The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02

completion of the long distance tele-
nhone line between New York and
san Francisco was celebrated Mon
gav. First, this city had speech with
nor California neighbor, 3,4OO miles
awav. Then the wires that swing
southward from New York brought
washington and San Francisco into
t.lephonic touch. On down the coast
~ little Jekyl Island, opposite GeOr-
ola. they carried the Golden Gates
Greeting. To the North, Boston, the
BIRTHPLACE Of the telephone, talked
across the continent.
Washington to Frisco.
At the White House President Will
son spoke into the mouthpiece of his
telephone and his voice was whirled
across thirteen States to the shores of
The Pacific.
The President entered the room at
s:45 and Immediately thereafter COM
nunication was established between
washington and San Francisco.
President Moore, of the San Francisco
exposition. was at the telephone at
hat end, the wire was working
splendidly, the conversation being as
distinct as between Washington and
Baltimore.
President Wilson in his converse
ZION with President Moore of the
Panama Exposition, expressed his
sincere congratulations TO the man
agement Of the exposition, n also to
all who were connected with that
great undertaking. He spoke about
his forthcoming visit to II coast and
said he hoped to give some time to
the exposition proper. Mr.. Moore in
reply TO the Presidents conversation
stated that he was looking forward
enthusiastically to the visit Of the
President and said: Il think o will
ne well pleased with what we a
done"
Boston To Frisco.
Thomas j.. Lockwood in Boston
talked TO Thomas A. Watson in a
francisco, ~recounting the early ex-
periences with the telephone n ex-
pressing wonder at the latest achieve
ment. Major Higgerson, Of Boston,
extended greetings to San Francisco
and Elmer j. Bliss, president of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce, talk
ed TO w NJ. Moore, president of the
San Francisco Chamber Of Commerce.
Fred j. Mcleod, chairman Of the
Massachusetts, Public Service Com
mission, talked to a representative OF
rhe California Public Service Com
mission. Mayor Gurley had a work
10 say to Mayor Ralph, of San Fran,
cisco. following which telephone Of
Iicials exchanged greetings.
Jckyl Island To Frisco.
But on a day when long distance
telephone records were smashing w
the country over, it was the talk be
tween San Francisco and Jekyl Islant
that had the honor Of breaking ever.
worlds record for a long distance
transmission. President Theodore N
Vail. of the American Telephone a n
Telegraph Company is spending tn
winter on Jekyl Island, and when h
TO travel 1000 miles up the Atlanti
seaboard to New York before it start
ed on it's transcontinental journey
When it sounded in the receiver a
San Francisco it had gone 1000 mile
in all.
At The Nerve Center.
At the center Of those telephoni
doings, where h wires Of the Mort
and South met those Of the distar
West, in President Wallis Office at
Dey street, was Alexander Grahal
Bell, who invented the telephor
forty years ago. Mayor Mitchell an
other officials, scientists and eng
neers and telephone pioneers, an
other distinguished men gathers
round DR.. Bell as he strobe into tt
room on the top floor of the telephol
company's building. On a table
one end of the big office was a repli'
of the first telephone transmitter
carry the human voice. 1t looked
be a crude enough affair. Tie dov
a orum-head over a wooden receive
Join the center of the drum-head
the free end of a receiver spring, a
range a mouthpice over the dru1
head-and there you have it. B
forty years g when that crude {
fair was first shown by Bell at t
Philadelphia Centennial, the Elnpe
or of Brazil backed away from it
amaZement, crying: my God,
talks" And today, because Of WI
The engineers nave done, DR.. B
was able to send his voice through
across the continent.
There was further reminder Of
telephones babyhood in a coil Of W
connected with the transmitter. T
was part OF the original wire o.
which DR.. Bell spoke the first wO,
ever uttered by telephone, in
boarding house at S Exeter Pla
Boston. On March 10, 1876, Bell