Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1917 — Network of Wires For The Army Cantonments. [ARTICLE]

Network of Wires For The Army Cantonments.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 10.— Completion of the new army cantonments, aviation fields, naval bases and other government war projects will find them linked in a network of telegraph and telephone which will make possible instantaneous communication both with the department authorities at Washington and among themselves. Hundreds of miles of pole lines have been and still are being built to assist in the mobilization of the nation, and both trained men and material are being added daily to the many branches of the government requiring increased communication facilities. Washington is the nerve center of a constantly growing system of wires radiating in every direction to the scenes of the national activities. The work of the telegraph and telephone companies is improving government communication has been directed chiefly through the committee on telegraphs and telephones of the Council of National of which Theodore N. Vail is chairman, and which acts under the general supervision of Daniel Willard, chairman of the committee on transportation and communication.