The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1918, Page 14

—— 8 ee eee ee eee eo : ‘ A ’ ‘at & THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918 U.S. a Nation of Talkers; | New York Leads the Lis Over 700,000 Telephon reat Battie of the West Likely to Parallel Victories of 12,000,000 Telephones in This Country, Four Times as 3 Waterloo, Gettysburg, Lake Erie, Buena Vista, Th e Te lep h one--- 2 as in Rest of World Put Together—-Busiest New Yor Fontenoy, Blenheim and Other | Exchange Handles 266,000 Calls Daily-—Equitable Historic Engagements. |FIRST SWITCHBOARD SERVED EIGHT SUBSCRIBERS—MODERN TYPE HANDLES 10,000 LINES Building Alone Has 4,444 Phones. | FROM 12,000,000 PHONES IN U. By Albert Payson Terhune . LAST YEAR 10,600,000,000 CALLS WERE REGISTERED. , By James C. Young T* first phase of the Great Battle of the West looked to outsiders | Fe Liew : 4 p aprcgesin are a nation of talkers. If you have any doubt like a German victory. The calm confidence of the Allied military | that, just observe that we use every day about three-four all the telephones in the world. For we have 12,000,000 | authorities did not seem justified. Yet these authorities not only \ oa (abn lle be pedis oda ag amalamdaau | inenis, against some 3,000,000 others for the balance of mankind. | The telephone business is one of the half dozen leading ind of innumerable battles In the past was enough to reassure them. . PPD ing pte poke te Leh Soe teas ane tes ean ide \ ie the United States. No less than 11,200 separate companies are en of boxing can fail to recall a re ~ 4 / Re ‘ | in supplying facilities for conversation by wire. Thirty-seven of ai ih eran pole dite pny Doar: fontng a Aaya oes or ; $ jand pido of all, represent the Bell system. Independent gom toht i mee Kaka nee of that fi at f ¥ j™umbering 9,129 are connected with that system. These comy bg a a Fy inietae cits va ys hana ee Wie aida £. | together with those which have no relation {o the Bell system, e eltary history bristles wnat ‘ oe tHe (fhised : } just 25,000,000 miles of wire in order that Mr. Big Business may nas seemed on the ragged edge of utter defeat. Here are just a {4 deal of millions or Mrs. Business can order a pound of sugar fro ‘ew of these: | corner grocer, The first three-quarters of the Battle of Waterloo was a defeat to | To speak of the telephone indusiry in the United States is a the allies. The English were banged and battered and forced back antil : y bog the Duke of Wellington prayed that “night or his reserves” would inter- | reference to the Bell system. All of us know vene to save his hammered army from the assaults of Napoleon’s host. It was only at the end of the day ae Shee Terra f BRi | | how rapidly that h | veloped. But here are some further interesting figures about the that the reccrves camo up and turned|»Y the Britishor’s first broadside. bers Her flag was shot away, her gun the tide of war. Napoleon at noon Fortunes of Great Battles Often Swing to Victory From Apparent Defeat | of its operation. Ninety-four per cent. of its total wire r | wire. Fifty-nine per cent. of the total, or 13,451,121 miles o |runs through underground cables, f tl OARD—RECTOR, NEW decks were @wWash and sho was a ea | doing away with the unsightly poles | UMited Stat t the had deemed his chances of succe#s 88| burning, splintered wreck. Perhap: L FE | of other days, and reducing the ie) ene that » back “afty out of fifty-one.” Before dark/no one except Jones on either ship fc eenen | Canee Amer | bility of damage the allies bad crushed his seem-| would havo bet a penny against a fngly victorious army, and be Was;million dollars on her chances of galloping from the field {n panic| victory against ber larger and unin fight, while his scared staff was try-| jured enemy. [ven the British Cap {ng to keep him from fulfilling bJs/ tain thought the Yankee had surren- [eral who la a Fr tem | with several thousands of t until} hurried to the local a total of 281,016 miles, | chau | During last year the Bell added to its “phantom cirenit e have nd asked for the nuw Phantom circuit 1s just about| Gen, Pershing, in Pari threat to kill himself dered. One of the smashed vessel's what its name implies. Almost every | a wet t e. 1f you please The first two-thirds of the Battle|/ofcers actually begged Jones. to) one understands the theory of tele-| of Gettysburg was an overwhelming | yield. | phone operation—how vibrations of Confederate victory. Everywhere the; An hour later Paul Jones stood on} Union troops were retiring or were) the deck of the Serapis receiving her) on the barely held defensive. For|commander's sword He had won two days