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THE TELEPHONE: "AMERICA'S MOST POETICAL ACHIEVEMENT".
A distinguished English journalist, who was visiting the United States, in 1917, on an important governmental mission, had an almost sublime illustration of the extent to which the telephone had developed on the North American Continent.

Sitting at a desk in a large office building in New York, Lord Northcliffe took up two telephone receivers and placed one at each ear.

In the first he heard the surf beating at Coney Island, New York, and in the other he heard, with equal distinctness, the breakers pounding the beach at the Golden Gate, San Francisco.

Certainly this demonstration justified the statement made a few years before by another English traveler.