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Show TALK 2000 MILES OVER TELEPHONE NEW TORK. May t.Ffcr tha . first time In history tha human voice carried 2ha miles direct laat nltrht. whan Nw York found Denver over th Ions; dlstanc telephone wire. Manhattan newspaper men In a downtown skysra(er, taiklna to a aroitp In tha Colorado city, picked up Omaha on tb way and also (uswlped with Chloago. A "phantom telephone" ronnacted with four copper wire tha thlckneea of a lead pencil brought th cities tosjether, and In all twenty-two poop) wre exchanstn; nesaaa-es by tha tele phone and the telegraph tele-graph at one on four of the wlrea. While the reporters talked sixteen telegraph tele-graph operators worked the New Tork-Chrra-o nd of four dupiaa tetagraph wire. Th sam four wire and the earn current sufficed for the simultaneous needs of the twenty-two senders and re-4ctver re-4ctver of nwsaaa:. "Tha naxt step Is San Frenclero." declared de-clared J. l. McCsrty, chief nclneer of the American Telegraph Telephone company, who stipe rlntaDded th x tension ten-sion of tha aervtc. "We are oa tb riglit track and before long will hav our wires through from NVw Torfc to Ban Fram-iWf-v " |