Gettysburg looked like the| America’s firat sea fight in foreign greatest Confederate triumph of the| waters—had won it after be seemed «whole Civil War. But by the end of| hopelessly thrashed. tee third day Lee and his Southern-| Bismarck in his memoirs con- ers wore fleeing for their lives to the! fessed that at the Battle of Konigs- safety of Virginia soil. And through-! grats he was certain that his coun-| cout the Union there was a furore of} try's army was on the verge of col- the voice are carried from receiver | to transmitter by means of electrical | current running through connecting | } wires, The phantom circuit consists | four ho Sen in joining two wires together, both} “Cancel the IF OUR 10,600,000,000 PHONE CALLS ‘t carrying their own message, and| eral, and sent LAST YER, averaged at one minute in | (hen sending a third message over ficer, to whom he said str length, were made a continuous conver- the two busy wires, This {s made | four lines wire betwee sation lasting 10,000 years, it would take | possible through a voltage of current Pari a 200 people, talking continuously in 50- different from that which carries d start to work a est peration joy over the success of our army—| lapse, Yet that battle soon afterward a by £0) year relays, to accomplish the call. ither of the other messages. a with a good) man, the army which for two days bad) shifted to an overwhelming victory OUR 12,000,000 TELEPHONES, placed side by side, : ‘ Poesia tiiegs ys P 5 During last year the Bell erstem| built by the American exp: wavered on the brink of defeat! for Bismarck's King—~a victory that) | would make a 1,040 mile circle around New York City. handled, exclusive of connecting The Bell s ha At the Battle of Lake Erle Perry's} put Pruseia's heel on Austria's neck. | ' Te companies, an average of 30,845,000 | uted fourteen battalions of flagsbip was riddled with enemy shot} At Fontenoy the French were at and her decks were strewn with! first badly beaten. The French King ‘American dead. She was ablaze and| was giving the word for a Genera!'s sinking. The other ships of the Yan-| retreat when his army commander, kee fleet were also sore disiressed.| Saxe, persuaded him to throw But before the day's end the foe had) France's “Irish Brigade” into the! qsurrendered every one of their ves-| path of the victors. The Irish hurled! sels that were still afloat, and Perry] back the wave of onrushing English was scribbling on a letter-back bis}and Fontenoy became a famous exchange calls ev day, and | 000 toll line calls. This is at as somethi rate 10,600,000,000 calls a year,/in the arn nat Abo or about 100 each for every 1- | girl telephone operators alread vidual in the United States, Which s conclusive proof that we are in- jeed a nation of talkers—long dis¢ tance talkers New York, of course, uses the tele- telephone wo ers to the servi than 7,00 t to Franc and ¢ d more are in t ny has placed at the of the Government miles of toll lir in this ce t‘mmortal report: French victory. none oftener and more consistently | and 25,000 miles of Morse ci “We have met the enemy and they The Battle of Blenheim—one of the than any other city, ing about; This is on} rt ¢« are ours!” greatest in history—was a series of 700,000 instruments, exceeding the | company's ‘total for London, Paris and Berlin| fallen a by 200,000, The table Building | bility in aiding the rest of us t has the largest t hone equipment | win the war. of any building tn the city, with! Perhaps ther 4,444 stations. The Mexico's biggest veteran army 4nd| costly disasters for the allies under Mexico's best General hemmed {n a| the Duke of Marlborough for the first force of Americans one-fourth their) part of thé engagement. They were number, under Zachary Taylor, at) beaten back, thelr most dashing at- Buena Vista. Caught in a trap, hope-| tacks were repulsed with heavy loss. r is no basier pl tor Exchange | the world than a telephone ex: lessly outnumbered, the Americans} At nearly every part of the line the . x 4 fs the busiest of handling an| during the rush hour. The m refused to surrender. The Mexicans allies were in retreat, yet within a THE 25,000,000 MILES OF TELEPHONE WIRES in average of 266,000 calls every day, that a caller takes down some d then started in to annihilate them.|few hours the primal defeat was the U. S. would coil around the earth 1,004 times. | which is the record for any exchange. | receiver that action causes : ‘At every stage of an all-day battle| changed to a glorious victory—a vlc- rom 1S Beek ot Wannenes by: prams Berea aon ‘it ts equipped with a 10,000 lne| incandescent light to flash the Americans were bested, One tac-| tory that changed the map of Europe - os wo ~ crane oan — ~——-"—" | switchboard, standard for large ex-| the operator's eves. Then f tietan declared the Yankees were de-| and made Marlborough a world hero. hanges throughout the country.