Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1925-08-14
Trees From IS Original States
Planted In California 10 Years Ago,
NoU 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
TELEPHoTooRAPHs ARE
RECENT USES

In the life of a tree ten years is
only brief period of time. A cone
dropping to the ground is blown about
until 1t finds fertile spot, where 1t
Uncovered by rain beaten earth.
Lying In this earthly bed. dampened
BY rains and warmed by the hot sun.
1t terminates into living thing that
pushes its way through the earth's
crust and becomes a tender twig. Soon
the twig grows into sapling that in
time becomes 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 we're
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 s.4oO 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 9. 1916, this line, tiedin
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 IL, 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 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 $4,000 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 10,
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
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, a 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
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 used
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 1.-The course Of
construction. One of these will be a
southern route which will extend from
New Orleans through El Paso to the
coast. A northern route will also be
built from Minneapolis via Fargo and
Billings to Seattle.