The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-08
A LONG TALK.
1t Reaches From Topeka to
Kansas City.
Rev. C. M. Sheldon Speaks Over
Long Distance Phone.
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT.
Stands in Central Office and
Talks Thirty Minutes.
His Auditors Comfortably Seat
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT.
His Auditors Comfortably Seat
ed in Kansas City.

Rev. C. NJ. Sheldon is the first man in
the west and possible in the entire coun-
try to deliver an address over a long
distance telephone
He stood for three-quarters of an hour
at the long distance phone in the cen
trail Office and talked into the transmit
ter while rs men in Kansas City listen
ed to him.
When he first began his address ne
held the receiver to his ear as one does
in carrying on a conversation over the
wire, but his arm soon became tired
and when he was reminded that it was
unnecessary, but his hand in his pocket
and talked away. It was more tiresome
than delivering a sermon from the pull
pit as little freedom Of action could be
allowed, but Mr.. Sheldon seemed to get
through it without much trouble.
There was not a break in the address
after he had started to deliver it
The Kansas City Journal said:
TT is not understood that Rev. Chas-
NJ. Sheldon, OF In His steps 1aTne, mas
the vocal equipment of an auctioneer,
nor does he bear the reputation of being
a magician who can remain in one place
while he sends his voice to do mission
ary work in another. Nevertheless Rev.
Mr. Sheldon stood in Topeka last nisft
and addressed an audience of men in
Kansas City, making every word he Ut
tered distinctly understood his audi
ence was composed of the men OF the
New Prospect Avenue Congregational
church, who gathered in a building near
the corner of Twenty-sixth and Prospect
last Night to have their second meeting
and dinner and the instrument he used
to convey his speech to them was, OF
course. the long distance telephone His
subject was Some Ways Of Making
Better World and his talk was similar
in spirit and matter to those Of the book
that made him famous and to the num-
erous other public addresses that he de-
livers-
Thursday a special long distance tel
ephone was placed in the building. To
it were attached IS receivers, 50 arraEg-
ed that each man would have one where
it could be conveniently placed at his
left ear when he sat down at the table.
The intervals between the courses of the
dinner were filed in with music, which
was given off by graphophone in the
Office Of the Topeka central and as
Mr.. Sheldon did not commence speaking
until $50 o. m. more music was heard
after the dinner had been disposed of.
Mr.. Sheldon's address was. i'll part, as
follows:
My friends. I am sorry am not able
to see you face to face but as I am not
it gives me pleasure to address you in
the way for which you have planned. L
intend to talk 10 you about Some Ways
of Making a Better World And the
first thought I shall suggest is that you
try to put something into the world in
stead of trying to get everything out of
it. A story have heard about an aged
clergyman may serve to illustrate my
point. He discovered that his gardener,
who had been in his employ many years,
was stealing from him. and decided that
he would be obliged to dismiss him.
When he called him in the man had the
inpudence 10 ask for a recommendation
The minister was tender hearted and
could not refuse him, and he wrote the
following: / can honestly say that my
gardener, Mr.. B. has been q very in