Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-15
DALLAS.
Rival Telephone Companies Challenge
Each Other 10 Trial OF Strength,


Special 10 the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Aug. IA Ever
since the Bell Telephone company
stuck its poles In the soil Of Texas 1t
has been disposed to put on frills, and
to use common but gaudy expression,
to raise hell. At one time
In Dallas, the service became so intol-
cradle that chief business men kicked
and the telephone had 20 WEAKEN, the
manager was bounced and telephone
apologies kept the wires hot for "A week
or so. The next heard from the com
pany Is at Fort Worth, where the poles
are so short "A tall man can't go under
the wire without ducking his head.
and when the council of that city pro.
posed to regulate the height OF the
poles the company flew sobbing to the
bosom Oft Unl' ed states judge for an
injunction against the town. The
Pan Telephone and the Baxter tele-
phone are rivals. The Baker, through
its manager, writes the following:
To Max Elser, Manager OF the Pan Telephone
Company, Fort Worth:
Your telegram Is to hand and [ am
authorized To say the Baxter brought
their electrician from Louisville to
| Fort Worth TO make the test and you
did not come, but at some future time
they VIII test 100 miles or over. We
have no time just now to make the
trip. Respectfully,
! ID. NJ. CLAwER.
With Bakers Telephone.
FORT WORTH, Aug. IA,
To C. 81. Clawer, Manager oil the Baxter Tele-
phone. Dallas:
DEAR SIR-The Baxter company
have never invited or asked our COM
/ pany to make u competitive test
They simply invited us TO see their
Instruments work. Their test, [ am
informed, was made by attaching their
telephone to one end of wire running
to Cleburne. for which they claim
great praise, for how their telephone
would work over two wires just as IL
they had an instrument at each end,
which you IN a practical electric
must know was no test at all. You
say that the test to Cleburne would do
no good. | am under the impression
that this distance would demonstrate
the superiority of the instruments.
but II II IL to) insignificant
I TOT YOU Please uaulS your
wire, distance, line ard place and we
viii be on hand, but mind you we pro.
p Sc to have phones at both ends of
the wire and ak over the entlre dis
: lance and not talk from one end OF
> the wire and imagine IL can be heard
at the other. Hearing il believin :.
, (Signed) MAN ELsER,
Manager of Pan Telephone company
: Mr.. James Arbucsle sold thirty
head of fine cattle for So 900. On,
Hols,ein bull, bought by Godbatt
brought $500 Mr. love, a breeder o
Auslin, fought three Hoist lin heifers
for 1915 S3ta and $3.50 respectively
, A tve-m rnths-old caf brought Sl75
bought TT Ennis.
! Ben Thomas, d. +. Lansgau ant
Black Jim were to-day arrested fol
: horse theft.
Bets are even on the Dallas Brown
Stockings and Galveston Gulf Cit,
base ball clubs, who beg In TO play
e series OF three games In this citN
|, tomorrow on the sta'e league, boz
: sides Will 20 in for blood an,
9 each Is sanguine of carrying OF thu
pennant The games will b. the mos
/: interesting ever piased In the city, n
y there Is more money up than ever be
j, fore.
/ The Dallas county delegates to til,
l. Houston convention wi h meet to.mor
|; row for Tia" purpose of organizing
They will leave in u body SUNDAY
- afternoon for Houston,