Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-19 | Page 1 | Simple Services for 'Phone Pioneer

SIMPLE SERVICES FOR THONE PIONEER PARSIPl-IANY, N. J., April 19. Simplicity marked the funeral here of Theodore Ns Vail, former vhead of the American Telephono and Telo-graph Telo-graph company In the little cemetery where his father, mother and ancestors ances-tors wero interred before him. Interment was preceded bv services at the old Presbyterian meeting house With the Rev. G. c. Houghton of "The Little Church Around tho Corner" of Xew'York, officiating. As a mark of respect for the former for-mer heart of the'great wire system, service on all Bell telephones In the country was suspended for a period of one minute at . 11 . o'clock, eastern i standard time. ' 1 j