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Show Talking 1,400 JHIts., , A good deal of talk has been indulged in-dulged in about the tucccssful experiment In long dhtacce telephoning tele-phoning which is said to have been recently made between Moscow and Boulogne, a distance of 2,4-50 miles. Experts in this city discredit the 'statement, and also the accompany, lng rumor that tho Jlusslan cngin-eersarolnaklLg cngin-eersarolnaklLg preparations lorn similar test ovor tyXrl miles of wire. In speaking about the telephone as a means ot long distance commun-ieation. commun-ieation. Mr. Angus B. HlVUard, the general superintendent of the American Long Distance Telephone Company in this city said, today. iiHiHK j "Asamatterof fact, I doubt very I much whether there is in tho neigh-borhood neigh-borhood a plant ot wires over which such an experiment ctuld be successfully suc-cessfully carried out. If, however, the Rus-iau engineers have a plant properly laid out in accordance with the best Ideas Hint we have at the present-time, they inighl do it. We have talked over our cwu lines in 'ex-icximeriling a distance of 1,4(K miles, but there Is not in America a plant which is so laid out that con-ver-alluncan be carried on nny further fur-ther than that. Tiie- experiment I refer to was made from Philadelphia to this city thence 'to Boston and return, and up the Hud son Bivcr to Buffalo. We have now in operation 55 000 miles of wire, withntllcesas far away as Boston and Buffalo, an j c expect In reach Chicago cr soon.. I have no doubt as to tLo icsult of a line to Chicago. Tn our excrimeuts w have never reached a limit, and It is among the range of possibilities that San J"rau tH willj be brought into connection with -Sew York at no ViTr .Httant dar. The best results in telephony have been obtained Iy using cojper wires In a metalli - circuit, that Is, by using an extra wire for the return re-turn current instead of tile ground as In short lines and telegraphy. Experiments have been made In this ccuntry by doubling up vires running belueeu two points, but this cannot le consideml as a fair UsL The wires run on one line of po'.eF. and tiie induction from one wire to another makes it as If the distance were, only, about thiity mihsorso. V could lilb 1l up our n hole system of "W-OOO miles: of wire ami talk over it , to that any one sitting sit-ting iuanotherroom could hear it, tut it would be untrue to toy that the sound of my voire actually travelled ovtr the whole ilMancr, for the reason I haie state-. ' "In America we are away ahead of an thing they have done iu Europuiu the matter ef long distance dis-tance telephoning. France lias probably as long a system, as any country on the ether side, communication commun-ication having 111 established between be-tween Paris and MirstlllcK a distance dis-tance or 590 miles. England has not nude any gnat progress in the business, but Germany has tho most jierfect local tele-phono s stems In the world. Tiie Berlin exchange-has exchange-has 10.000 subscribers, or about 1 DUO more than we lmp here In X.-ur York. "It is unlikely that we shall e'er have telej hone communication w illi Europe, iu vien of Iut xre know to-eiay. Placing llie v. Ics In cat Ies throttles the effect of the telephone and weakens and dtmi)is it, so that the eight miles of underground wire in our line fro-n hjtfe to Boston seems to place that',clrj' 3M miles farther away than it" really Is. Businessmen cf all clas-is) use the telephone now Irf-twetii llii-ccityand Boston, and our eighty wires le-twe-e-n the two cities are kept hot ail Uie time. Bad weather dots not affect af-fect the working of t e tilt-phone wires as it does the telegraph lines-, and In this the telephone is superior U-cau-ejjou cannot hang a man on a hook as j ou eun Lis telegram. .Vcw 1'orZ. MijiTtu. S53 |
