Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-01-29
PHONE SUCCESS
LATEST WONDER
TALKING ACROSS CONTINENT BY
BELL TELEPHONE FROM NEW
YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO.

NEW YORK. Jan 24-Tal!ling across
the continent, from New York 10 San
Franc.sco. IS the latest achievement
o. the Eel Telephone System
When in 1876 Professor Alexander
Graham Ben first publicly exhibited
his speaking telephone II the Centea-
NAL ~ Fhladeiphla. the scientists and
d-gnitarics gathered there we-e as
-onished taat he could transmit s9ee-h
over few A1ndlt1 fset u viz
l-91a one -1om e the Exposition bult-
ing 70 another
Yesterday aftesnoon q group - pub
lie officials representative OF various
scientific and business associations.
newspaper r.en. telephone officials ard
others gathered az the Office of Pres
idezt Vail of the American Telephone
{. Telegraph company. Is Deg street.
and talked 10 another equally import
ant group in san Francisco. using a
telephone that vas in principle The
same as Bells first telephone which al
the Philadelphia Centenial had called
forth from Dom Pedro. emperor Of
Brazil. the exclamation. Ny Cod. IL
speaks"
With proper appreciation Of the
event. everyone present was allowed
to talk 10 san Francisco. Many ap-
parently trivial questions traversed .
the continent over the new continent /
al line. It seemed the most natural .
thing in the world 10 say. -How's the
weather over there2~ or What time .
is it2~ The difference In time was in .
pressively shown by the answer. ~oh, +.
its one O'Clock here OF ~one-ten.' .
when the man on the New York end .
looked al MS watch and found It vas
four OF fourteen. as the case might be-
As one man expressed it: The Bel .
people have annihilated time
It was four O'CLOCK New York Time .
one o'cloek. san Francisco time. thar
Chief Engineer Carty Of The American ?
Telephone & Telegraph Company. act
,ng as Chairman OF the meeting. seated .
himself at the flat top desk and plae-
ing the receiver 10 his ear, called for
number which would PUT New York
and san Francisco in telephone con-
nection with each other
There was hush Of expectancy.
FOR the moment was critical one.
particularly 10 the telephone engineers
who had labored 50 lons 10 bring this
great achievement To q successful
completion.
Would the line work an righte N
one could tell No one knew 50 well
as they the sensitive nature r the
electric impulse that carries the hu-
man voice in less than one-fifth Of "a .
second across the continent To Dc
sure the line had been tested out anc
worked splendidly. But no one eOuI /
tell but that. away out in -. R0cl.es.
an avalanche might hurtle dnwa the
mountains and bury the pole line oat /
1ut sight. or a cyclone sweeping at-oSs
he desert play havoc with the tiny
strands which guide the electric waves
rom coast 10 coast
But Mr.. Carty's first words are re-
assuring. Everybody smiled and the
telephone men breathed q sigh OF re- ,
ief. Everything was working perfect :
Y. MI Carty was talking 10 san :
Francisco.
put 8Ir. Watson on the line, please D
)r. Bel wishes 10 talk with him."
Thirty-nine years before this same ,
lr. Bell stood in his attic chamber in ,
soston and had uttered the first IN ,
eligible sentence ever spoken by the ,
over sixty feet Of wi-'e. j.,
trung To another room in 1he same d
uilding where the waiting Watson re- d
sired H. Come here AIr. Watson. :
lease. want you~ was the arst seu- u
ance. z
1t was dramatic moment when
0r Bell whose DISTINGUISHED 1earns.
ven i'm that notable c0mpauy made 2
i'm conspicuous. sax down to the tel- Il
phone The athcr the Telephone =
he fstfer ~ the -snhcue was ta's- p
iE q, .ae mar who m rs5 Che eai'5 ID
his hrsln i1- aertc taru. TO
Wals7n over tie oaFss-