The Republican., 1925-08-13
In This Short Time Transcon-
tinental Telephone Line
Started the Same Year
Develops Into a Ma
tlonal Service.
RADIO HooK-uPs, AIR MAIL. AND
TELEPHOTCGRAPHs AZ
RECENT USES

NAOPp4iiS " us uAlU 10 DAON uDOht
uatil it finds a fertile spot, where il
is coyered by rain beaten earth.
Lying in this earony bed, Ct. aned
by rains and warmed by the hoe sun.
It germinaLes into d Twins shin tha,
pushes it's way through the c-rtn
crust and becomes tender twig. Soon
the twig grows into sayling t.at in
time becomes 3 Tree, and rises and
spreads itself in the forest grove, ana
in the years in which the tree reaches
It's growth, many things happen.
Ten years ago, during the Panama
Pacific Exposition, trees from the roll
ing hillsides on the AtlaIJ.c were
transpianued in fertile soil on The slop-
ing hills of the Pacific coast, common
Grating the friendship of the last Tor
the West. Today these trees form
grove which is one of the SHOW places
OF Golden Gate Park at San Francisco.
An immense granite boulder n the
park bears a 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
transContinentai telephone line was
placed in service between the East anu
the West, marking an epoch in lhe
art OF communication. This line, more
than 3,i00 miles in length, extends
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
enables the human voice to carry
across the continent with a speed as
fast as light.
On May 6, 1916, 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
transcontinental line and its branches
were utilized very generally by the
various departments of the United
States Government in its activities.
On September u, 1924 and again
on July i Of this year, when the people
OF the country modified for national
defense, the transcontinental tele
phone line was utilized for connectins
radio stations tha5 brought into plsy
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
crnment officials and officers of the
Army and Navy.
TWenGy-aiaht powerful radio sta
tons were connected by telephone
lines for this service, the Iaree5,
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
a pathway to the eye. On May 19,
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 inaugura-
tion appeared in New York, Chicago,
and San Francisco papers the same
day that they were made in Washing.
ton.
On April of this year, commercial
telephotograph service was establishe,
over the transcOntinental telephone
line between New York, Chicago anC
San Francisco. During the recen;
earthquake at Santa Barbara, Calf.
pictures showing the damage were
carried to San Francisco by mai
New York by telephotograph, where
in few hours they were given wide
distribution by the press and news
services of the country.
The transcontinental mail route fol
lows closely the transcontinental tele
phone, and telephone service is useG
extensively by the Post Office Depart
ment in dispatching the flyers from
station to station, furnishing weather
reports, storm conditions and other
useful information necessary to the
mail service.
Transcontinental telephone service
has become so necessary to the public
that additional lines have been built
and others are now in the course of
construction. One Of these will be a
southern route which will extend from
New Orleans through 81 Paso to the
coast A northern route will also bc
built from Minneapolis via Fargo and
Billings to Seattle.