Putnam patriot., 1915-01-29
1elephoning 3,40O Miles

It was dnbOuhttu tOuhN D y lfit IOtdl Exchange Manager of the Southern New England Telephone Company that the five first Connecticut men to talk over the TranscontlnenIal Circuit extending from New York to San Francisco, officially opened in New York city yesterday afternoon, were j. w. Alling, president; ]. T. Moran, president and general manager; l.. H. Everit, chief engineer; j. w. Ladd, superintendent of the plant, and l. c. Osborn, advertising agent, all of the Southern New England Telephone Company. Mir. Alling and MT Moran were special guests at the celebration.
 Another Connecticut man specially honored on this occasion was Thomas B. Doolittle, whose residence at pres- ent is at Pine Orchard. MT. Doolittle is recognized as the inventor of hard. drawn copper wire-the wire that made long distance talking possibili. ty. MT. Doolittle was sent to San Francisco to represent the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the Pacific end of the line on occasion of the formal opening.
 The results of months and months Of work and years of intending study showed in the celebration of the com pletion of the long distance line be- tween New York and San Francisco ht the New York Headquarters of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. On the occasion Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the tele- phone forty years ago, talked from New York to Thomas A. Watson, who constructed the first telephone instru- ment, in San Francisco. It is intense. ly interesting that the two men who were the first in the world to speak and listen over d telephone line should be the first to talk at the official open ing of the longest telephone line in the world.
 John J. Carty, chief engineer of the A. T. and T. Company, and the scores of telephone engineers who have spent wears of labors and millions of dollars are responsible for this line which runs 8 ,4o0 miles from the Atlanue to the Pacific coast. It typities The hun. dreds and thousands of Improvements that have been made by Bell engineers and associated engineers in all kinds of telephone apparatus in the last forty years.
 The time required for the actual con struction of the trans continental line has been two years. The line Is 8 foo Francisco to Salt Lake City, TO miles; from Salt Lake City to Denver, 5S0 miles; from Denver to Omaha, 5S5 miles. from Omaha to Chicago, 900 miles. At Chicago the line branches, one branch going to Pittsburgh, 545 miles, and then to New York, 390 miles from Pittsburgh. The other branch goes to Chicago to Buffalo, sos miles, and then down to New York $50 miles. There Is a continuation of the line from Buffalo 10 Boston, 465 miles long. From Pittsburgh there is a continuation extending to Baltimore, 200 miles away on to Washington, 265 miles. Philadelphia Is reached by a branch from the line extending from Pittsburgh to New York, connecting at Newtown Square.'
 Tue diameter of the hard.drawn cop per wire of number s R. W. G. gauge used in the line is .l65 inch. The total weight of one circuit consisting of two such wires is 1 ,4s0 tons.
 There are 1904 ,0ta poles in the line. In addition 10 Messrs. Bell and Vat. son, the mayors of New York and San Francisco greeted one another over the wire, In addition to this Presi. dent Wilson spoke into his telephone in the White House sending his voice out to the Coast and President Theo- doFe \. Vail of the A. T. and T. Co. spoke LOO miles up the Atlantic Coast from Iekyl Island to New York and thence to San Francisco, total mileage of f ,400 miles.
 
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