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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
VAIL BUILDS UP
VAST SYSTEM WITH
BELLS |NVEN TON
STORY OF TELEPHONE HEAD AN
INTERESTING ROMANCE OF
MODERN BUSINESS,
OCEAN TO OCEAN LINE
RESULT OF HIS EFFORTS
Crowns Achievements With Record
Long Distance Talk Cover
ing 400 Miles.

President Theodore N. Vail of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Company enjoys the distinction of hav-
ing sent the sound of his voice over
greater distance than any man who
ever lived.
On January 25th, when long-distance
telephone records were being smashed
right and left at the celebration of the
completion Of the transcontinental line,
1t was the talk between San Francisco
and Jekyn Island that had the honor
OF breaking every worlds record for
long-distance transmission President
vail is spending the winter on JekyH
Island, and when he spoke to San
Francisco, his voice had to travel 1000
miles up the Atlantic seaboard to New
York before it started on it's transcon-
tinental Journey. When it sounded in
the receiver at San Francisco it had
gone 4,4O0 miles in all
Mr.. Wallis Statement.
After he had finished speaking with
San Francisco, Mr.. Vail made the fol-
lowing statement concerning the new
line:
AT the centennial exhibition at
Philadelphia, the exhibit of the Bell
System consisted of two telephones
capable Of talking from one part Of
the room to another. Faint as the
transmitted speech was, it became at
once the marvel of all the world, caus-
ing scientists as we'll as laymen to ex-
claim with wonder Starting with
these feeble instruments only, the Bell
Company, by persistent study and in
cessant expenditures of immense sums
Of money, created an entire new art,
inventing, developing and perfecting,
making improvements, great and
small, in telephone transmitter, line,
cable, switchboard and every other
piece of apparatus and plant required
for the transmission of speech. AS
the latest product of this unceasing
organized effort, there has been dedi-
Gated to the service of the public to-day
a transcontinental line 3,400 miles
long, joining the Atlantic and the Pa
cific and carrying the human voice in
stantly and distinctly between San
Francisco and New York and Boston
and Washington. This telephone line
Is part of the Bell System of 100000
miles of wire connecting 100000 tele-
phone stations located everywhere
throughout the United States and Civ
ing to the American people telephone
service unparalleled among the ma
tions of the earth"
A Prominent Figure.
Theodore n Vail is one of the most
prominent figures in American bust
ness life In 1878 he took hold of
Bells invention. when few others saw
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

more than local possibilities for it, and
built up the greatest telephone system
in the world
In 1887 Mr. Vail retired from the
presidency of the American Telephone
& Telegraph Company. In 1890 he
resigned from the presidency of the
Metropolitan Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. of New York, and, laying
aside business cares for time, pur-
chased a large farm in Vermont, which
he devoted to the raising of fine live
stock.
In 1893 Mr. Vail made trip to
South America where he became much
interested in the Argentine Republic.
and, obtaining a government conces-
sion near Cordoba, he built an electric
power station. He also bought a
horse-car line in Buenos Ayres, con-
a company and equipped it with the
best cars from the United States,
bought out all competing lines, and
gave the city a complete service. A
company was organized, composed of
British capitalists, who operated the
road, and for some time Mr.. Vail had
his headquarters in London; but final
ly, believing that the undertaking no
longer needed his personal attention,
he retired from the company activities
in 1904 and returned to his farm at
Lyndon, Vermont.
Returns to Bell System.
In 1907, urged by prominent officials
of the Bell Telephone Company, he re-
entered the telephone field and again
took the presidency of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company.
Besides being president of the Amer
Mr.. Vail is director In many of it's sub
salaries and also of the Bell Tele-
phone Company Of Canada.
He is a director of the Aston Trust
Company of New York, trustee of
the American Surety Company of New
York; president and director of the
New England Casualty Company;
president and director of the Lyn-
donville National Bank and of the
Lyndonville Creamery Association,
and many other corporations.
Besides his business activities, Mr..
Vail has founded the Lyndon Agricul
tural School at Lyndon, Vt, in which
he takes a keen interest. He is also
a trustee of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts and director of the Boston
Opera House.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Don't Be a Cutter In
Your Business Methods.

