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may not reach by telephone and without 

 wires at all? 



I am struck to the heart to meet my old 

 friend, Mr. Vail, for we have not met 

 since we were young men, and we are 

 not so very old now. Yet we look for- 

 ward to see what Mr. Carty and his bril- 

 liant associates of the American Tele- 

 phone and Telegraph Company will bring 

 forth in the future. 



ADDRESS OF MR. JOHN J. CARTY, CHIEF 



ENGINEER AMERICAN TELEPHONE 



AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 



There are many who are yet to speak 

 to us, and as I have already spoken so 

 many times this evening and to so many 

 places, I must be brief in what I have to 

 say now. 



These demonstrations in which you 

 have all taken part tonight are not the 

 result of the work of any one man ; they 

 are made possible by a long line of in- 

 vestigators, beginning with Dr. Bell him- 

 self. For my own part, I am fortunate 

 in being the chief of the large staff of 

 engineers and scientists which has put 

 into practical form and placed at the serv- 

 ice of the public these marvelous devel- 

 opments which have been exhibited be- 

 fore us tonight. 



Some of these men, I am glad to say, 

 are present with us. There is Mr. 

 Shreeve, who, at the Eiffel Tower, heard 

 the first words spoken across the Atlantic. 

 Mr. Espenschied, who was stationed at 

 Honolulu and heard Arlington talking to 

 Mr. Shreeve at Paris, is on duty tonight 

 at the Arlington Tower, where you all 

 heard his voice speaking to me. Then 

 there are Mr. Gherardi, Mr. Jewett, Mr. 

 Mills, Mr. Drake, Mr. Thompson, Mr. 

 Blackwell. Mr. Robinson. Mr. Arnold, 

 Mr. Colpitts. Mr. Campbell, Mr. Heising, 

 and Mr. England. 



TELEPHONY IS AN AMERICAN ART 



These young men all illustrate very 

 well the character and make-up of the 

 staff. They are all from American col- 

 leges and universities ; some of them 

 trained under Dr. Pupin, whose classic 

 invention, the loading coil, is employed in 

 the San Francisco line. One of these 

 young men is a graduate of the Univer- 



sity of North Dakota and another is a 

 graduate of the University of South Da- 

 kota, and each has taken his postgraduate 

 studies in another university. Instead of 

 going to Germany, France, or England, 

 Avhich was formerly necessary for such 

 advanced work, they did not have to go 

 any farther east from the Dakotas than 

 to the University of Michigan and the 

 University of Chicago, where they re- 

 ceived postgraduate scientific training 

 equal to what they could get in the best 

 European universities. 



It is a most interesting and encourag- 

 ing sign of American scientific develop- 

 ment that two of these young men are 

 from universities in North and South Da- 

 kota, States which were inhabited largely 

 by savages at the time when General 

 Scott was on the frontier conducting In- 

 dian warfare. There was a time when 

 it was necessary for us to go abroad to 

 study the arts, but in respect to one art 

 at least the tide has turned, for in order 

 to study the art of telephony it has long 

 been recognized by the nations abroad 

 that their engineers must go to America, 

 the home of the telephone. 



This splendid recognition which the 

 National Geographic Society has accord- 

 ed to American telephone achievement 

 will be received with feelings of deep ap- 

 preciation by American telephone engi- 

 neers ; and, speaking on their behalf, I 

 can assure you that in the future, as we 

 have always done in the past, we will in 

 all things pertaining to the art of tele- 

 phony keep secure for our country the 

 foremost place in the world. 



ADDRESS OF HON. THOMAS WATSON, OF 

 BOSTON 



I am very proud and glad that I was 

 chosen by the fates to be the associate 

 of Alexander Graham Bell in all the ex- 

 periments by which the telephone was 

 perfected. 



To tell you one-half of what Dr. Bell 

 did during the three years I was asso- 

 ciated with him would take me the rest 

 of the night, so I cannot do it. However, 

 I want to describe the one incident which 

 was very important in the history of the 

 telephone, the night when Dr. Bell and I 

 talked over a real outdoor telephone wire 



