The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-11
TALKING TO GREAT BRITAIN
Transatlantic Telephone Service
Carries Voice 5000 Miles

Transatlantic Telephone Service
Carries Voice 5000 Miles
T,a~G tlantic telephone service
from Baltimore and other Maryland
cities and the District of Columbia to
all points in Great Britain was
opened Saturday, February 5, $3.50
A. M, according to an announcement
made by w. H. Warren, division
manager of the Chesapeake anC
Potomac Telephone Company of
Baltimore city Commercial calls
may be pla ed from Baltimore and
other Mary and cities and Washing
ton to England over wire and radio
paths measuring about 5000 miles
This extension of transatlantic
telephone service follows closely
the Inauguration of the service
between Pennsylvania and New
Jersey points which was started
January 10th. The Maryland Wash
ington service will add about 1926,
900 telephones to those already
available for the transatlantic ser
vice. OF these telephones about
$4,000 are located in Maryland.
Trans Atlantic service was open
ed to the public on January Z, wher
New York telephone users were
able to talk to London. By this
time. however, the service will have
been extended to points Throughout
Great Britain Announcement is
made by telephone officials that tn
service to northern Ireland is no
available at this time, but will bt
extended at later date.
The rates from Maryland cities
and Washington to any point ir
Great Britain within reach of this
service will be $500 for three
minutes or less, and $500 for
each additional minute. Conver
sations are limited to twelve min
utes. The service is on person
to person basis. In case 1t Is not
possible for the operator on thu
distant side of the Atlantic to locate
the person wanted report charge
of $1,000 will be made.
To place a call for Great Britain
it will only be necessary for the
subscriber TO ask for long distance
and to give to the long distance
operator, when she answers, the
name of the person wanted il
England, the place where he or she
can most probably be reached ane
the time at which the subscriber
wishes to have the connection made
AS there is only one radio-tele
phone circuit between this country
and England it is necessary for the
long distance office in New YorF
to book the calls in the order they
,re received and to allot the time
of the circuit as equitably as pos
sible. After the subscriber has put
in his call he will be notified wher
the circuit will be available for him
1t should be borne in mind that
this trans Atlantic service is open
only from $3.50 A. M. to l P. M.
Eastern standard time, which is
from 1870 P M. to P. M, Grea'
'ritain time.
The off Gals of the Chesapeake
md Potomac Telephone Company
have announced that all information
regarding calls between this countr!
and England must necessarily be
treated as confidential, and that nc
information will be given out as to
who has used the service, who was
the first to talk from any giver
place, or the time or nature OF any
call.
Calls from Maryland points an6
Washington to England will be
carried !, over the circuits of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company to the nearest office of the
| Long Lines Department of the Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany and thence to the long dis
lance Office of that company in the
Walker Street building, New York
City.
At that point equipment is pro
vided to separate the transmission
toward London from that received
from London. East-bound trans
mission is carried by telephone lines
to the radio transmitting station al
Rocky Point, Long Island, thence by
radio to the receiving station
at Wroughton, England. Fro n
| Wroughton the transmission passes
by wire telephony to the long dis
ince Office of the General Post
Office At this point is located
segregating apparatus similar tc
that in the Walker Street building
From the General Post Office lons
distance building the calls are
handled over the ordinary telephone
plant to the English subscriber.
West bound, the transmission from
the English subscriber whicf
reaches the London long distance
office over the regular wire plant
and is there segregated from tho
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