8 Flashlight Photograph of Scene in Governor's Reception Room When Governor Conversed Across Continent W tiWy ',*i> wSPmf;'..- >'^SE- SSMMHtf^JKZ^fr w4i tafimmmmt i«C / wißr^^r . W> a&tiMfliZ BS%r f^: ** simi >^fi^B ***&' M^^B3^W , >' w&j^MS^FW ■ MmL* m '*r ;ii ' NH H H Hf J IK . ®- /}■ I jk' 1 Ato^ ItW" WflMMttMllSMgTr - mfc £^^m - 4';' m« y PBK ■; GOVERNOR TALKS TO FRIENDS HE PAN-AMERICAN FAIR Bell Telephone Line From 'Frisco to Harrisburg Brings His Voice Across Continent in One-Fifth of a Second; Many Others Speak For the second time In its history Harrisburg has witnessed a telephone achievement which has gone down into the history of the city and the business of telephony. Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday the Commonwealth Band of thirty-five pieces took a po sition under the windows of the Gov ernor's reception room at the Capitol and for an hour rendered popttlar and patriotic selections while there gath ered 150 congressmen. State sen ators, representatives, State officials and prominent citizens from points throughout the State to participate in transcontinental telephone conversa tions between this city and San Fran cisco. At 3 o'clock while the band played the national anthem, Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown, together with Commissioner John Price Jackson, Ad jutant General Stewart, Executive Clerk J. C. Deininger and Leonard IT. Kinnard. vice-president and general manager of the Bell Telephone Com pany of Pennsylvania, entered and took places at a table arranged at one side of the room. Grouped in sections in front and to the sides of this about 3 50 chairs had been placed, and at the side of these in a little pocket each guest found a telephone receiver, through which he could hear the con versation which followed between San Francisco and this city. Talking Across Continent As the strains of the "Star-Spangled Banner" died away Mr. Kinnard rose and after a word of welcome lifted a telephone which was immediately con nected w-ith a room in the Pennsylva nia State building at the Panama- Facific Exposition in San Francisco and greeted Governor Brumbaugh. A telephone was handed to Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown and 17F hearts beat faster as the deep voice of the Governor rang across the more than 3,300 miles of telephone line through eleven States from the shores of the Pacific to the Capitol of the Keystone State. Attorney General Speaks When Attorney General Brown was assured that it was Governor Brum baugh on the other end of the wire he said: "The people of Pennsylvania, rep resented by congressmen, senators, members of the House of Representa tives. State officials, representatives of the press and other distinguished citi zens, assembled in your reception room In the Capitol, congratulate you upon the safe arrival of yourself and party and tender you their best wishes for a healthful and happy outing, and for a safe return. "All's well here. Our people are i! MARKS & COPELIN 31 N. SECOND ST. MARKS & COPELIW |; Final Offerings in Our | Going-Out-of-Business Sale We must clean up the remainder of our stock within the next few days. For to-morrow and !j jj Saturday, therefore, we offer these attractive bargains, one or more of which you are bound to ;! J1 want. But hurry, quantities are limited and they won't last long at these prices. || || ! $16.50 Linen Suits A A $5.00 White (fr-i A|\ s2sFallCoat» (t»Q QQ || and Lingerie Dressesl •UU Dress Skirts .... now priced .. . j; About a hundred garments Horick's English Reps, About 40 coats in fancy mix- |! ;i in the lot, all that remain from Wales and Linen Skirts, worth tures anf j serges in a variety '! I. our vast stock. Values to up to $5.00. , 4 - ' '! ][ SO * of colors, worth up to $25. I $4.98? 9 - 98 "."S:- $1.50 I I! Handsome garments, mostlv i> About 35 suits in all serges, plain tailored effects, in pop- J P chine, |; worsteds and novelty cloths, lins, gabardines and serges, messa » ne . taffeta and chiflfon ;; ;! suitable for early Fall. Values blues and blacks included; val- waists, in a variety of shades, | j; are up to $27.50. ues to $27.50. values up to $5.50. ; ___r ; Marks & Copelin || 31 N. Second Street Harrisburg, Pa. jj ' 1 THURSDAY EVENING, LEONARD H. KINNARD Vice-President of Bell Company, Who Presided at Yesterday's Ceremony. pursuing the even tenor of their ways, and nothing unusual is disturbing their peace. The State shop Is in full blast, with the attorney general's depart ment working, as usual, overtime. "We miss you. With you away 'the old home ain't what it used to be." "Those who go away are happier far than those they leave behind. "Take to yourselves and remind the old bell that: 'Midst pleasures and palaces