Advertise and KEEP ON ADVER-
Using if You Desire Permanently
to Increase Your Volume of Trade.
You Cannot Make a Noise by Keep
ing Quiet.
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CARLY, WIZARD OF
WIRES, SPANS i. S.
At 7. n. VA|L'S NOD
FAMOUS ENGINEER, WHOM RUL-
ERS HAVE HONoRED, DIRECTS
TITANIC TELEPHONE TASK.
EFFORTS OF THESE MEN
UNITE EAST AND WEST
Commerce and Society Benefited by
New Line That Extends From
Coast to Coast.

The building of the Transcontinen-
tai Telephone Line, which was recent
ly completed, depended on the solution
of no one isolated problem, nor will
the glory of it be given to any one
isolated individual, but there are few
names that will always stand out
above the rest in connection with it.
There must be great generals for
armies that win such victories.
For many years this line from ocean
to ocean has been the dream of Theo-
dore N. Vail, president of the Ameri-
can Telephone & Telegraph Company,
the goal toward which he has pushed
and toward which he has steadily led
his associates and the army of his en-
ployees. Not the dream of a dreamer,
but the prophetic vision of a practical,
forceful, capable man, man of unlim-
tied business energy and knowledge,
who could see anything in telephony
except impossibilities, He not only
cannot see them, but will not admit
that they exist; he does not find the
word impossible" in his dictionary
OF engineering terms. Almost from
the beginning of the telephone, his en-
ergy and enthusiasm, his dauntless op-
timism and ambition in everything re-
lating to its perfection and promotion,
and his idea of universal service"
have dominated the company and
made enthusiasts Of every one con-
nected with it in great things or in
little.
Rulers Honor Carly.
At his side through most of these
years has been a slightly built, 1.-THE,
keen-eyed man, who never has to be
told but once when a great thing is to
be done. A nod, and line goes to
Denver; word, and it stretches to
the Pacific coast. That is John ].
Carly, Chief Engineer Of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company a
leader among the scientific men of all
nations and honored by their rulers
for his distinguished services in en-
cheering accomplishment, his wide
knowledge, his keen judgment and his
indomitable energy have combined to
make him one Of the great factors in
telephone achievement and advance
ment He is wizard OF the wires
Long ago he said this great thing
could and should be done, and through
the great banks Of silence that sepa-
rated the East from the West, this
Goethals of electricity has been cut
ting his way, year by year, until the
great canal of human speech is done
Others have played big parts In this
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
FIRST TELEPHONE BOYS-CORT
LANDT EXCHANGE, NEW

President Wilson talked first to
President Moore Of the Panama-Pa-
cific Exposition. He said:
at appeals to the Imagination to
speak across the continent 1t is a
fine omen for the exposition that the
first thing it has done is to send it's
voice from sea to sea. / congratulate
you on the fine prospects for sue
cessful exposition. l am confidently
hoping to take part in it, after the ad-
journment of congress. May l not
send my greetings to the management
and to all whose work has made it
possible and has made it the great
event it promises to be, and to convey
my personal congratulations to your"
Clear as bell came back President
Moore's reply:
'We are looking forward to your
coming here. / think you will be
pleased with what we have done.
assure you, MIR. President, that you
will never receive a welcome that will
be more cordial and more enthusiasts
TIC"
Talks to Watson.
President Wilson then talked to Mr.
Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco.
with DR.. Alexander Graham Bell list
ening in on the line at New York.
President Wilson said:
81 consider 1t an honor to be able
to express my admiration for the in
ventive genius and scientific knowl-
edge that has made this possible and
my pride that this vital cord should
have been stretched across America as
new symbol of our unity and our
enterprise. Will you not convey my
cordial congratulations to Mr. Bell?
And l want to convey to you my per-
sonal congratulations, sir"
The President then said to the in
ventor of the telephone, Doctor Bell,
at New York:
May / not congratulate you very
warmly on this notable contamination
of your long labors and remarkable
achievement? You are justified in
feeling great pride in what has been
done This is a memorable day, and
tons, sir"
Congratuiates Vail.
Mr. Vail was then announced, and
the President Immediately placed the
receiver to his ear, asking: us this
Mr. Vail?" Mr. Wallis voice came over
the wire so plainly that the President
held his receiver lightly away from
his ear, and then said:
"Mr. Vail, it is a great pleasure to
hear your voice. l want to send you
my congratulations on the consum-
nation of this remarkable work.
am very sorry, also, to know that you
are unwell" A pause ensued, the
President listening to Mr.. Wallis re-
ply. The President then said: well,
l envy your ability to get off. Good
by, Mr.. Vail"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
OF
T

