Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1915 — Railroads Use Telephones. [ARTICLE]

Railroads Use Telephones.

Telephones have displaced telegraph instruments for train dispatching service on 60,000 out of the 260,000 miles of railroads lh this country, C. H. Wilson, superintendent of long distance wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, told Special Examiner Marshall of the interstate commerce commission, who was holding a hearing on the complaints of the Grain Dealers’ association of Chicago. The grain dealers allege discrimination by the telegraph companies, by leasing telegraph wires privately to the disadvantage of the public. L. B. Foley, general superintendent of the Delaware, Lackawanna A Western railroad, testified that his road had been operating trains for five years on telephone dispatches without a mistake.