THE TELEPHONE IN AMERICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5541, 25 July 1907, Page 2

THE TELEPHONE IN AMERICA.

“A telephone in every room of every house has become the Igiiiraato ’ambition of the American telephono manager. So far ho has succeeded in planting the instrument in every hotel bedroom. At the new Hotel Astior in New York there arc ’25,000 city calls and 2500 suburban and long-dis-tance calls every month, not to mention the thousands iof communications which, hour by hour, pass between the guests in this palatial building. Every thing is talked about, from the •buying of a railroad to the ordering of a luncheon, from Die booking of a passage ‘to Europe to an inquiry ns to the quality o. Clvicno meat. Hitherto,” writes Ernest IT. RaniV, in Cassell's Magazine, ‘‘it has not been possible to talk right across the continent from New Yorlq to Sun Francisqo, but a man in the. former city cun converse with ense with another in Chicago, and the message may, if desired, bn transmit ted for -another thousand miles, and so ,on. with a second 'break, to -its destinat-iorJ on th" Pacific coast. But on; little invention after another is gradually -Improving Die service. Slilo after mile is -being added to the talking distance of the ’phone, and ere long it will.no dnu'bt, bo possible tor a man on (ho Atlantic seaboard to discuss business or social engagements with a friend on the far western edge of the qcmtineut.”