John w. filling, w. N. Easterbrook of l New York and Pennsylvania Telephone
 company of Elmira; T. B. Doolittle,
 special agent of American Bell Tele-
 phone company: A. L. Salt assistant
 manager of Western Electrical com
 pany of New York and Chicago; Treas
 urer Major Embler Assistant Treasurer P. M Clark, Mr. Campbell, counsel | for New York and New Jersey Tele- phone company, and General Superins tendent E. B. Bakerl