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AC1II EVEMEXT.
The front page of t lie Advance
is, generally speaking, for local
news. Occasionally, however, an
event of general importance will
break into it, either through a
fleath of local news or else thru
its very importance. The result
of a presidential election or the
opening of a world war in Eu
j rope will get the front page of
this newspaper even though Pas-
(juoianK is in tne midst oi a local
election.
Likewise the editorial page of
the Advance is for views on local
Issues; hut occasionally we di-
jlCOl iUlU 111 VI l. UlMillM I.ClU-
Alttd when a great achievement
':'::Z,m lfkft tlm trnvprsincF of tlio conti-
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. : .jnent by thejtelepodbirds conatun
mated, and the event almost ig
nored till a more convenient sea
son by the great daily press we
feel that more than a flippant
paragraph or mere passing men-
tion is due.
The men who spoke across the
continent ou Monday, January
25th, were men long accustomed
to the miracle of the telephone;
and yet when a voice on the At
lantic brought instantaneous re
sponse from the Pacific the old
est of them could not escape a
trrill of wondering, awe and a
mazement. Indeed some knowl
ege of the problems and difficul
ties that were to be overcome
adds to the exultation that one
feels in the success of the under
taking.
It was, perhaps, a little more
, difficult to string wires from Deu
' ver to San Francisco than from
New York to Denver, but the ac
tual construction of the Hue was
the least of the engineering trou
bles. His real problem was to
make the line "talk", to send
something l,(MHI niiljes with a
breath as the motive power. In
effect, the voyage of the voice
across the continent is insauta
lieous; if its sjeed could be accu
rately measured, a fifteenth of a
second would probably he nearly
exact. In other words a message
flying across the continent on the
new Trans continental Line trav
els not at the rate ofl,l(iO ft per
second, which is the old stage
coach speed of sound, but at r6,
000 miles per second. If it were
jtossible for sound to carry that
far, a 'UeWo' uttered in New
York and traveling through the
air without the aid of wire and
S- lectricity ; would not reach Sun
Francisco until four hours later
The telephone now only trans
mits speech but trans
inits it trou8auds of times faster
than its own natural speed.
But, while the telephone is
;' breaking aeed records, it must
also guarantee safe delivery to
; Jo these millions of little passen
4 V 1 A . . . -
gen it carries every' few minutes
in the way of sound waves creat
ed at the rate of 2,100 a geeoadL
There must be no jostling or
crowding. These tiny waves,
thousands and thousands of va
rying shapes, which are made by
the human voice, and each as ir
regular and as different from the
)the, other as the waves of the
a, inut not tumble over each
other or get into each other's
way, but must break upon the
Pacific coast ' just as they start
ed at the Atlantic, or all' the
line fails and the millions of
dollars spent ujon it have been
thrown away. And in all this
line, if just one pin Hint of con
struct ion is not as it should be.
if there is one iota of imperfec
tion, the miles of line are useless
and the currents and waves and
sounds and words do not reach
the end as they should,. It is
such tremendous trifles, not the
climbing of mountains and the
bridging of chasms, that make
the Transcontinental Line one
of the wonders of the ages.
The engineer in telephony cau
not increasn his motive power. A
breath against a metal disk chang
es air waves into electrical cur
rents and these electrical cur
rents, millions of which are re
quired for a single conversation
must be carried across the conti
nen t and produce the same sound
waves in San Francisco as were
made in New York. Mere is a
task so tine as to be gigantic. In
his 'History of the Tele-prone,'
Herbert X. Casson says that
the energy set frcel by cooling
one spoonful of water just one
degree, would operate a tele
phone for ten thousand years. It
was to nurse and coax this baby
current of electricity three thous
and miles across the continent,
under river and over mountains
through the blistering heat of the
alkali plains and the cold of
snow-capped peaks, that has tak
en the time and thought and la
bor of tre brightest minds of the
scientific world.
