The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14
Trees From Is Original States ~
Planted In California 10 Years Ago,
Now Are Groue Near Golden Gate
In This Short Time Transcon-
tinental Telephone Line
Started the Same Year
Develops Into a Ma
tional Service.
RADIO HooK-UPs, AIR MAIL AND
TELEPHoToGRAPHS ARE
RECENT USES

LII Tie llL6 VI d Tree L6u years 40
only brief period Of time. A cone
dropping to the ground is blown about
until it finds fertile spot, where 1t
is covered by rain beaten earth.
Lying in this earthly bed, dampened
by rains and warmed by the hot sun,
it terminates into living thing that
pushes it's way through the earths
crust and becomes tender twig. Soon
the twig grows into a sapling that in
time becomes a tree, and rises and
spreads itself in the forest grove, and
In the years in which the tree reaches
its growth, many things happen.
Ten years ago, during the Panama
Pacific Exposition, trees from the roll
ing hillsides on the Atlantic were
transplanted in. fertile soil on the slop-
ing hills of the Pacific coast, commem-
Grating the friendship Of the East for
the West. Today these trees form a
grove which is one of the show places
of Golden Gate Park at San Francisco.
An immense granite boulder in. the
park bears tablet placed by Sequoia
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, with this inscription,
Trees From Historic Spots In The
Thirteen Original States Of The
Union"
In 1915, the year in which these
trees were set out in California. the
transcontinental telephone line was
placed in service between the East and
the West, marking an epoch in the
art Of communication. This line, more
than 3,400 miles in length, extends
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
enables the human voice to carry
across the continent with speed as
fast as light.
On May 6, 1915, this line. tied in
with other land lines and radio sta
tions, was used for the most COM
prehensive demonstration Of wire
communication that the world had
ever known.
During the World War period the
transcontinenta line and its branches
were utilized very generally by the
various departments of the United
States Government in its activities.
On September IL, 1924, and again
on July of this year, when the people
of the country modified for national
defense, the transcontinental tele.
phone line was utilized for connecting
radio stations that brought into play
the greatest hook-up Of wire and wire
less communication that has ever
existed in any country.
More than $1,000 miles of telephone
and telegraph lines were tied-in with
the Office Of the Secretary of War at
Washington, including the Army Corps
Headquarters throughout the country,
and addresses were made by high gov
eminent officials and officers of the
Army and Navy.
Twenty-eight powerful radio sta
lions were connected by telephone
lines for this service, the largest
number of stations that have ever
been connected together, so that mil
lions of people over the entire North
American continent heard the pro-
gram.
The telephone line, long a highway
over which mans message to man
might reach the ear, has become also
pathway to the eye. On May 49,,
1924, photographs were successfully
transmitted over long distance tele-
phone circuits between New York and
Cleveland.
Special telephotograph apparatus
was set up in Washington on March
at the Inauguration of President
Coolidge. and pictures made at the
National Capital during the Inaugural
ton appeared in New York, Chicago,
and San Francisco papers the same
day that they were made in Washing
ton,
On April 4 Of this year, commercial
telephotograph service was established
over the transcontinental telephone
line between New York. Chicago and
San Francisco, During the recent
earthquake at Santa Barbara. Calf.
pictures showing the damage were
carried to San Francisco by mail
planes and transmitted to Chicago ana
New York by telephotograph, where
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