The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05
THE TELEPHONE USED
 IN MANY NOVEL WAYS

in telephone system. The reason for
 putting the telephones in first is that | they will aid in making the work go smother and faster.
 1 Next door to the lumber camps, in many places. are preserves for fishing and hunting. and the sportsmen use I the telephone as messenger. IL beats the Id-time guide by hours.
 l The same invention that serves the
 miner mile below ground also serves
 the mountaineer climbing through the clouds. A telephone line has been con- structed from one of the outlying Bell
 exchanges in Colorado Springs to the government forest reserve on Pike's
 Peak. the purpose being to secure quick action in case of ire.
 The day is coming when even people living north of the Arctic Circle will be able to converse with others in the States, for already lines are stretch ing from the Alaska gold mines to the , budding cities of the frigid gone; and. on the other hand, the Bell company l on the Pacific slope Is gradually ex- tending its service north through British Columbia.
 The telephone serves the humblest
 missionary as well as the Pope Of
 Rome. Plus x is the first of Roman 1 pontiffs since the Italians took Rome who has had any dfrect personal re- 1 lations with people outside the papal | domain, and these relations he has | maintained through the telephone. The l telephone in American churches has l long since passed the point of bringing | the preacheris word to the deaf and of being the means of disseminating gen. | eral information. Nowadays it has
 it's part in the philanthropic work done | by church guilds. Besides, several
 preachers make a speciality of having their sermons transmitted by long distance wires to distant cities, serv- | ing two or more congregations at the same time.
 From church to churchyard is only | a step, and the same ubiquitous in-
 strument that plays its part in calling the minister to bless the marriage VOWS | also calls him to the nearby chapel to pray over the dead Nearly alH the large cemeteries in metropolitan districts have telephones.
 A Philadelphia doctor, who evident | Iy leads the strenuous life, has a tele- phone not only by his chair when he | is eating and by his bed when he Is sleeping. but by his bath tub when he is refreshing himself in the morning. His explanation of this curious piece of enterprise is that he used tO be
 bothered so often by calls while he was engaged in allowing his fancy to
 transform the enameled tub into a pebblebeach, and he found if so trouble some to dash out and put on his bath
 robe and answer the telephone and plunge back again, that he decided to
 have his telephone always with him
 when he was in the house.
 The man who orders lamb chops and a telephone as as he seats him self at the restaurant table and calls LID his friend as soon as the connection is made with a line in the wall near by, is likely to be the same man who calls his barber and his bootblack by telephone. In these up-to-date days the bootblack stands and barber shops
 conducted by progressive managers
 are equipped with telephones. The tele-
 phone has even entered that off-shoot of far-off land famillarly known as
 Chinatown Tn San Francisco, previous to the disaster, there was flourish ing Chinese exchange, and In New
 York, which has the biggest Chinatown
 in the East practically all the large
 oriental merchant houses are SUD- scribers to the Bell service.
 In some modern buildings the tele- phone goes up to dizzy heights in the elevator. thus furnishing ready
 means of connection. in case of ac- cident, with the engineers working three
 or four stories belw the surface of the | street. and the telephone and the builders nag go up III company "ltp
 the steel skeleton of a skyscraper. As
 fast as the framework ascends the
 telephone line is heightened in order
 to maintain communication between
 the workingmen and the superinten-
 dent in his office below
 A telephone in a stand-pipe was
 novelty that attracted considerable
 attention in a Southern city not long ago. It was necessary to paint the
 inside of the stand-pipe. which was
 about 200 feet high. and the work
 men decided to use a raft, which as the
 water was let in or out was lowered
 or lifted, The question arose as to
 how the engineers in the power house
 were to know when to admit or with
 draw the water. and finally 1t was
 decided to install a special telephone
 service which would enable the paint
 CTS to signal for more water or less.
 The scheme worked capitally
 Putting a telephone into a wireless | telegraph station is something like
 carrying coal to Pennsylvania, but that
 Is what the government has done in
 some cases for the purpose of keep ing the wireless experts in sure touch | with the various army posts and navy