The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-29

to New York from Washington for the purpose of speaking from New York to Chicago over the recently completed long distance telephone It was dramatic mo- ment when Professor Bell took the re- ceiver and placed 1t at his ear and then put his lips to the transmitter with as little formality as though he were about to speak through the apparatus to a friend across the street That demonstration was admirable, for it showed that New York and Chicago exchanged perfectly in- telligible telephonic communications. At that time the question was asked of Pro lessor Bell it 1t would be possible to es- tabish satisfactory long-distance com munication with San Francisco. His only reply was, Why inot?"
 The demonstration in this city early in the present week was of itself d justifiea- tion of Professor Bells laconic answer to the question which was put to him Id years ago. Perhaps more dramatic than was the actual communication from the Atlantic to the Pacific was the presence of many of those who have made the modern telephone possible. Nearly 40 years have passed since Professor Bell made public demonstration of his apparatus al the Philadelphia centennial exposition oi 1876 Soon there Is to be a final demon. stration, at least so far as overland tele- phoning is concerned. at the San Fran. cisco exposition of 1915.
 Two of the men whose names will b, listed among the American immortals Professor Bell and Edison. shared in thi. demonstration. At the Philadelphia ex position Professor Bell was alone, but i was not long after that Philadelphia dem 1, onstration that Edison perfected the mi crophone transmitter and this apparatus with the one invented by Berlinger, to gether with Professor Bells original ap paratus, being brought into full cooper ation, at last gave us the perfected tele phone. It is very rare that two mer who shared in a great invention should 40 years after that invention was success fully demonstrated, have participated il another demonstration which revealed t, the utmost the capacity of the overlan, | telephone.
 l With these two were ]. ]. Carty nov
 the chief engineer of the American Tele phone and Telegraph company. To MT Carty belongs 8 good share of the trib ! utes paid to those who have made thi achievement possible. He was a boy O | F or 14 years of age when by his owl choice he began service with the origina
 Fell Telephone company of Boston Hi
 natural aptitude for this science and
 certain fascination which the study of i
 always gave him led him to make exper | iments of various kinds. Every time tn | telephone bell is heard ringing it seem
 to those who know it's history to soun Carty's name, for he invented it. His in ventions have been many, all of ther 1 tending more and more to perfect tn | telephone His latest invention is tha mystic and weird apparatus which | called, for want of a better name "th 1 phantom circuit and 1t Is this appara | tus which has made it possible to conve the human voice through 5000 miles c wire so that it is inteligibly delivered | the one who holds the telephone receive so many miles away. Bell, Edison. BeI liner. Carty, Pickernell and many other constitute & great cooperative combins tion representing almost all fields science and much of physics, and it
 this cooperation which made it possibl
 for New York and San Francisco {
 talk to each other.
 President Vairs Service
 The consummation of the ocean-tc
 ocean telephone is from one point