where e'er you may roam,' "The best place on earth is Pennsyl vania, your home.' "Give for us to the people of Cali fornia this toast: 'May all thqir lives In sweetest bliss be spent, Crowned with Friendship Joy, Con tent.' "And this sentiment to you, and to each of your fellow travelers, from me: " 'Peace be around thee wherever thou roves t. May life he to thee as one summer's day, And all that thou wishest, and all that thou lovest. Come smiling around thy sunny way." "Did you hear that, Governor?" "Every word of it," replied Gover nor Rrumbaugh in a voice as clear and natural as though seated in his office adjoining. "By the way Mrs. Brown, your wife, is here, and will speak with you. Say to my friend, Mr. Stac.kpole, and all the others gathered there, that we have had most cordial and de lightful Journey, that California is a hospitable and pleasant state and that the exposition is marvelous and well worth our patronage. But say also thut while we are mid pleasant scenes and events here, Pennsylvania is still the delight of our hearts." Then the Governor indulged in some experiences of his trip West and wound up with the request that the at torney general speak with his wife. When a feminine voice floated softly across the rz:re Mr. Brown broke in with: "Hello, that you Lizzie?" And when they had exchanged family greeting he closed the conversation with: "Now remember, no misalli ances while you're out there," and Mrs. Brown laughingly assured him there would be none. Following that Miss Brown spoke to her father and then his son, who hoped that "father wasn't working too hard," and receiv ed this bit of advice in return —"Re- member, son, what I've told you, listen to what 1 say, but do what your moth er tells you." Next Dr. Samuel G. Dixon spoke with Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain saying: "Go bless you and His Excellency, our Governor. The Pennsylvanians here wish you and His I Excellency, the Governor, to approve of the lesson on health now exhibited at the Golden "Gate of the United States." "And don't forget to visit the Penn sylvania educational and health ex hibit," he concluded, and the lieuten ant governor said he wouldn't. Commissioner of Labor and Indus try John Price Jackson then talked with Auditor General Powell, telling htm to hurry back as everybody here needed their salaries. "I left my sig nature with the janitor" explained Mr. Powell. Then he asked for the bal ance of cash on hand and an attache of his department promptly informed him that at that minute it stood at $2,089,000. General Thomas J. Stewart next spoke with Governor Brumbaugh and advised him to take good care of the members of his staff who were "need ed back home for ornamental pur poses if for no other." After that Highway Commissioner Cunningham delivered a little talk on the Joys of matrimony to Senator James L. Adams and advised him to bring back a Cali fornia girl to Coraopolis. Dr. Mullow ney, of the State Health exhibit at San Francisco next spoke with E. J. Stack pole and this was followed by numer ous brief messages exchanged between guests and persons whom for the most part they had never seen, across the vast stretch of mileage between. When the wire closed to permit the Governor and his party to attend an official luncheon. Adjutant General Stewart in a charming little speech | thanked the Bell company for those 'present upon the enterprise displayed and the remarkable success of the test. The wire had been open with uninterrupted service for upward of an hour, the conversation beginning at noon in Frisco while the Capitol clock stood at 3.30. First Transcontinental Service Transcontinental telephone service ■was first opened between the Atlantic and Pacific on January 25 of this year, when the first spoken word was flashed across the nation over a cop- HARRISBITRG TELEGRAPH per highway 8,400 miles long, from New York to San Francisco, and on that occasion the first official greetings were exchanged between Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the tele phone, and Thomas A. Watson, his early assistant. Most wonderful of all, perhaps, in the minds of those Who have talked from one side of the country to the other. Is the fact that this achievement, the crowning glory of so vast and complex a system, has taken place within the lifetime of the man who first conceived the telephone. On March 10, 1876, Professor Bell, working away at the crude box-like instrument he had invented, called to his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you," and Watson heard that first of -all telephone messages over the wire. A few months ago in New York the same voice was talking and in San Francisco the sarue ear was listening as on that day thirty-eight