On the 29th of June, in the year 1877, the first Presidential phone call was made between Rutherford B. Hayes at Rocky Point and Alexander Graham Bell in Providence. Fred Gower, the managing agent of Professional Bell, moderated the call. The instrument resembled a rather large-sized bobbin. Bell said, "Mr. President, I am duly sensible of the great honor conferred upon me in thus for the first time presenting the speaking telephone to the attention of the President of the United States." The President listened carefully while a gradually increasing smile wreathed his lips and wonder shone in his eyes more and more, until he took the little [unreadable]. The call was spoken through 13 miles of wire from City Hotel in Providence to Rocky Point.
