Connecticut western news., 1915-02-11
ACROSS U. s. BY TELEPHONE
We Have More Telephones than Rest
 of the World.

of the World.
 Only the other day MT. Thomas B. Doolittle in San Francisco called up his family ill Pine Orchard. It took but sixteen minutes from the time the call was placed until Dr. Doolittle and his family were talking ng-talking just as if he had run down town and He'd up to say he wouldn't be home for an hour or SO.
 Think what that means! It took him the best part of a week to get out there by train but, when he wanted to get in touch with his family and wanted to do the job at once, he turned to the marvellous highway of speech by means of which the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company has linked the Atlantic and Pacific sea- boards! Sixteen minutes to put up the connection and he sent his voice over 3, 400 miles instantly!
 That is the wonderful scientific achievement that has made history ill the telephone progress of America. Not only has this country more tele- phones than there are in all the rest of the world; not alone is the telephone service of the United States recognized the world over as the best; not only these things but, in addition, the in- itiative, energy and resourcefulness of the Bell Company has now given the longest telephone line in the world What is vastly more important, tho line talks up as clearly as if you were send ing your voice a mile instead of thous- ands of miles.
 In 1882 forty-five miles of telephone wire had been strung between Boston and Providence. Two years later a line following the shore line of this state linked Boston and NewYork, a distance of 235 miles. In 1895 New York and Chicago talked, a distance of 900 miles, and by 1911 the circuit had been stretched to Denver, dis tance of 3, 100 miles. Two years later Salt Lake City, 520 miles further West, was added. Then came San Francisco.
 In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell sent his voice over a few feet of wire to Thomas A. Watson. At thu Philadel- phia Centennial Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, heard a voice form the other side of the room by telephone and cried My Godi It Talksr' And now, within four decades MT. Bell and MT. Watson have greeted one another over 3,400 miles. One can not help but ask-What more can be done John J. Carty,, Chief Engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company replies with cryptic smile, ''We have just begun. ''
 This wonderful trans continental line represents the results of long con- tinued scientific investigation and ex- peFiment in all kinds of telephone equipment. For instance, Boston, with the largest telephone office in the world, at one time had but 2,400 wires coming into the entire building Now nearly that number of wires can be placed in a single cable less than two and five eights inches in diameter.
 On June 3, 1875 one of the reeds on machine on which Bell and Watson were working stuck. Less than year later Watson heard Bells voice, the first human voice ever sent over a wire. Today there are 5000, ,000 telephones connected by 21, 1,000, 900 miles of wire and the East and the West have been linked by telephone.
 That all of this should have been accomplished within forty years is wonderful tribute to the men who have made our telephone service what it is. That these wonderful strides forward should have been made in the lifetime of the inventor and constructor of the first telephone is little short of marvel ous
 What next step will we be able to Made in America ?''