Show Telephones on Fast Trains On some of the best railway trains of the day telephones form a part of the equipment The system Is so arranged that when the cars stop in large stations sta-tions connection can be made with the regular telephone circuits of the dltles This service It is announced is to be Improved and extended It Is ono of the notable features of modern railway progress In these days when even the ship far out at sea holds communion with distant dis-tant shores and with unseen companions compan-ions on the deep It seems almost an anomaly that a train always on solid land and always within view should be even for a moment cut off from the field of converse Undoubtedly a development de-velopment not long to be delayed Js that which will bring into telephonic range the express speeding as well as the express at rest What a marvel of comfort and convenience con-venience will be worked when the tourist tour-ist for pleasure or business can ring up from his parlorcar seat the home the office the club for such communion as the impulse or emergency of a moment mo-ment may dictate New York World |