March 24, 1916. 
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BPBLEPHONE DEVELOPMENT 
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Some remarkable strides have been 
taken during the past year in develop- 
ment of the telephone, according to 
the annual report of the American 
Tel. & Tel. Co. just issued by the 
president, Theodore N. Vail. 
__ By means of radio or wireless tele- 
phony the engineering department 
has during the year greatly extended 
the area over which the tones of the 
human voice can be transmitted. 
Speech has been transmitted by wire 
from New York to Arlington, Va., 
and thence by wireless to the radio 
Station at Mare Island, ‘California. 
By these new wireless improvements 
speech has also been transmitted by 
radio telephony from Arlington to the 
Eiffel Tower in Paris, and simultan- 
eously to the Hawaiian Islands in the 
Pacific. 
On account of the European war 
there has been much difficulty in ob- 
taining many of the supplies needed 
in telephone manufacture, and the 
engineering department has, been ac- 
tive in providing substitutes. A new 
kind of insulating paper for cables, of 
which some two million miles is used 
in a year, has been provided and new 
sources found for chemicals used in 
batteries and for the fine hair-like 
iron used in loading coils. 
During the year the engineering 
department has done important and 
confidential work with representatives 
of both the Army and Navy as to 
new methods of wire and wireless 
communication, and it has been made 
clear that the comprehensive wire 
network of the Bell plant by a simple 
plan of co-operation will supply to 
the scheme of National defense a 
working system of communication un- 
‘equalled by that of any other nation. 
Mr. Vail says that the relations of 
the associated companies with the 
various boards of control and regula- 
tion have been most satisfactory, but 
that the operations of these bodies 
should be strictly confined to control 
and regulation and never invade the 
province of management. 
| The Bell companies have been 
foremost to establish and propose to 
continue their efforts to maintain 
‘good wages and good working condi- 
‘tions for their employees, a condition 
‘of the utmost importance to efficiency 
‘of the service to the public. He shows 
that since every legal safeguard has 
been thrown around employees, the 
combination of employees leading to 
the suspension of the service and the 
‘inconvenience of the public, should 
‘not be possible. “Such action on the 
“part of the employees of a ‘public 
utility’ is as unjustifiable and unpar- 
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must be backed up by weather- 
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White Lead 
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cost. 
walls and woodwork. 
Just the thing, too, for inside 
We are headquarters for high-class 
painting necessaries. Write, phone or 
call about paint for your property, 
E, A. LANE 
Manchester-by-the-Sea 
Mass. 
donable as would be an arbitrary sus- 
pension of service by the utility.” 
EXEUAINSe Ess POstLION 
Gloucester, Mass., March 20, 1916. 
To the Citizens of the Twenty-first 
Essex Representative District: 
Inasmuch as in the past, I have 
been honored by your suffrage, I feel 
that I owe you some statement and 
explanation in view of the recent ac- 
tion of the Legislature affecting me. 
Representative Lyle testified before 
the committee that he did not claim 
that I had been dishonest or corrupt. 
In my testimony before the com- 
mittee, I told the truth, the whole 
truth and nothing but the truth. In 
the entire matter, my conscience is 
clear, and I produced for the com- 
mittee frankly and willingly a rehear- 
sal of my acts and doings in refer- 
ence to the matters wherein I was 
charged with indiscreet conduct. 
In all matters pertaining to the in- 
terests of my district, as well as to the 
City of Gloucester, I have always 
worked hard and faithfully. In my 
interest and enthusiasm for the suc- 
cess of legislation to benefit our dis- 
trict, I have taken the most keen per- 
sonal interest and in projects of 
great moment, where it has appeare:l 
that a Legislative counsel would be of 
service to the district, I have openly 
gone ahead, with the knowledge and 
confidence of interested parties, and 
assisted in obtaining money to pay 
such counsel in the connections men- 
tioned above. That has been my 
whole and entire offense. Had |] 
shown less interest in legislation af- 
fecting our districts and left the pre- 
paration for presenting matters to the 
Legislature to others, I should stand 
today without criticism and unchal- 
lenged by no man for my public acts. 
I was placed in a peculiar position, 
in that parties who had collected 
money to employ Legislative counsel, 
- asked me to collect the balance, which 
they had not time to do, and in my 
desire not to disappoint them, I was 
guilty of a breech of Legislative eti- 
auette, and I feel that for my offense, 
the punishment has been extremely 
severe. 
I wish to thank the voters of. this 
district for their confidence and suf- 
frage in the past, and for the many 
kind friends whose sympathy has en- 
couraged me in this time of severe 
trial. 
Yours truly, 
Harry C. Foster. 