drama of human endeavOr and achieve
ment, and thousands have given their
share of thought and labor, but who
ever is forgotten or remembered, the
names of Vail and Carly will be linked
with this new triumph of science as
long as man talks to man.
Tremendous Figures.
No one can run his finger over -.
route of the new line on the mGp L.
out being impressed with the InGgai-
tude Of the undertaking. The data az
figures are tremendous. Tho | :
crosses thirteen states, it is carried {
10000 poles. Four hard-drGwa &C
per wires, 1865 inch in diameter, II
side by side over the entire dis arc
esta blishing two physical and r.
phantom circuit. One mile of a singll
wire weighs 435 pounds, the we ght of
the wires in the entire line being
100000 pounds, or $3.50 tons. This,
of course, is the transmission wires
alone. In addition to these, each phys
ical circuit uses some 1860 miles of
fine hair-like insulated wire, Al 900
of an inch in diameter, for it's loading
coils.
Simply to string this immense
amount Of wire across the continent,
to set the poles and insure insulation,
to conquer the innumerable difficulties
offered by land and water, forests,
mountains, deserts, rivers and lakes,
was in itself an undertaking of no
mean magnitude. The Panama Canal
is hailed as one of the greatest
achievements of the worlds workers.
as it is, but the almost invisible lines
Of the Bell System, considered simply
as to labor and cost, constitute mon
umental task.
Nation Reaps Benefits.
There has been no greater achieve
ment in the history Of the Bell Com
pany, none in the history of telephony,
few in the history of the world. The
gain to science is great. Immeasura-
bly, more precious, however, is that to
the nation, and intellectually greater
are the benefits to commerce and So
oiety Two persons, one on the At
lartic coast and the other on the Pa
cific coast, can get into voice to voice
communication at will The distance
OF 3,400 miles or more no longer
makes the slightest difference. What
the Transcontinental Line means to
the future of the country, what it will
bring about by drawing the East
and West closer together, how
much of increased prosperity and
happiness these thousands of miles Of
wire will insure, no man can gauge.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
PRESIDENT SENDS
GREETING TO VAIL
Talks to Frisco From White House,
Then Congratulates Tele
phone Head.

President Wilson was one of the
first to send his voice over the new
Transcontinental Telephone Line. He
spoke from the White House to San
Francisco, and later was given con-
nection with Theodore n. Vail, presi-
dent of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, at Jekyll Island,
Georgia, whom he warmly congratu-
lated on the Bell Systems great
achievement.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
Health Promotes Happiness.

Without health, genuine JOY is i'm
possible; without good digestion and
regular bowel movement you cannot
have health. Why neglect keeping
bowels open and risk being sick and all
ing? You don't have to. Take one
small DR.. Kings New Life Pill at night,
in the morning you will have afull, free
bowel movement and feel much better.
Helps your appetite and aids digestion.
Try one tO-night.-AdV.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

Are You RheumdtiC?try SlOdn'S.
If you want quick and real relief from
rheumatism, do what so many thousand
other people are doing whenever an
attack comes on, battle the sore muscle
or joint with SlOan's Liniment. No
need to rub it in-just apply the Lini-
ment to the surface 1t is wonderfully
penetrating. 1t goes right to the seat
of trouble and draws the pain almost
Immediately. Get a bottle of Sloan's
Liniment for 25c of any druggist and
have it in the house-against Colds,
Sore and Swollen Joints, Lumbag0,
Sciatica and like ailments. Your money
back if not satisfied, but it does give al
most instant relief.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
AT THE CHURCHES

