Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1917 — TRAINS BY TELEPHONE [ARTICLE]

TRAINS BY TELEPHONE

Displacing the telegraph, the telephone is to be used for dispatching trains on the entire line of the Southern railway system between Washington and Atlanta, 649 miles. Between Washington and Spencer, N. C., the telephone is now in use, and authority has just been given for the construction of two copper telephone circuits between Spencer and Atlantj* 314 miles.