| Show SPEECHES BY TELEPHONE Banqueters In live Cities Will Hear the Same Toasts Chicago Jan ISThe Tribune says The loc = 1 societies of the Massatuiu setts Institute of Technology of Chicago Chi-cago Boston NewYork Philadelphia i and St Louis will hold their annual 1 banquet on the night of Feb 3 and only one toastmaster will be required I to preside over the five different banquets ban-quets The five different banqueting halls will be connected by longdistance I telephones so as to make t possible for each scciety to participate in the I enjoyment Speeches from Governor Roosevelt of New York Thomas A EdlsDn ant others will be heard in each of the hal I Ducting halls At each plate beside the tegulation number of win glasses and 1nives and forks will be placed a tiny I oblong telephone receiver and im I mediately after the punch has been I served the diners b > holdin the little Instrument to their ears will listen to nft rdlnner speeches hundreds of mles atva > I It wa the Northwestern or Chicago society I of the institute that conceive I n 11 he I 1o of connecting by longJistanca wire the five different societies end or inviting to be present in saint suns men as Roosevelt Edison Major I Quirey of Boston Governor Woleott of Massachusetts and others The Northwestern I North-western societys banqueting place vlll be the University club and its president presi-dent will be the toastmaster s5 the I unique entertainment At his i elbow will bo the transmitter for the purpose I pur-pose of calling on and Introducing the Ipngdlstance speakers I |
