The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-01-28

ZION NlLn II. lHefe must De great gem
erals for armies that win such victories
For many years this line from ocean to
ocean has been the dream OF Theodore y.
Vail, president of the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company, the goal
toward which he has pushed and toward
which he has steadily led his associates
and the army of his employees. Not the
dream of dreamer, but the prophetic
vision Of practical, forceful capable
man, man OF unlimited 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 energy
and enthusiasm, his dauntless optimism
and ambition in everything relating to its
perfection and promotion, and his idea Of
! universal service" have dominated the
| company and made enthusiasts of every
! one connected with it in great things or
in little
At his side through most of these years
has been slightly built. 1.-THE. keen-eyed
man. who never has to be told but once
when great thing is to be done. nod,
and a line goes to Denver; a word, and
it stretches to the Pacific coast. That
is John J. Carly, CHIEF Engineer OF the
| American Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. A leader among the scientific men
of all nations and honored by their rulers
! for his distinguished services in engineer
| ing accomplishment, his wide knowledge,
his keen Judgment and his indomitable
! energy have combined to make him one
of the great factors in telephone achieve
mert and advancement. He is a wizard
Of the wires Long ago he said this
| great thing could and should be done,
| and through the great banks of silence
that separated the East from the West,
this Goethals of electricity has been cut
! ting his way, year by year, until the
! great canal Of hnman speech is done.
Others have played big parts in this
| drama OF human endcayor and achieve
ment. aud thousands have given their
share Of thought and labor, but. whoever
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.
There has been no greater achieve
ment in the history of the Bell Company.
none in the history OF telephony, few in
| the history of the world The gain to
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