|the familiar ereeting of “nt cistvely beaten no less than three! tm our own Revolution a dozen f Words About 150 operators are constantly | please,” which 1s borne to the times in that one day, but that their) times our country seemed beaten be ar 0 on duty. | t jover a charged wire. Wher leader “didn't know It.” hie yond all hope, yet we ended the con It 1s a bit diMcult to compare the | number has been given the op ‘At the close of the second day the/flict In absolute victory and inde : ap A telephone business of the United| makes the desired connectic Mexican army reeled back from 1h” | pendence It Begins to Look as if Our Mayor Was Elected on the Pullman Ticket If States with that of other countries, | hooking up one wire with an Lc aa vce erettbed see git ir Hina iha They'll Only Mint Those 2-Cent Pieces Now, a Man Won't Have to ‘or the plain reason that we have| This is the particular fun decimated, their spirit demoral ni arily a model for the latter ey A pay . 78 i 7 . ar excelled all other nations {n the|the switchboard. It require: py pante fear. The handful of how, ‘The few wiles gained during Break a Nickel Every Time His Wife Asks for Spending Money art of talking across the world—or erable skill and an. unt Sngly doomed Americans had Won! the past week by tho Germans form That Is a Terrible Boil Old Atlas Has on His Back. sur own home town, Also recent | amount of patience to be the greatest victory of all the Mexi-|no proof that the terrib) cost of " aa u < 1 figures are lacking because of the | operator. To-day {t he + can War. |that carly advantage will ever be BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER war, ‘Tho latest are four years old.|endeavor of telephone ¢ « When Paul Jones fought the/ justified, or that the German slaugh Copsright, 1018, by the Press Wublishing Co. (The New York Bening World) cured, He couldn't get in the front row of any chorus with those funny At that time we were far in the lead | everywhere to cultivate this pa mighty Serapis off Flamboro Headjter will end in anything but final MEY must have moved the rain clock up an hour too, f the | looking shinbones of hi ,from every standpoint, with Ger-|on the part of both employe his ship was put out of commission German defeat I first instalment of Apri! showers Juzged into t« esterday sixty” es many second, Great Britain third| public. And it is the best way minutes ahead of its schedule, It w n orthodox April Four-yeur-old child of notorious alien spy fousd a quart of Paba's | and France fourth. How great was all, for there are very few of \ ies’ i in F) sprinklette, Same as they have in large cities, The premiere was very invisible ink and drank it. Which is @ terrible bust on invisible ink this difference may be gathered from|may build a telephone tne . Allies’ Railroads in France : | successful, alt 1 nobody got corns on his voice from squawking for ; ust one {Hustration. Our telephones | own—like the General, And { : | 000 00 zs an encore. All the Wali Street stenographers raised their skirts an sanstiuess, when New Jerse y gety that hour-more H+ | shen numbered 10,180,048, Germany's it could be done we provetir R equire |, K 00 Workers inch or t&vo more und high-hecled it for w dry spot a trif er than angley, the explosions will be resumed on the reg 1,420,100, Britain's 780,612 and those | continue to have troubles The Vushington, D fter lamping a Street s allk stockinging Sela: whoa an ie tee war asta for another tWo| thousand Chines. wer > Weahingtan, Bi O, After lemping) a9 ppv ; neing France doesn't lose time in shooting spies. French motto is | of the French 330,000 Jot this would seem to be th years, 500,000 men will be re ahaa pate mars uso Imported. it for a sheltering spot we began to realize why « ay for rain, quick sales and small profits. European telephone systems are! smiling voice is more effectiy quired to op: American ATMY | ports to the gr un from the And statistics show that @ very small percentage of farmers are near = very diderent from those of thelthe drownlue oye patiroeds in France, while twice that] trom thear te within pews and) sighted. Palm Beach, Brooklyn and Atlantic City, Looks itke our Mayor snhice pumber will be needed to serve the) miles ¢ eon ay Aphi Y A few packages of thunder accompanied the A wer Was elected on the Pullman Ucket ——oe © } roes. To exert their + wit . ey ch may be the reas our new Kasier suit be et od —— - —--——— — —--——— — ® ° ° combined Allied forces. To exer nect with narrow gauge rode vince Which ma 1 why your n ' j itene (te h M | Goll strength, the Allies must, PAYS! to thone used in construction work, | Ad TAN UP your hack to take refuge under your hat, et ‘ S. Raj d en Fomes Carried the Mai transportation facilities ten tes over which donkey engines haut em.) of daylight Is all rixht, but nobody wants a ur of day between First \Up . ailroa Hg dally mail service by al d ten pounds, and the char greater than the largest n iway: aye . ve miles cloner to the fight his trousers and fis coat. Inst ¢ putting all thoxe belts on those plane veon New York,/85 in gold for each quart en tn see nies Diaten: Heelies ~ trick coats they ought to put anchors on ‘em, Sime day last year, fair Hi frst railroad in America Was, Power was the Charleston and Ham and Washington, | ounce 7 this, almost the first American watts) From this point branch out Ha ie commenced ninety-two years| burg, afterward the South Carolina, b, the Fost Office Department] A letter een ae a - pxecu- Deh ow et ooner . n ol ¥ . My “4 be =) fen abroad Inoluded raltroad execu | work of lighter tracks, thirry wae nw aa 4go and was completed in one| which wa menced in 1830 and) dnnounces, will be established within | ounc now oe tives, engineers and builde ye) wide ch win, ? ichea The line extended from Quincy, completed in 1833, extending trom ime, mark rit ad-| cer ed ef M d throug ¢ e uiging in @ slant a our come ta afte ttn » short time, ma 8 a striking ac in t j manufacturers all over the country) /4,), n tren ph h she com Afierine | , nee = _ : . pric , to the Neponset River, a dis- | Charle to Hamburg, opr nce over another mail service, the|nony express, By 4 me pave +a a say nd 4s nes a he Clo rince’s chinlesa photograph, after tossing a opp . fey a f PEP ance 0) L, 100, y 3y the aid of th are now busy on standardized e auip firet trenches as the eneme +, ar the at the Clown Anless i - ie azo |tance of three miles, and it was in-| Augusta, Ga, a distance of y express, put in operation fifty-lcarrjers the distance betw . ment for our lines In France, writes) 4 aie eMy's urtilier at the high oost of chow, you figure out that it a terri oll that | tended to supply Quincy granite for —_ a ight years ago. York and San Franc: ip Me! ‘rence! e Illus. ” eres ver these tiny 8 ° is back. i nke oO olgh * caty Bisco Was William Fleming French in the Tilus-| atheee tiny pu Atlas has on } the erection of the Bunker Hill Mon WILLING TO PLEASE pony express, A romantic fea-|in fourteen days, a truly en’ tated World, Chicago. Uncle Sain § : nmunition and food . ument, This road was so constructed ¢¢7 PERE’S a nickel for you, my ture of the West of that day, was|performance, considering will, shoulder Wis full share of the | binging ba unded on thei Driving a flivver isn't so bad if you d 1 rh as to be partially worked by gravity H man," she said to the frayed t of a mail line from New York| distance and tho charester Loew’ | is, ; rants ea lin ; voking Vrancisco, Between St, Joseph, |country traverse, Gervice A similar gravity rallroad wa King individ. to San Francis een St. Joseph, | country traversed by the vb; i tary railroads be- ee Mir o ra Ghance W to ett wor t , . rave bio me 505 a ep er laration for 4 great attack prep: ae y arcs , for hauling coal, the empty xtend I'm not giving It to railway, and Sacramento, the dis-/ger in many sections of the cars and engines once operated on) oii iy destroy the trent Congr Hd shoot that. propose cent | returned by horses, The fl but - merely aversed horsemen from hostile Indians, but ¢ roads in England, Canada, Australia|) sa its-din ren I through faster than a bat ff at of H ; rp ‘ ) but the: , j # behind them. Some ve had a | ment with tives: w i bie ponies,| well paid, their salary hej and South Africa, for, to meet the| ;; ia tae aa ae ‘ont placa in alroulation w ihan ae bs | ' he eing ; 1M are employed in! ° when |the Baltimore an Railroad, you make it led sixty miles,per month. he pony e: emergency, rails and equipment were und ‘ropairing thee thn welts aaked foo some enanding ? a pear ee ; aeyeiah xpress 1 eso man he wife ¢ ne spending fourteen miles of which was opened a quarte urself thor. and then turned r his mall bags, two years, being abandone picked up bodily, loaded on ships and |; a ave beaded to hae : 5 ee sar d wh pent to the war zone, One hundred the fron’ line San't tell w jin Stk, Bog Aras al Bway | OuRt ‘ ARDS 40 ROPE telegraph line a: £0) etaiel lata Can't Whet the Kalser w “ war te gonstructed for tho use of steamjicle Te yb. The weight carried was not to exe: was completed f 4 4