In spite, however, of the fact
that, compared with the electri
cal problems, the mere engineer
ing task of constructing the line
may appear simple (to the scien
tist, no one can mn his finger
over the route of the new line
on the map without being im
pressed with the magnitude of,
the undertaking. The data and
figures are tremendous. The
line crosses thirteen states it
is carried on i:i0,00) pedes. Four
hard-drawn ', copper wires, .1(1")
inch in diamte, run nixie by
side over the entire distance, es
tablishing two physical and one
phantom circuit. One mile of a
single wire weighs) 43.r pounds.
the weight of the wires in the
entire line being r.!)LM),000 pounds
or LVKio tons. This, of course, is
the transmission wires alone. In
addition to tlicsv, each physical
circuit .uses some d 3,600 miles of
fine hair-like insulated wire
4--1.000 of an inch in diameter,
for itsi loading coils.
Simply to string this immense
amfunt of wire across tre conti
nent. to set the poles ami insure
insulation, to conquer the innu
merable difficulties offered by the
water, land, forests, mountains,
deserts, rivers and lake, was in
itlf a task of no mean magni
tude. The Panama Canal is hail
I
ed as one of the greatest achieve
meats of the world's workers, as
it is, but the almost invisible
l ues of the Pell System, consid
ered simp'y as to labor and cost
constitute a monumental achieve
nient.
The Canal was legun nine
years ago and has cost 310,000.
000; within the same space of
time the Bell Company has spent
twice that amount in its engineer
ing construction work alone.
An exchange says that a for
eigner visiting in New York thinks
that every State should have a
State Theatre,:' North Carolina
already has one it appears with
bi-ennial performances, and farce
comedy predominating.
HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Florence, South Carolina i
not far from Elizabeth City'
size, and from a recent issue of
the daily pajier there we clip
the following:
"One of the great problem
wlii-li every movement for civic
advance has to meet is that of
giving up to all elements of team
worK. Harmonious coopera
tion of all interests is necessary
A great many communities
are cursed by petty jealousies
Their power for mischief affects
evlery publw- entk'rprrso. If
one man starts a movement, all
the people who do not like him
begin to throw cold, water. They
make sarcastic remarks about
his project. The result is that
people feel disinclined to take
hold ;ind push, for fear lest
thev make themselves ridiculous
It is difficult to promote pub
lic objects; under the most fav
orable Conditions. The mo
ment that people let persona'
feeling enter in. it. becomes
impossible to get unity of ac
tion. One set of people will
try one thing, only to see it
fail under a wet blanket of
ivouicall skepticism. They feel
disgusted, and the next time
any one else starts anything.
they in turn stand back and jeer
The practical outcome is that
every one" feels afraid of starting
any new movement, for fear of
becoming ridiculous. It is easier
to stand on one side; ami make
superior remarks about the poor
judgement of your neighlwirs
than to take bold and push. Ci
vic sentiment dissipates?, and the
town's growth languishes.
Is there anything of that spir
it here? Most towns have some
thing of it, and some have far
tnore than others. In so far as
it exists ptople should get over it,
They must pull together, ignor
ing personal differences, if they
want Florence to advance in pop
ulation and public advantages.
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Only a few machines for rent.
Any person wishing to rent
should make arrangements to
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OFFICE
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Railroad
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Dress Pullman Sleeping Cars
for Raleigh, Newbern and Inter
mediate Stations.
9:58 A. M. Daily for Edenton
1:00 P. M. Daily for Raleigh
Goldsboro and Intermediate
pojnts. Pullman Parlor Car
for Newbern.
NORTE BOUND
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and Intermediate Stations.
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Elieabeth City. N.O.
J. D. STACK,
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TV, D. COX,
Attorney at Late
MOYOCK, N. C.
Currituck Courthouse each
Monday
JULIAN W. SELIG
Eye-Sight Specialist
finite 315 Hinton Bldg.
Elizabeth City,
'Phone 833
DR. D- C. McCLENNY
Osteopath
321, 322 Hiaton B'ld'g
Hours 9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday by appointment
Residence Southern Hotel
DR. S. W. GREGORY
Dentist
Office in New Einton Building
Corner Main and Martin St.
DENTI8T
DR. M. M. HARRIS
Kramer Building, Main Street
Hours 8 to ,12 and 2 to 8
J. H. WHITE, D.D.3.
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m all Branches
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Stove
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208-209-210 Kramer B'ld'g.
Elizabeth City, N. C.
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system revised and simplified '
Accuracy, neatness and prompt
ness guaranteed. Your
work solicited. t.-,2
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At H C Bright's Jewelry Store
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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Architects
WILSON, N. C.
Architects for Elizabeth
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