REMARKABLE TELEPHONE FEAT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3050, 11 April 1917, Page 6

REMARKABLE TELEPHONE FEAT

A remarkable meeting was held at the Oberfin College (Ohio, U.S.A.) some time ago. ■ One of the governors of that institution is also a director of the Bell Telephone Company, and he conceived the idea of linking up the two thousand present students and groups of past collegians all over the United States; this he did by means of the great system of whioh he is a controller.

At eight o'clock in the evening the students entered the chapel of the college, ivhero 19/50 telephone receivers had been placed in position. On the stage was a desk telephone, and Mr. &ingsbury, the planner of the affair, sat down and called lip New York. The call was answered immediately, and the 1950 listeners in the hall heard ,the conversation between their host and the New York office, where thirty old students were also hearing all that went on. Buffalo, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and even distant San Francisco were rung up in turn, and greetings passed between ex-Oberliners and their alma mater, every word being audible to the young men and women at that alma mater., A veteran old student gave a three minutes' speech in Chicago, while East, and West listened. The Dean of Oberlin congratulated a speaker in San Francisco on his obvious skill in rhetoric gained thirty years before at the college. Later New York gave the "college y«ll," Chicago repeated it with 300 voices, and when the Oberlin "cheor leader" lot off his 2000 chorus, and the sound re-cohoed from Atlantic to Paeifice. Parents exchanged a few words with their children fifteen hundred miles away, who wero occupying the desks at which they themselves had sat. ■ '■ ,