The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-10-07

New York Telephone service
from the United States, Canada, Cuba
and Mexico to the S. s. "Nieuw
Amsterdam" new flagship of the Hol-
land-American line, was inaugurated
recently. The rate for three-minute
call between the ship and points in
northeastern United States is $500
while she is in the western half of the
Atlantic and $500 in the eastern
half. For calls involving points be-
yond this area there are additional
charges depending upon the distance.
This installation aboard the "Nieuw
Amsterdam" now makes it possible for
people in the United States to hold
telephone conversations with twenty
three transocean liners.
Rome, Italy :. The work of laying
the telephone cable between Sicily and
Tripoli, which will be the longest sub
marine telephone cable in the world,
has begun. This cable will be 1856
nautical miles in length. The longest
submarine telephone cable now in use
is that between Australia and Tas-
mania.
New York :. The highest telephone
above the surface of the earth is in
stalled in the Empire State Building
in New York City. The instrument
is a public telephone, and is located
in the lower observatory on the eighty
sixth floor, at the 1000 foot level, $50
feet below the top of the building. The
height of this telephone is approx
mately the same as that on the top of
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which for
more than forty years held the record
for being the worlds highest struc-
ture.
Dublin, Ireland The extension
of telephone service in Ireland con-
tinued at an accelerated rate during
1887. The number Of telephones in
the Free State area at the end of 1887
was estimated at $4,000, an increase
of $500 for the year. The largest in
crease in the number of subscribers
lines was in the Dublin area, but there
was also steady increase throughout
the country. Local calls increased by
about 100000 and long distance calls
by about 100000.
San Francisco i. In the latest edi-
ton of the San Francisco, Calf, tele-
phone directory of the Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company is a
new prefix, "Fair Ground" commence
rating the Golden Gate exposition to
be opened in that city next year.
Capetown, South Africa The
demand for telephones in Capetown
has been increasing steadily since the
introduction of the automatic system
in 1884. In the past twelve months
1000 lines have been added to the ex-
change, and there are now more than
10000 telephones in the peninsula.
Williamsburg Historic James
town Island, Va, seat of the first per-
manent English settlement in Amer
lea is soon to have telephone service.
A line will be laid underground from
Williamsburg to the shrine for use Of
the National Park Service and the AS
ISOLATION for the Preservation Of
Antiquities.
Boston ;. Before there was tele-
phone there was telephone labora-
tory. In corner Of Boston work.
shop Alexander Graham Bell carried
on his researches. Today the Bell
Telephone Laboratories, the outgrowth
Of the early workshop, is great in
stitution, employing 1920 persons,
about 1000 of whom are men highly
trained and experienced in science and
engineering. The activities of the
laboratories include all the engineer
ing arts which pertain to electrical
communication or to the composition
and construction of communication
equipment, as well as all the sciences
basic to those arts. The organization
is also responsible for techniques of
test and inspection which follow its
designs through manufacture AMI
installation.