The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-02
HUMAN VOICES ARE
HEARD 3,4OO MILES
CITY OF GOTHAM HAS SPEECH
WITH HER NEIGHBOR ACROSS
THE UNITED STATES.
LONG DISTANCE TALK SUCCESS
Wires Bring Washington and San
Francisco in Telephone Touch. On
Down the Coast to Georgia Carry
Golden Gates Greetings.

Francisco in Telephone Touch. On
Down the Coast to Georgia Carry
Golden Gates Greetings.
NEW YORK.-The completion of
the long distance telephone line be-
tween New York and San Francisco
was celebrated today First, this
city had speech with her neighbor
3,400 miles away. Then the wires
that swing southwark from New
York brought Washington and San
Francisco into telephone touch On
down the coast to little Jekyl Island,
opposite Georgia, they carried the
Golden Gates greetings. To the north
Boston, the birthplace of the tele-
phone, talked across the continent.
At the white house President Wilson
spoke into the mouth piece of his
telephone and his voice was whirled
across thirteen states to the shores of
the Pacific.
President Wilson Phones.
The president entered the room at
$40 and Immediately thereafter
communication was established be-
tween Washington and San Fran
cisco President Moore, of the San
Francisco exposition, was at the tel
ephone at that end The wire was
working splendidly and the converse
ton was as distinct as between Bal
timore and Washington.
Boston to San Francisco.
In Boston Mayor Curley had a
word to say to Mayor Rolph of San
Francisco
Thomas D. Lockwood in Boston
talked to Thomas A. Watson in San
Francisco recounting their early ex-
periences with the telephone and ex-
pressing wonder at the latest achieve
ment. Mayor Higginson Of Boston
extended greetings to San Francisco
and Elmer j. Bliss, president of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce, talked
to w. NJ. Moore, president of the
San Francisco Chamber Of Com
merce. Fred J. Mcleod, chairman of
the Massachusetts public service
commission, talked to a representa-
tive of the California public service
commission, following which tele-
phone officials exchanged greetings
JeIyI Island TO Frisco.
But on day when long distance
telephone records were smashing up
the country over it was the talk be-
tween San Francisco and Jekyl Is
land that had the honor of breaking
every worlds record for a long dis
lance transmission. President Theo-
dcre n. Vail, Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, is
spending the winter on Jekyl Island,
in Georgia, and when he spoke to
San Francisco his voice had to travel
1000 miles up the Atlantic coast to
New York before it started on its
transcontinental journey. When it
sounded in the receiver at San Fran
cisco it had gone 4 1000 miles in all.
At the center of these telephone
doings, where the wires of the North
and South met those of the distant
West, in President Wallis office at IS
Dey street, was Alexander Graham
Bell, who invented the telephone 40
years ago.
Figures ON the System.
Here are some figures in connec-
ton with the New York-San Fran
cisco line for the lovers of statistics:
Length of line, 3,4O0 miles; route,
from San Francisco to Salt Lake City
to Denver, $50 miles; from Denver
to Omaha, 500 miles; from Omaha to
Chicago, 500 miles. At Chicago the
line branches, one branch going to
Pittsburg, $40 miles, and then to
New York, $50 miles from Pitts
burg The other branch goes from
Chicago to Buffalo, 6O3 miles, and
then down to New York, $50 miles.
There is a continuation of the line
from Buffalo to Boston, 465 miles
long. From Pittsburg there is a con-
tinuation extending to Baltimore,
$50 miles away, on to Washington,
265 miles. Philadelphia is reached
by branch from the line extending
from Pittsburg to New York, con
Meeting at Newtown square.
The diameter of the hard-drawn
copper wire of number 8, B. w. G.
gauge, used in the line is 165 inch.
There are 1905 poles in the
line.
In the two physical circuits of the
line each circuit having two wires,
there are 1860 miles of copper
wire.