Telephone Lines P.2

San Francisco converses with New York, inaugurating transcontinental telephone service on January 25, 1915. At table from left: G. E. McFarland, president of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; C. C. Moore, president of the Panama-Pacific Exposition; Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell when the telephone was invented; Thomas B. Doolittle, who had perfected a process for making hard-drawn copper wire which speeded the early development of long distance service; Mayor James Rolph, Jr.; and H. T. Scott, chairman of the board of the pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.