Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-31

The following statement from President Field of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. The opening of the Trans.coutineut- al Line from New York to san Fran cisco marks the latest development of American scientific and technical skill It is now possible to talk from New York to san Francisco as eas. fly as talk to you This achievement undreamed Of a few years ago is now an established fact lt was not the mere setting of thousands of poet from one end of the continent to the other nor t3s sTeadine of sixty eight hundred mics of wire to make that service possibe because while the construction work has set the standard for he world, a great deal more has been required. The success Of the line has depended upon the exercise of the best engineering and technical skin and the solution was found only in the acCumulative re- suts oi improvement, great and small in the telephone Tho transmitters. tie line cables and switchboards and every other piece Of apparatus re- uuircd the transmission Of speech While this great task is now accom- plished. 1t must not be understood to mean that we of the Bell System feel that we arc through We have made many successes in our busi- ness The business, if you please. of giving universal telephone service To one. hundred million people and the transcoutineutal line is the latest but not the latest success. We have much more before us.
 The retaliation that telephone ser vice from the Atlantic to the Pa ciflc has been accomplished is merely one way in which the Bell System is giving an account Of its stewardship to the American people
 Special Bulletin No. 2.
 The conversation between Dr. Bell and Mir Watson.
 Dr. Bell, New York 'Ahoy Ahoy. Mir Watson, are you there? Dc you hear me?'
 Mir Watson. in San Francisco. "Yes. Dr. Bell, l hear you perfectly. Do you hear me welI2"
 Dr. Bell. "Yes. your voice is per fectly distinct It is as clear as H you were here in New York, instead Of being more than three thousand miles away Do you remember MT Watson. that evenin. t5irty-eigbt years ago when we couyersed through the telephone on a real line tor the first time2'
 Mir Watson: Yes indeed that line was two miles long running from Boston to Cambridge. You were over. joyed at the success of tne eNpeu. ment'
 Dr. Bell: We are talking over thirty-four hundred miles as easily and cearly as we talked over two miles thirty-eight years ago"
 Mir. Watson The telephone then has certainly done wonderful things which your invention since that first outdoor test We must not forget that the station we are talking over is really six thousand eight hundred miles long, as Of course, the earth cannot be used for the return now, as it was used then"
 Dr. Bell: "T want to switch you tc another telephone, and talk to you through that"
 Dr. Bell then switches in the hrs telephone that was made in June 1875 Can you hear me2'
 Mir Watson "I hear perfectly though less distinctly than the other Of course"
 Now switching back to tre stand ard instrument. Dr. Bell says Wha wonderful progress has been made bl the Bell System since then 70 enable our voices to be transmitted over ( circuit of six thousand eight hun dred miles without the least appar ent distortion or weakening
 MT. Watson. Their work ha been superb and superb also is th, disciplininE of the organization ia watches every inch of this long cir cult to safeguard tltese feeble vi bratious from the many things tha might interfere with them All hon ored are the men who have reDdere, this great achievement possible They have brought an the people O the United States within the sound O one great brotherhood
 Bulletin No. B.
 Demonstration room is filled wtl public officials. Representative 0 civic organizations - engineeN scier tsts, leaders in the commercial am financial world, prominent joucna ists aud teephone officials. as Dl Bell and his party, including hi grandson, Melville Bell Grosveno arrived on the scene at four o'cocl
 Mayor Mitchell and his offioia family appeared a few minutes late