And as for the poets, they are now dreaming of the time when a man may speak and hear his own voice come back to him around the world.
The immediate long-distance problem is, of course, to talk from New York to the Pacific.

The two oceans are now only three and a half days apart by rail.

Seattle is clamoring for a wire to the East.

San Diego wants one in time for her Panama Canal Exposition in 1915.

The wires are already strung to San Francisco, but cannot be used in the present stage of the art.