Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-27
TALKED BY TELEPHONE
 ACROSS CONTINENT.
Connecticut Men Who Were on the
 Wire to San Francisco.

It was announced Tuesday by the local exchange manager of the South ern New England Telephone company that the hrst five Connecticut men to talk over the transcontinentaI circuit extending from New York 10 san Francisco, officially opened in New York city yesterday afternoon. were ]. W. AIling, president: J. T. Moran vice president and general manager; F. F. Everit, chief engineer; !. W. Ladd, superintendent of plant and l. G. Os- born, advertising agent, all of the Southern New England Telephone company. MT. Ailing and Nr. Moran were special guests at the celebration.
 Another Connecticut man specially honoTed on this occa sion was Thomas E. DooEttIe, whose residence at pres ent is at Pine Orchard. MT DoOIittle is recognized as the inventor of hard made long distance talking a poSsibii- ity. MT. DOoiittle 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 aud months of work and wears of intending study showed in the celebration of the com pletlOn of the long distance line be- tween New York and San Francisco at lle -NeN lDIk neluQ QuaFG6fS or the American Telephone and Telegraph company. On the occasion Alexander Ora ham Bell, who invented the tele- phone 40 years ago, talked from New York to Thomas A. Watson, who con Structed the first telephone instrument in San Francisco. It is intensely in teresting that the two men who were the first in the world to speak and listen over a telephone line should be the first to talk at the official opening of the longest telephone line in the world.
 John J. Carty. chief engineer of the X. T. and T. Co, and the scores of telephone engineers who have spent years of labor and millions of dollars are responsible for this line which runs 3,400 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. It typifies the kuhdreds and thousands of Improvements that have been made by Bell engineers and associated engineers in all kinds of telephone apparatus i9 the last 4o years.
 The time required for the actual Construction Of the transcontinental
 line has been two years. The line is 3 3,400 miles in length and runs from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, ITO miles; from Salt Lake City to Denver, 5Sc miles; from Denver to Omaha, 0S0 miles; from Omaha 10 Chicago 300 miles. At Chicago the line branches, one branch going to Pittsburgh, 545 miles, and then to New York, S9o miles from Pittsburgh. The other branch goes from Chicago to Buffalo, 603 miles, and then down to New York, 350 miles There Is a continuation of the line from BucaIo to Boston. 455 miles long. From Pittsburgh there is continuation extending to Baltimore, 250 miles. away on to Washington, 265 miles. Philadelphia. is reached by a branch from the line extending from the line extending from Pittsburgh to New York, connecting at Newtown square.
 The 61ameter of the hard-drawn copper wire of No. B. ". G. gauge used in she line is .165 inch. The total weight of one circuit, consisting of two such wires, is 1,4S0 tons. There ] are 190.0oo poles in the line.
 In addition to Messrs. Bell and Wat son, the mayors of New York and San Francisco greeted one another over the wire Tn addition to this, President Wilson spoke into his telephone in the White House, sending his voice out to the coast, and President Theodore N. Vail of the A T. and T. Co. spoke l, ,o00 miles up the Atlantic coast from Jelzyl Island Co New York and thence to San FranciSco.. 2. total mileage Of 4,400 ] miles.