years ago, but under what changed conditions'. Then the struggling young inventor and his associate had Jußt succeeded in producing a telephone and talking over a few feet of wire. Now they have seen their simple contrivance aa part of a vast system joining together the country's greatest and most dis tant cities and serving the uses of a hundred million people. In 187 6 It talked from Boston to Cambridge, two miles, and one had to have sharp ears and a good voice at that; in 1882 it talked from Boston to Providence, 45 miles; in 1884 from New York to Boston, 235 miles; in 1895 from New York to Chicago, 900 miles; in 1911 from New York to Denver, 2,100 rhiles; in 1913 from New York city to Salt Lake City, 2,600 miles ,and in this year the men of the Bell ssytem have made it possible for the people on the Atlantic coast to talk to those on the Pacific coast over a line 3,4 00 miles long more perfectly than Bell could talk over two miles those few years ago. From' Harrlsburg the route of the transcontinental telephone line runs through Pittsburgh and from that city to Chicago, Omaha, Denver, up past the canyons to Salt Lake City, over the Sierra Nevadas and down across the western slopes from the snow capped peaks to the Golden Gate. There are four wires, each .165 of an inch in dlametjer; the weight is 87U pounds per circuit mile, that is, 435 pounds per mile to each wire, two wires being required for a circuit; the total weight of one circuit of two such wires is 2,960,000 pounds., or 1,480 tons. That means that the voice of the Governor and of those who con versed across the country set in mo tion an electrical impulse which ener gized nearly 1,500 tons of copper. In this line alone there are 130,000 poles and this link betwene the two oceans is the backbone of a network of 21,000,000 miles of wire between 9,000,000 telephone stations of the Bell system. A voice travels across this line at the almost incredible speed of 56,000 miles per second, or 1-15 of a second from Harrisburg to San Fran cisco. Sound unaided travels 1,160 teet per second, and at that rate if a sound could be produced of sufficient volume to carry across the country it would require more than three hours for it to be heard at the exposition. This is the second time that this city has been the scene of historic telephone achievement, for on Jan uary 27, 1 891, there appeared an ad vertisement in the Harrlsburg news papers reading substantially as fol lows: I "The American Telephone and Tele graph Company desires to announce the completion of the long distance I telephone lines between Harrlsburg, Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Wash ington, New York and intermediate | points, and respectfully invites you to call at the Commonwealth Hotel on Wednesday, January 28. or Thursday, January 29, 1891, to make a personal trial of the service." Clippings from the Telegraph, the Patriot and the Morning Call of Jan uary 29. 1891, indicate that the pre vious eveuing there assembled In the parlors of the Commonwealth Hotel about 150 people, including members of Select and Common Councils, their families and friends. Owing to trouble with the wires, it was impossible to establish a connection with New York, from which it had been planned to play over the line a phonograph record of a selection by the Seventh Regi ment Band. The line to Philadelphia, however, worked splendidly and sev eral musical numbers were rendered by singers of note in that city. On that occasion one of the men who aided in completing arrangements was Leonard H. Kinnard, who, as vice president and manager of the Bell Telenhone Company of Pennsyl vania, officiated at the celebration yes terday. Mr. Kinnard will he well re membered as general manager of the Pennsylvania Telephone Company and for his years of residence in this city. Born in Harrlsburg. Mr. Kinnard has been In the telenhone business tbroui»b his entire business career, serving In various capacities at Harrisburg. Car lisle and rising through po sitions of superintendent of the south ern division, general sunerlntendent, general manager of the Pennsylvania Telephone Company, general contract agent of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and Associated Com panies In Philadelphia, to which city he removed In 1908, and finally to the position of vice-president and gen eral manager in November, 1912. J. Heron Crosman. Jr., of Phila delphia, general commercial superin tendent of the Bell Telephone Com pany of Pennsylvania and well known throughout the State as a former resi dent und telephone official at Harrls burg, also spent the day In this city and took part in the celebration. Immediately following the cele bration each of the assembled guests ' ktft not ■lon* b»«nui« prlcea arc lower* bat bectuM aaalltles are bettei [ i STORE CLOSES TOMORROW AT NOON i p* Now For Our Banner Sale of | faxffi") FRIDAY SPECIALS jj ii %h„ Hundreds of Seasonable Wants at Exceptional Reductions !