Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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miles as early as 1893, it was not until 1905 that conversation could be had over long-distance circuits of which as much as 20 miles was in underground talking cables. By 1906 underground talking distance had increased to 90 miles. By 1912 it was possible to talk underground from Neiw York to Washington. It was then that the construction of underground conduits from Boston to Washington was determined upon—not that it was expected to get a through underground talk between those places, but in case of storm or blizzard, to utilize intermediate sections in connection with the overhead. Oilr persistent study and incessant experimentation have produced results more remarkable We have perfected cables, apparatus and methods that have overcome obstacles heretofore regarded as insuperable both to long-distance overhead and underground conversation. Underground conversation is now possible between Boston and Washington, four times the length of the longest European underground line. This enabled the 8611 System in the recent great storm, so destructive on land and sea, to maintain communication for the public between all the principal points on the Atlantic seaboard. < Telephone communication is established between New. York and Denver, is potentially possible between all points in the United States. and by 1915 will be an aecomnllshed fact between New York and San Francisco. In our use of methods or apparatus, we are 1 committed to no one system. We own, control . ; or have the right to use inventions necessary to < operate any system recognized or accepted as the most efficient. The Bell System must always recognize, and in its selection must always be gov- < erned by the necessities of a national service, 1 with its complex requirements, which is infinitely ! more exacting than focal or limited service. These achievements represent vast expenditures ' of money and immense concentration of effort I which have been justified by results of immeas- < urable 'benefit to the public. No local company ' unaided could bear the financial or scientific J burden of this work. Such results are possible ' only through a centralized general staff? avoid- ’ ing wasteful duplication of effort, working out < problems common to all, tor the benefit of all. The pioneers of the Bell System recognized that J telephone service as they saw it. was in the < broadest sense a public utility; that upon them ' rested a public obligation to give the best pos- * slble service at the most reasonable rates consist- < ent with risk, investment and the continued im- ’ provement and maintenance of its property. < Without this expenditure of million* and con- < centration of effort, the telephone art as it exists ' ’could not have been developed. ‘ < What we have done in working out these great < problems in the past should be accepted as a ' guarantee Of what we will do in the future. J THEO. N. VAIL, President. 5