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Services held every Sunday at 1920 a.
m.
Testimonial meeting Wednesday
evening at aclock. All are cordially
invited to these meetings. Sunday
school Immediately following morning
service. Reading room, Cor. Fifth and
Spring streets, open every afternoon
except Sunday from 2:3O until 4:3O
o'clock.
First M. E. Church-Bible School 10 a.
m. Morning worship II a. m. EpwOrth
League 6:45 p. M; Devotional service
at 1870 p. m. Services at Pipersville at
30 p. N. Everybody is cordially in
vited to these services. Strangers very
welcome.
ST, Johns Lutheran church Sunday
school at 9 a. M; services at 10 a. M. !;
English services every second and last
Sunday in the month at 7:3O o. M.
ST. Marks Lutheran church Sunday
school at a. NJ; German services at 10
a. N. English services the first and
third Sunday of the month at 80 p. M.
Moravian church-Sunday. school at
9:l5 a. H.; German preaching service at
1920 a. MY P. S. c. E. at $50 o. N. /;
7:30 p. IN. evening services.
German Baptist church-Sunday school
at 9:15 a. M; preaching services at.1O:3O
a. M; young peoples meeting at $50 p.
M; evening services at 7:30 p. M.
congregational Chnrch-Sunday school
at 10 O'clotk. Sermon at II O'Clock; Rev.
N. Carter Daniel. pastor. Young peoples
meeting at 6:3OP P. M.
Reformed Church-N. Fifth and Cole
streets. +. W. Lemke, pastor. Sunday
school at 9 a. M, Devine service at 10 a.
m. and at 7:30 p. m.
ST. Paul's church-HOly communion
at a, M; Sunday school at $50 a. M;
morning PRAYER at 1920 a. M; evening
prayer at 4:30 p. m.
ST. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran
church Preaching services at 10 a. 10.
and 7:30 p. M; Sunday school at 2 p. M.
ST. Henry's Catholic church Low
mass at 800 a. M; high mass at 10 a. m. !;
Sunday school and vespers at $50 p. m.
st Bernard's Catholic chnrch-LOw
mass s a. M; high mass 1920 a. N.
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Lucky.
''I'll be hanged If that cheeky plum
Der hasn't charged me carfare for hi
men,
We'll, that's cheap enough; the
might have come In taxis. "-Bosto
Transcript.
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o o w.
Telegraph cany G. inventor o. the p E OF
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02

he takes a keen interest He is also
a trustee of the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts and director of the Boston
Opera House.
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Gentle Hint.

He-"Then my welfare is of no In
terest to your" She-"Not so much
as your farewell would be, Mr.. Smith
ers."-Boston Transcript.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-02
A Prominent Figure

Theodore N Vail is one of the most
prominent figures in American bust
ness life. In 1878 he took hold of
Bells invention. when few others saw
Cheyenne record., 1915-01-21
FROM rELEaRAPHlc REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST iMPo RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

