Great Cable

Last week, in a cornfield just west of Toledo, engineers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. completed a seven-year job. Their chief put the last of 5,750,000 wire-splices in the longest telephone cable in the world. Sheathed in lead antimony so that it would continue functioning if blown down or covered with ice and snow, capable of carrying 258 telephone conversations and 520 telegraph messages simultaneously, worth 25 millions, the cable wound its way out of the cornfield on its 35,700 poles, eastward through Cleveland, Akron, Newcastle (Pa.), Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Reading and Morristown (N. J.) to Manhattan, where it joined with the Boston-Washington cable; westward through South Bend (Ind.) to Chicago, where it joined with the soon-to-be-completed Chicago-St. Louis cable.