Show ng euro europe P e fa fad d of society soc ety per cent of individual calls during 1928 were social calls now york telephoning to europe by wireless Is bo becoming comIng a social fad in america cis as well at as i an important aid to business according to theodore 0 miller general manager of the lines department of the american telephone and telegraph company forty per et cent of individual culls calls during 1028 were social calls with roes med tinges from bankers brokers and business men ranking just above he be declares declare in an interview in the amerl can magazine growth of international telephoning has been tremendous miller udde adds the number of calls to i aci alln madrid vienna and other cities in europe and south outa america having grown from 2000 in imoto 1027 to more than in the past year potentially all of the telephones in the cities towns and isolated farina in the c united states are linked with those of the eastern world giving a total of instruments hooked up in one great circuit international telephones were first presented t to 0 the pub uc he in january rw nv 1027 and by the end of the year 2000 persons persona had availed themselves of the new method of communication muni mu n leation cation in 1028 more than individual calls were handled the longest distance call was from san diego calit calif co 10 Stock stockholm bolm sweden a span of miles marvels of wireless using the san diego stockholm call as an example of the marvels manela of wire less telephoning miller hiller pointed out it were possible to talk tails loud enough to be heard in stockholm from san diego U il would require 12 hours for the sound waves of the voice to travel the distance since the speed of sound waves Is on only y miles an hour them the wireless telephone waves however travel at tho the rate of HOW miles an hour speeding up the tha conversation to one fou fourth rth of of I 1 a second for the journey in discussing the social uso use ot of uie the international telephone miller told of the celebration by mr and mrs wil I 1 ter alired alfred moy may ot of pittsburgh of their silver wedding anniversary an they took 04 from to par pa tor fot the affair and at the close of abott dinner the guests were invited to coll call up their friends back bach home at hosts expense another man from illinois wits was in paris on business arid and lost the shopping list fils bis wife had given him and he called her nt at leoine biome to renew the list newspapers have bare frequently used the phone to verify reports of engagements of noted people editors have found that thai persons who would not consent to an interview by reporters on the are so BO impressed by being called over the international ul telephone that they answer all questions fully miller also recalled how the german correspond ent schultz or of cne Zel tung stood uta ut a telephone under a soft boft drink stand at I akehurst N J on the occasion of the arrival of the graf zeppelin and dictated a story which was taken down by a stenographer in the berlin of the tha paper plays playa market by phone miller also recalled a visit of W C durant dubont the automobile magnate to london several months ago he was confined to his bis hotel by a slight ill ness but was keenly interested to la tl the new york market when the waiter arrived with his breakfast he be naked asked him to call new york and give no an order for the purchase of shares of 0 general motors the waiter in a high state ol of agitation placed tile the order and started gathering up tile the dishes wait antt said durant call them again and tell them to buy 10 OW more nod and before the waiter could hang up thy the receiver durant ordered more inure shares thus a waiter valter with a in his pocket hud had riotously spent so pooW over t the he phone with a man nilles miles away durants Du rants transatlantic telephone bill in london was 2000 and tile his mills at times were of an hours duration |