A Petrograd report received from
Tiflis indicates that $4,000 men have
been lost by the Turks.
Nine British, French and Belgian
aviators dropped bombs on the rail-
station and barracks at Ostend, caus-
Ing considerable damage.
A message from Constantinople
says the Turkish official statement
announces that the French submarine
Saphir, while trying to enter the OAR
danelles, was sunk by Turkish artil-
lery. Part of the submarines crew
was rescued.
The British losses in France and
Flanders from Jan. 1 to Jan. 13 are
estimated by the Nieuwe Rotter-
damsche Courant to number 100 Off
GERS and 6.2OO men. according to
dispatch from Rotterdam to the Ger
man overseas agency.
While the main Russian army has
been busy repelling what Grand Duke
Nicholas in his official report de-
scribes as a series Of violent attacks
by Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, to
break his way through to Warsaw,
other Russian forces have stormed
and taken Kirlibaba Pass on the bor-
ders of Pennsylvania.
Cheyenne record., 1915-01-21
SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR ~
DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR
Look Years Younger! Try Grandma's
Recipe of Sage and Sulphur and
Nobody Will Know.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray; also ends dandruff, itching
scalp and stops falling hair. Years
ago the only way to get this mixture
was to make it at home, which Is
mussy and troublesome.
Nowadays we simply ask at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Hair Remedy" You will get a
large bottle for about so cents. Every.
body uses this old, famous recipe, be.
cause no one can possibly tell that
you darkened your hair, as it does it
so naturally and evenly. You dampen
a sponge or soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at time; by morn.
ing the gray hair disappears, and
after another application OF two, your
hair becomes beautifully dark, thick
and glossy and you look years younger.
Adv. A
Cheyenne record., 1915-01-21
FIELD GUNS WALLOW IN DEEP
SNOW TO KEEP UP FIERCE
DUEL.
FIND 900 TURKS FROZEN
5LAv FORCES CAPTURE 5000
OTHERS PERlSHING FROM
THE COLD.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Petrograd, Jan. 19.-Nine hun
dred Turks were found frozen to
death with their guns still clutched
in their hands by the pursuing Rus
slams after their recent victory in the
Caucasus. The Slav forces also cap
tured 5000 others who were perishing
from the cold.
London-The omission from the
German official report of any refer
ence to Scissors, the scene Of the re-
cent marked German success, and the
French statement that there has been
no change in that region, leads to the
belief that a renewal of the violent
struggle there is impending, the tenn
porary quiet being due to the fact that
neither side cares to risk an offensive
in the present circumstances.
So fierce has the fighting been
about scissors that the Germans have
been using the family vaults in the
cemeteries as forts.
At widely separated points else
where OF the western front there have
been engagements, but the weather
again is playing an important part.
The storm in Belgium prevents oper-
ations, except artillery duels, and
snow in the Vosges, at the other ex-
tremity of the line, makes attacks eX-
ceedingly difficult.
In the Argonne, however, fighting is
almost continuous, and each side
claims minor successes. For the time
being the Germans seem to be more
on the offensive than the defensive.
The German reports of all the east
ern operations are very brief, but
those of the Russians are more in de-
tail, and it is believed the Russians
are again menacing East Prussia and
Posen.
The Turks, according to reports.
have been dealt another staggering
blow after their determined stand in
the snow at Kara-Urgan, in the eau
sasus. They are fighting rear guard
actions, but are being pressed back to-
ward Erzerum in great disorder.
The Turkish garrison at Adrian
ople, the partial withdrawal of which
was previously reported, has now
been completely withdrawn, according
to an Athens dispatch, which gives no
explanation.
Cheyenne record., 1915-01-21
GEN ERAL.

Mrs. Thomas Middleton stopped in 6
trolley car to pick up her purse. Hel
false teeth slipped back in her throat
and she choked to death.
Gus Williams, known throughout
the country generation ago as ar
actor, shot himself in the head in Z
railroad station at Yonkers, N Y.
Rear Admiral Morris R. s. Macken
zie, retired, died at his home at Nor
ristown, N. J. His health has beer
failing for year. He was &C years
old and had been in active service un
til five years ago.
The flagship Virginia, flying the
pennant of Rear Admiral Dewitt
Coffman, commander of the Third
division of the Atlantic fleet, and the
battleships New Jersey and Nebraska
sailed for Guantanamo, Cuba.
Preparation for the defense of the
United States in event Of war was ad
vocated by Secretary of War Lindley
w. Garrison. Henry l.. Stimson, for
mer secretary, and William G. Sanger
former assistant secretary, who were
speakers at discussion on the mill
tary requirements of the country, al
the Republican Club in New York.
Cheyenne record., 1915-01-21
WASHINGTON.

President Wilson has selected J. A.
Smizer for United States attorney for
the division of Alaska.
Secretary Bryan entertained at
lunch Ignacio Calderon, Bolivian min
lister, and Manuel v. Ballivan, who has
just arrived to represent Bolivia at
the Panama Pacific Exposition.
Commander John M. Poyer, U. S. NJ.
commissioned by President Wilson as
governor of Samoa, is bearing to the
people of the islands the personal
thanks of the President for their Of
fer of aid to the United States in the
event of war with Mexico.
Secretary McAdoo sent to Congress
an estimate for an appropriation of
$4,000 to defray the expenses Of a
Pan-American financial conference in
Washington. Virtually all the govern
ments of Central and South America
already have accepted the invitation.
President Wilson was asked by
Brig. Gen. Geo. w. Davis, chairman
of the central committee of the
American National Red Cross, to issue
a proclamation calling on the Ameri-
can people to come to the relief of
the Italian earthquake sufferers, and
it was believed the President favored
the proposal. =.