New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-31
TELEPHONE USES.
Some Odd Ones That VIII Soon Be
Commonplace.

In ashore and at sea- in commerce by ran
and water. in growing crops. reporting them ana
specializing in them. from spreading news 10 'ei-
ing the time Of day. the telegraph IS an integral
Part Of the daily life OF the world and particularly
OF America.
Yet the telephone in"ented nearly fifty years
later than the telegraph. carries at least seventy
FIVE times as many messages Last year was the
thirtie,h anniversary OF Or. Bells discovery. ana
IN every thirty-three people IN the United
States a subscriber the Bell telephone com
panies. There is now. in either The Bell company
or TIE independent companies probably one teIe-
phone subscriber 10 every eighteen people IN the
United States In 1902 there were 5o'0Si50S teie
phone messages sert in this country 2sSSiSlSt
than seEt b. mail and telegraph com
bined and since that time telephone has grown
Tiore rapidly than either OF the other nethods o.
communication. II is peculiarly American In
stitution. New York City has more telephones than
London Glasgow. Liverpool Manchester. BirminG-
ham, Leeds Sheffield Bristol and Belfast combined;
more than France. Belgium. Holland and Switze:-
LARD. The recent yearly increase IN the number OF
telephones in New York City is equal TO the totel
number IN Russia Yet there ara many towns ana
cities IN this country win greater MUNGER OF
telephones in proportion 10 their population shan
New YORK. Before The earthquake there weS
telerhonc for every eish; people IN San Francisco
which more ;han twice the ratio Ia Ne" foiA
And Seattle ana Portland. Ore, had even more IN
proportion 20 their population than san FTancisco
There are. besides ;he regular commercial le!e-
kcaa coInparisx -ylth their town ard city service
ana long distance connections. soThe SIX thouseIA
or seven Thousand rural telephone lines In THIS
country. and these are put 10 eli kinds OF uses
a man accused Of shooting deer out OF season
in California pleaded guilty the long DIS
taace wire. Ire judge accepted the plea ana hhed
A!aa Slo A viii made rs ,eleDhnne was admitted 10
probate in Missouri. IAe Sioux on the fosebuo
and Cheyenne Indian reservations nave 80 4hs'4"
Electx There Is enc a. ESQ feet above the sea, en-
Pixies Peak, and another 300 feet underground IN
in
20 streets we're blocked by great sEowslpTTn IN
me ;cWn os solomon Kan. the day OF The
run into ire church ana ;IEegaphoas vas attached
Inc funeral sermon MSS hsard along all the farm
ers' lines IN ire vicinity, as well as IN the over
in Maine the telephone y used protect valuable
noaEtan obseTvatories and as soon the wateh
ers ocate hre with their glasses the hte %rIu en
Souav- Mountain discovered thirty fires in time to
prevent any considerable Joss of timber; the on
Twelve res and THAI on Mount BlseIow or eIevsh
Il timber IN sections where log drives are hoate1
%ifes are strung along the banks OF the stream.
when Jam occurs the drivers up ute -. 20
notified the drives held up until the Jam Is
The telephone Is as much OF = business asset to
the farmer Il is 10 city Offices over II ne gels
tho yyeather reports and market prices calls the
doctor The fire brigade or help in case Of burglars:
az the case may be 1t saves the farmer many
.ime3 w5a5 II eosis nm IN some certain hour
every day to members all go 70 their telephones
a
Francisco disaster. the American Telephone ana
Telegraph Company, through IT'S local coIh ~ ~,
offered to distribute Governor Guild appeai 10 tns
state Of Massachusetts. The work was beSun AT
$50 in the afternoon and before u the prope au-
thorities in 353 cities and towns had receiver me
message. The Illinois Central Railroad IS usins
the telephone instead Of the telegraph TOT IRAN
dspa cning and Il is used between the various ne
saving stations along coast A packing mouse
in Boston leases a wire 10 Omaha for 4 certain
time every morning This IT, perhaps, the longest
thousand miles the mechanical difficulties increase
very rapidly. In Motel in New York there are
twenty-five hundred instruments, and IN Philadel-
phia thousand.
The results already achieved by the telephone are
among the other wonders which By their very UNI
versatility have become commonplace. the future
sim wider possibilities Professor Puplh or
Columbia University. than i've years ago u.s.
covered what is known as the Pupin coil
which preserves the vibrations over the wire ana
makes longer transmission possible. The Boil COM
parts Of its system The telautograph. n more re-
cent invention. VIII reproduce a written message IN
the handwriting Of tho writer. There ls alsO
telephone Of such constituencies that 4 VIII reces
the voice Of person some feet away from u,
transmit the message. and the instrument az me
other end OF the wire reproduces the nleSsase ~, "a
the speakers tone OF voice a young lnNetl,oI, ~
Newark announces tire discovery OF 2 wireless
telephone. Whether all Of these Inventions come
gest sdci possibilities talking AROUND the WoIld
Yourself without even touching an ins,rnhe.it-
Such thing this would not be so SURPRISING Us
day tho talking tow which DR.. Eeli exnlDtSd
AZ tho Philadelphia Centennial In leIs'-WoF'as
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