Show TELEPHONE Illinois Central Railway Will Use It For the Purpose of Dispatching Its Trains The announcement by the Illinois Central Central Central Cen Cen- that It would Install the telephone for train traira dispatching purposes on 1000 miles of its line Is creating a great deal of comment and speculation in the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road world This is not the first experiment experiment ment of this system with the telephone for operating purposes as aa it has at prescot present present pres pres- ent cot two sections of its lines so equipped and from the reports that have been given out by the officers of ot the system the experiments experiments experiments ex ex- ex- ex have hae proven entirely tory Between Omaha and and Council Bluffs la Ta a distance of seven seen miles and for a distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance of ten miles into New Orleans the Illinois Central has been using the telephone telephone tele tele- phone phon for some som omel t tino to op operate te p t trails and has found it to th o gi give good service both f for moving passenger and freight trains These lines havo have been used and were in installed Installed Installed In stalled as an experiment and it Is largely du duo to their success and the successful use of the telephone by the oth other ether r lines notably the St. St Charles that the system has determined to put the Instruments instruments instruments ments on 1000 i miles mies s of at its telephones to too move trains while it was as elevating Its tracks In Chicago with perfect success I Ial al although though trains passed dally daily overt over the e tracks that were so equipped d I Ito li IRrl It is t the intention t n of the Illinois iS Central to test the telephone on the tracks where it will be shortly installed and if this more extensive experiment gives as good results as or on on- the two short Sections of the line the telephone will certainly be ba put iUt on many more miles and possibly over the entire system of miles The telephone Is not to supersede the telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph entirely but the two will be operated operated operated op op- op- op side by side and the relative value of each determined It is said with reference to the comparative comparative comparative safety of the two instruments that the telephone admits of greater speed and accuracy in spelling out and repeatIng repeatIng repeating repeat repeat- ing messages and that as a check on the themE themen themen mE men n it is much ahead of the telegraph Instrument in determining the physical condition of ot the operator and that sleepiness sleepiness sleep sleep- iness Incas and drunkenness on the part of an operator can be bo more readily detected In addition it puts the head offices in closer touch with t the men along t the line and Jei a personal e en n conversation o r illo can be held l' l with any at almost a moments moment's notice i it It is also serviceable cb In keeping r tab on t the absence eS of r any from on his post With the telegraph an need not give an account of himself for absences from his post of duty as there are many delays Incident to the transmission transmission sion slon and delivery of ot messages and the telegram can frequently be answered by bya a a. clerk or fellow With the telephone when the man called for falls taUs to respond questions can be asked and am an explanation for tor the absence us II-us must be fJ made |