Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-01
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w yfAsHlNGTON, ID. CIT was 10
wv stu small voice that reached
w my ear the other night when
1 called uo IT. Alexander
Graham Bel and asked hlm fur cha.
sbout some of his recent scientific exc
perIments. The voice Nas thet OF DR.
Bell himself As 10 came over ,de uIrr
II was not pulor lum % whisper. mf
IS every syllable Has arueumte and
distinct and ! could bear II as plainly
as though / stood before ,he famous
Inventor face to face AS g.
listened my mind went back tl thr
lime when th2s same voice made lts
first successful communication ot ibis
kind. and my heart thliiod at lhe
thought OF Wha iis owner has given Jh8
lnman race.
u Is scarcely % generation since Dr
Bel invented the means 0f sending az.
1lculate sounds over wine aud today
fy hat Invention the voices of all The
world pass 10 and fro without regard
10 distance Last year ol Doe zen
Telephone lir.a alone there were moro
ahan i.i00000,00l conversations or
enough t0 give three talks 100 every
unan, woman and child upon earth ana
1eave some 10 spare Those convcfsf-
mons took place u the United States
and n is fair to presume that M equal
plumber were uttered boz Europe Asia.
South America and Australia.
ORR Rig TELEPHONE BUSINESS.
have before me the last report of
abe American Telephone aud telegraph
saIHI a.H. H.H.f
side IT'S own business, and 90 praou-
eaily Includes only the progress 1f 'he
Bell lines IN TIM United States The fr-
ures are astounding and they should
he multiplied by Two or more 10 give an
adequate idea az the toiephoning OF
The world. The total mileage ~ the
I3ell lines Is nov more than 10000 10
has In use enough wire 20 reach $40
times around the earth. more than
fnouTh 10 bind two girdies around the
fun Ind sull leave plenty over ION
aeais bands for Mars and our little SIS
ter continent. the nom. Indeed N wire
could be stretched through space. the
Bel wirless alone are enough 90 make %
private lines 20 The moon and leave "a
million odd miles % spare The wires
which were stretched by THAI company
during last year would go "a times
around the earth ana they usc so much
copper 10 maize them that some of our
greatest mines are kept busy furnish
ing H. II would take a biz forest to 1
supply The 5000 900 poles b. which those |
lines are HUNK. and The underground /
.onduits IN widch they lie are so many /
that n placed end 10 end they would /
girdle the work..
AS to the money invested IN the tele. /
phone business iis amount Is incou- !
ceivable. The Bell companies alone /
have capitalization OF more that $780,
900 600. ard the capitalization Of the i'm 4
Gesendent companies here and ~ The !,
other companies belonging 10 govern
inenis and individuals in Europe and /
The pest Of the world II probably much
greater
These figures give some IDEA Of what /
that still small voice meant when Il
first sent aftiCulate sounds over the |
wires and thereby began the CONVERSE
tons which have 50 revolutiouizod the
world Of society, business and trade. /
A MIDNIGHT CHAT.
II required but n few words to ar
range the Interview. The time Fixed |
was midnight for the inventor ~ the
telephone Is q night worker lie has
always done the greater part Of his ex-
rcfinentlng and thinking after dark. |
finding that his mind works more clear
~ as the world grows quiet, ana that II
morning During the summer months :