Show Train I It t System Adopted in France By Henry Wood WoodS S United Press Staff Correspondent f P PARIS AlliS Aug 21 French railways have just decided to 1 adopt the American telephone train dispatching system This constitutes the first and most important contribution contribution tion to date to French industry resulting from the thc American American American Amer Amer- ican intervention in the war and the thc American army's I Invasion of France Theres There's Just Jual ono one tl fly In the tho ointment ment at at least In the mind of or the tho average Parisian The latter Is fully tuBy convinced that If It It takes the thc French train dispatcher as nil long to get a telephone connection as It does to get one In I Paris no train will ever get Ket outside of ot the city limits Nevertheless Ne the tho recognition of the superiority of the American method Is genuine and complimentary tary to America America- Tho The dispatching of trains by telephone telephone telephone tel tel- ephone after otter being perfected In the United States was later adopted In Canada Italy and on English lines as well as In some of ot the English colonies France still clung to the thc old time system of train dispatching by telegraph which Is slower and less sure Caused cd d S No Ko small mall sensation was Voas caused in railway circles In Franco France when for tor tho the first time American army railway engineers and trainmen their were seen acen to dismount from train hook up their little portable portable port port- able ablo telephone apparatus at the tho nearest telephone post and telephone tele- tele phone their dispatcher for What caused still more moro sensation sensation sen sen- cation was to see the tho American trainmen get them thorn and that at once Owing to the terrific deterioration lion tion of French railways an i an-i 1 rollIng rollIng roll- roll Ing stock during the war and the difficulties of repairing thorn them In Frances France's present handicapped situation sit sit- nation it is only within tho the past pas few months that tho the French have been able ablo to experiment with some of ot tho the newer and more practice practical methods Introduced by the tho Amen merl cans French Do It The first experiment with telephone tele t phone train dispatching was waK m. o on the lino line between Paris and Chartres It proved such a success that the other French companies immediately gave the system a 1 tryout try try- out the Eastern com company InstallIng InstallIng installing Install Install- Ing It at Nancy and the Paris Paris- Lyon Lyon- Lyon utilizing it between between be be- tween Lyon and DIJon DUon In each case caso the tho success ha has been so great Grent as M to Insure th the eventual permanent use throughout through through- out France Slow This however will be slow a aIt asit ns as It involves not anI only a 1 very heavy expense for Installation but also the tte retraining of ot the entire raila railway rail rail- a way tay personnel In France To Monsieur Pie goes the distinction distinction dis dis- Unction of ot being the first train dispatcher In France France although although h hand he and the thc rest ret of his fellow dis- dis will be known as regu Me lIe Is Is' Is at nt at present In charge of the first tInt system between Paris and Chartre and to him falls fall the task of or In to educate I the he future for all th the French aya |