| || LAST CALL FOR HEMP AND STRAW HATS | !; SI.OO Black Hemp Hats; r SI.OO ands2.oo White Hemp 1 r ji jj Friday special OC Hats; Friday special *3C jj !>' $2.00 to $3.50 Panamas; CAr* 25c and 50c Fancy Trimmings; C ;! special JUC Friday special JC 50c Ladies' Lisle Union Suits. Friday special, 40-inch plain colored Voiles, 25c value. Friday || 290 special 5# j| ;! 25c Ladies' Lisle Hose, red and green. Friday Figured Lawn, 10c value. Friday special, jj special 12}/ 2 t Ramie Linen, 15c value. Friday special ... 5£ jj ;! Cumfy Cut Ribbed Vests. Friday special, 40-inch Brocaded Novelties, 25c value. Friday ;[ !j 90 special !' j> 10c Children s Ribbed Vests. Friday special, iif Figured Crepes and Lawns, 15c value. Friday !j j» 10c Children's Drawers and Bodies, size 2. Fri- special 100 |i ] day special Striped Voile and Figured Crepes, value, 11 25c lot of Corset Covers. Friday special', \2 l Friday special 00 !j j; 50c Princess Slips, white and colors. Friday Figured and Plain Crepes; value. Friday <j \\ special 190 special 80 jl j! 25c Net Corsets. Friday special 100 Porch Seats, 25c value. Friday special ... 150 !> ! I 25c Flannelette Skirts. Friday special .. 12j/£0 Matting Rugs, 25c value. Friday special, 150 jj ]| 10c Men's Garters. Friday special 50 35c Window Screens. Friday special .... 190 jl !I 25c Gent's Neckwear. Friday special .... 100 25c Window Screens. Friday special 150 !l 11 10c Men's Work Straw Hats. Friday special, 50 Linoleum Rugs, 25c value. Friday special, 190 ;j ;! 10° Men's Shield Bows. Friday special ... 50 Large Roll Toilet Paper, 5c value. Friday spe- ;! jj 25c Ladies' Stamped Waists. 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MOTHERS! | Friday morning we shall place on sale You will be interested in our complete * '! m(^ re Aut . um " at f for Ladies, Misses showing of new school supplies and wear- f j, and Children, in all the latest shapes. Work- tu j i !j manship and quality are of the best. !T u u I In trimmings we also show the new ° r needed articles which the jj j! feather effects, velvet flowers, etc., from youngster will require upon his or her re- jj jj which you may choose at our usual turn to school and all at l! jj LOWER-THAN-ELSEWHERE PRICES LOWEST-IN-THE-CITY PRICES jj V * I_> jj !| Soutter's lc to 25c Department Store || WHERE EVERY DAY IS BARGAIN DAY ii 215 Market Street Opposite Courthouse ;i affixed his name to a handsomely en grossed memorial bearing at. the top a pen and ink reproduction of the Penn sylvania State building at San Fran cisco and at the bottom a view of the Capitol, to be presented to Governor Brumbaugh. OKEV SHOT/OM SERVICE The regular Friday evening service at. Ohev Sholom temple, Second and South streets, with the usual choir music, will he held this week. Rabbi Charles J. Freund will deliver an ad dress on "Renewed Inspiration." Morton Tractor Company Plans Big Expansion The increase of capital stock from SIOO,OOO to $1,000,000. notices of which was filed by Morton Truck & Tractor Company, yesterday is but the first step in its plan for a big expan sion of its business, according to S. F. Punkle. Since the beginning of the war, orders for hundreds of tractors and > Dealer Recommends Them \o Cl lit "t■ | *WW 1 M "For over ten /fan I km been naliiK, and hare aold hnndrrda of dor.ena nf CafA'So tablet*. "For Headache* and Xeuralda I know •( nothing better and will always recommend CaCA'So tablets, which I think have no equal." R. A. BROWN, Reading, Pa. At all dealera 10c and 2Sc SEPTEMBER 2, 1915. armored motor cars have been re ceived by the company and Mr. Dunkle says Indications point to the landing of additional orders from the war ring nations. The company is now p - V/Koloaome- M.UUSI^M Bread Direct /com our oven jg{o^sK x i // PKorve £<? your lalce for Vva^oruJ RuKls Pentrook Bakeru. || It's Getting Close to Coal Time || Do you realize that It will be but a short time before we run Into !' , i that weather when a Are In the house will be necessary to health and !> , | comfort? Better be prepared. Look after your bins now, phone us ji j; yn«r order, and we'll Bend you the kind of coal that (fives out the i! ! i greatest amount of heat units —the kind that goes farthest. J. B. MONTGOMERY ; Both Phones Third and Chestnut Streets i j Miww'mMni mi' I turning out several machines a day and with the completion of the ex pansion this output will he greatly in creased. New buildings will probably be erected, an more men put on.
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