The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-01
and put said city to further annoyance and
expense by your said mandamus suit
Cry OF CAIRO,
BY VIM b. GILBERT,
Corporation Counsel of said city
THE CAMEL'S BACK IS BROKEN!

A COMMUNICATION THAT DID NOT COME OVER
THE TELEPHONE WIRES.
ooh, for lodge in some vast wilderness,
where l might throw my telephone and
tear the squeaking wnthing wires from their
socks and hurl the tangled mass into
oblivion, and lead thelife of a christian once
again. was happy and it was music that
filed my soul, when over the wires come
the mellow and courteous voice Of our de-
parted friend Huff. 1t was pleasure
then, when the elements were under your
control and the telephone played sweeter
music than bands Of angels could play. /
bowed before my "phone" when salutiug
lady at the other end of wire. ] smiled
and smiled again that sweet smile of sat
isfaction that one smiles when he is get
ting his money back. But alas 4! the cleo
trio fluid is escaping. 1t is running wildly
in the wrong channels. The wires are a
Jungle, swerveringghast wreath of mess
that look down on you, and haunt you
with their horried orgies. There is no CEN
trail office; it is cheaper to have none. And
with it, too, Is gone the sweet lutte of
sounds that in bygone days used to emf
nate from the electric gong, to tell you
that your order would soon be executed.
All is gone And we stand BEAcHED on
the brink of despair feastlng upon idle
promises that would starve crow to death,
and upon which we have fed SO long. We
almost wish that we were q resident of New
Madrid, where telephones are unheard OF.
Just how long we can stand this mental
strain and nuisance we do not know, but
we do know that the telephone has been
keeping bad company of late. That is the
management part of it. Understand me,
I blame no one that is not TO blame. And
right here, let me say that the office corps
hath done its duty we'll, considering the
tools they have had to work with. But
they cannot do it all, would
to gracious they could, for the
display of energy otherwise is very
limited. But the executive brain and tai
ent of the establishment is where mad
despair would snatch at its hairs for salts
ton.
What must be done9 We must have
reconstruction of wires, and let the good
work 60 on until every wire is put into
thorough and lasting repair. If this sys-
tenn can't be made to work beyond posi-
blhty of the least hitch in years to come,
give us another system, one that will not
tail us, but will work perfectly, as it does
elsewhere Let us have at least two per-
sons in the Office by day, one cannot exc
cute orders promptly enough. Do away
with the idea of $4,000 man to tend wires
and patch up broken places, and give us
good electriclan,a man that understands his
business, and can adjust a wrong with the
least possible delay. The thing has been run
"on the cheap" just about long enough. We
are tired Of being trihed with, and if you
gentlemen of the Telephone Co. won't step
forward Immediately and protect what
might be our valuable telephone system,
why we say out with the useless boxes,
sooner the better unless some guarantee is
given on which we can base future opera
tons. We are heartily tired OF promises,
and assurances of repairs being done on the
10th OF the month. That don't help our
case of to-day. What we want is reality
AID lots of that in shape of reconstruction.
Gentlemen of the telephone, come to the
front and satisfy us that you mean business
not child's play any longer, If you want us
to stand byyou in the future. But some guar
antee good faith must be made and that
soon or your Cairo branch will be thing of
the past. Step to the front and let US hear
you say your twinkle, twinkle little star
ETC., and send a copy to Beach for him to
file away with Williamson & Co.'S com.
plant. LIGHTNING.