The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-26
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JOIN IN cOagra'glai;2g the officials
, and engineers Of tie telephone COM
3zHy whose genius and gorE hare
made possible this new ;.ans-coa-
tnen,al means Of communication
Vice President Berne. READ let
ter 20 The &e9 York gathering from
Pres.den, Vail. in which he praised
Chic! Engineer J. ] Car;y, say.ns
ina, ne world owed NJ Ca.ty a
deb, for this triumph % science. Mr..
Carty delivered an Informal address,
say ug ,ha, there il no section o. N
line that canno, be reached by tele-
phone men within Two hours, since
500 men are nov guarding i He
gave great credit 10 the wOrk Of o:
the men in the organization.
After President Wilson, Vice Pres
ident iKnggbury Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
spoke from Wasbingt d. e. 20
President Charles s Moore of t..%
Panama Pacific IMPOSITION.
Mr.. J. J. Carty. chief engineer -
the American Telephone and Teie-
graph company, made the following
statements:
The greatest Of te.cDbcne lines,
which today has been dediated to
the voice Of the public, inue, always
be distinguished because through ITS
copper wires the voice Of The chic:
magistrate OF this nation has fr-
the first time in our history been
transmitted from the sea- Ot GOV
, eminent Al Washing on wcstw ard
| thirty-siX hundred mics 10 IN"
shores Of the Pacific over tt!s Inc
the voice 70 President V vl:DG was
carried with magic speed across riE-
ers and plains and mountains, In
/ stantiy reaching san Francisco,
where in clear ;,aas I spoke MS
/ message of cong-aWlalion, - men
/ of achievement"
Unable 10 be pta3elt with Us in
/ person. Mr.. Theodore y. Vail has
! nevertheless taken part in these
ceremonies in manner that Nils
/ the mind with amaZement by using
the wonderful Bell system OF organ
/ izea men and organized wires he has
| talked TO us here in New York from
an island eleven hundred miles south
near the coast of Florida. From
there he has spoken through the
length and breadth OF our land to
the state OF California forty four
hundred miles away, thus attaining
the longest distance ever achieved
| by the voice OF men.
We are filled with grateful feelings
that Alexander Graham Bell and
|. Thomas \ Watson have today talked
I with each other over this now his
toric line Mr. Bell was the first
to conceive Of the true method and
/ apparatus for transmitting speech
/ electrically and Mr.. Watson, follow
INK exactly directions given to him
! by Dr Bell, constructed with his own
hands the first telephone Bell was
/ the first among men to talk by the
electric telephone, and Watson was
the first 10 hear.
/ 1T was not q concrete problem
--F.fH n
Manager W. II Berry of the Pioneer
! Telephone 4 Telegraph company, dis
cussing today the completion of the
/ long distance telephone line between
New York and San Francisco, which
has Just been opened
1T was not problem for an
inventor working in an attic. II was
literally a problem 10 be attacked alt
along the line. Without the eNpend-
iture Of millions Of dollars and con
ccntration of effort the telephone as
/ il exists could not have been de
veloped. We, operating here in the
southwest, enjoy the benefits that
| come from this vast expenditure of
money. this large study by so many
experts a, minimum cost No one
telephone company in the country
could have stood the expense OF car
| rying on this work. It was task
that required the Bell system
The papartus, the methods, the
system entire new art had to be
created" as Mr.. Vail has said re-
Gently. when the telephone was
born nothing analogous to telephone
service as we know It existed. There
was no tradition to guide, no ex-
perience to follow. The art of cleo
trical engineering did not exist
The Bell engineers, recognizing
that success depended upon the high
est engineering and technical skill.
at once organized an experimental
and research department which is.
now directed by staff of over five