The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-24

81 tex branches OF business have en-
Hired the development that has mark
~ the activities OF voice transmits
On Telephones have multiplied
&SlN@r and over again until there are
nav more than six million in use In
1na United States. Talk over wires
- increased TO such an extent that
the companies which keep account OF
z1hAir messages show a total of about
\. Ten billion conversations q year. and
4 tnuse constitute only about half OF
4 the total number OF messages
Is Is said that the Bell Telephone
company added 2.oe0 Instruments a
day 70 its service during 1909. and
4 that the Independent companies did
I eunasly well, IL not better. New York
hiss zsa.60e telephones and Chicago
s180.08o. The exchanges of the latter
4 ctty are the busiest in the world. They
average twenty-five conversations
4 On each line q day. or about 100000
4 messages each twenty-four hours.
The average conversation Is said TO be
& 100 words long. so that the total num-
Der OF words spoken over Chicago
teiephones in a day would fill 1900
crdinary sized books,
The wireless telephone Is being per-
fected gradually, and inventors con-
Ndently predict that the next ten years
vii see remarkable progress In voice
Transmission. AS the telegraph was
the Torerunner OF the telephone. and
the wireless telegraph the harbinrer
II 81 the wireless Telephone. so n IL DO.
Asysd that Picture transmission by
Il Wire and wireless viii be followed by
r actual seeing by wire. IT Is predicted
Tut people or This generation may
u ~ behold the person nj tha other
4 ana az me line when they Use N teIe-
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II sASsa Y aiasi'ilssaoh l.ne' ties were mu'e
&c k0 perform passapie service. Inc
b alasne was true on the DefaWhre oiNis-
& a1h Of the fehhssisahta Railroao'
"A Wniie the telephone wires We're cross
Il "a ana broken, the operators stiii
4 we're able to talk the entire length
I'M the division The railroad officials
4 utated afterwards that but for the
fAlHTApHE Hot-a wheel c0nid have been
& ansed until the telegraph wires We're
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PRESIDENT Taft has one of the
= -l2{<44St- t. phone booths ever made
a Not only in Ii roorny enough for him
& l,ut his stenographer can enter II with
SS Elm. 1t liz finished In a way that
snakes III a notable pieces of cabinet
y rs1nkirg. Fire White House has one
III the best branch telephone systems
ever installed. In addition to the
\ public system there IL a private sys-
y tam. which leads TO the capitol and
tsse various executive departments
over which the confidential business
NJ the government II transacted
Il Uncle Sam Is the worlds creates,
S1aer ef the SelArshssqe 49, Iss4 ti,ss-s M, a
.fa,xr government was given a f,at ratt
far its business. to-day ii In charged
- much per message. and the gov
ernansnt clerk cannot usa the feIe-
\ nhone for his own private business,
~4x.er,f ny rasortins To nay stations.
Evsn when a subscriber calls up a
ssserk Ma rrnst leave hrs number and
4 have fha clerk GO ia the nav station
n ..s.d gal, hin, IN this xyax tha Wash
- q tsr,,r,t,auv gets
s9ssssl,Ie nav FOR many az liz messages
sI.,fs- a,,trrrra4tr -tfteut1oY. -pycf.a nge
d IA. shesn on trial for snyna time. and
hme nrnvAd such 81 success that say-
ersal concerns in America are now
] e,.,riyg such euuipment on
TAI. EXCHANGE each s,,hscriber IL able
nj r,aka hia avn Connection and there
& II no chance for hack talk On the
& - .,.crsherss apparatus there is 4