Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-08

was talking from New York to San
Francisco. Mr.. Watson in San Fran
cisco and I in New York, and 1 was
asked to repeat the same question
which was the first to be transmitted
over and through this instrument it
self, and I put my mouth to this old
telephone in New York and called out
to Watson in San Francisco, Mr.. Wat
son, come here; I want you He re-
piled: 1T would take me week to get
there now.
Now l cannot claim very much credit
for all this wonderful development; I
can see this whole telephone away in
the distance and extending from 1T an
army of workers laying wires and ex-
tending the influence of the telephone.
headed at first by the first president of
the National Geographic Society. Mr..
Gardner Greene Hubbard. Then as this
army of workers extended to this great
general, Mr.. Vail, who has brought the
telephone system in America to COM
pletiOn.
Dreams of Countrywide System.
away back in the old days dreamed
of wires extending all over the coun-
try and of people in one part of Amer
lea talking to people in another part
of America. 1t was the dream Of
dreamer, but Mr. Vail has made it come
true and today we have been witnesses
of the fact that there is no part Of this
continent that is inaccessible to the
human voice Mr.. Vail has brought
this instrument into every home.
What would business be without it?
1t has even gone into warfare and into
the trenches in Europe in fact, Mr.. Vail
is evidently trying to make the telephone,
First in war. first in peace and first in
the hearts of his countrymen.' He has
covered this continent with network
of wires, millions of miles in extent; he
has accomplished the dream Of my youth
Wonderful Development.
But our good guest of the evening,
Mr.. Carly, is going further than this and
he Is getting out all the wires. 1t was
only a few weeks ago that Mr.. Carly
and his associates demonstrated the pos
sbility of wireless telephony by talking
from Arlington here to the Eiffel tower
in France, and man in Honolulu over
heard the conversation.
Where are wonders going to cease?
Why, that is distance equal to one
third of the circumference of the globe.
Is there any part of the globe that Mr..
Carly may not reach by telephone and
without wires at all?
Il am struck to the heart to meet my
old friend, Mr.. Vail. for we have not
met since We were young men, and we
are not so very old now. Yet, we look
brilliant associates of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company will bring
forth in the future"
Secretary Lanes Address.
sSecretary Lane said in part:
I'VE live in a city that is studded about
with statues of men who have made
large sacrifices and done great service for
our country; statues of our generals,
crowned by that wonderful monument
that pierces the sky in tribute to the
man that led us in our fight for inde-
pendence, and soon we will add to, that
the great Greek temple that is to be for
ever a monument to the man who kept
this Union for us.
But where are the statues to the men
who have made America? Where are
ventors and the engineers and the dis
coverers of this continent? Out of my
office every day go $50 patents. Our peo-
pie have the greatest resources of any
people in the world not in their soil
although that is without equal: not in
their minerals. though other nations can
rival US as to minerals. but in the in
ventive genius of the Americans whom
we honor tonight
"Other countries do honor to men
of this class. They may command a
knight or baron. We cannot indulge
in such luxury. but the National Geo
graphic Society can hold a banquet in
honor of such men and crown them
with the laurel of our affection and adj
miration."
Speaks for the Navy.
Secretary Daniels said, in part:
1T has been the good fortune of the