Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Telephone Superseding Telegraph. [ARTICLE]

Telephone Superseding Telegraph.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad is equipping its system with a telephone service, by which it will be possible to do away with the telegraph service, if necessary. Offl-

dais of the road say that the is intended only as an auxiliary qiM tern to the telegraph. It ifi that the new method will effect a e«*Ol ing of 40 per cent. J —