The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-16
A Long Distance TeiephOne.

had uador iis ferret pr.erss ui exumin-
alton about The most curious aud fun
ny ease OF stock maaipuin'fau eyef
known. Men hH tsfnsl themselves
tua hfev @ tahs oiled. 81 lulIctous-
. lt taken in u d toeH4aue taai pit-
. tended tu run to Cb.aaa. hut renl5
h8d Us Ut.tr esd BOZ ihe cellar OF tne
s.tiHe HHiltHE where tt br- n. That
was all the.- NHs OF long distance
/ scheme sU enthusiastically advocated
I by ". ID Ailu,. Wien this young
man camc % New Aatk he entered the
/ rloiuce Exchange and drove a tbriv-
/ iug business As a .ot-l aacr. A. he
I had formerly been employed by II. a.
AfmuuJ the Chicago sprculator, b.
/ wa. generally believed that De repre-
synlea that house ~ the Stock EX-
claugr lie dil actulIly execute some
orders Tor Armour aui sl 10 came
about that the other brokers on The
floor watched bis aeg.Uus closely
When he bought tuey followed. So be-
made money fast. fog 4 be- u-rghI 10
. q gwen .inr ut siUak created such an
immlute demand tha. the price always
rose several points. Uhereuyun Miles
sold at q handsome profit. when .he
hUg5 at .as, sass tiathe was sptCWat-
iug tor himself. and MT acting on IN
structlous for Armour, they changed
tnelr tactics, aud when be- bought they
sold. MIls. of course, lost good
deal Of money, in his tutn, discovered
that he had exhausted The possibilities
of hls scueme lie has hair and beard
of very rusate hue. aud be had not
been Ia The Produce Exchange many
DAYS before lac WIS WyknHutd mo .
/ Red" al er a variety of grain. and by
that suhuquet be- is universally known
to-day. he hw = pleasant address,
aud won many friends.
No. long ago he began to take ur
long distance telephnuiug. II was gen.
erally understood th,t he possessed i'm
s.li Of rights In great Improvement,
that Woull render communication be-
tween such points as New York and
Chicago a simple matter. After u Will,
he announced that he had gone to the
expense of getting temporary con.
nectiou with the city by the lake, and
had placed telephone in his Office
He was 50 brilliant q fellow, and, with,
al. So attractive personally, that be
found lit,lr difficulty in interesting his
friends in the enterprise. IL was the
same old scheme. TO start off with q
capital stock Of S2O1,0a0. OF which ten
|, per cent should be subscribed TO pdS
for advertising, construction expenses
/, Iperhap., and other outlays. Bat he
di1 not want anybody To put money
into IL before it had been tried, and
gentlemen interested might investigate
the cunlryauce at wiA at his office
lie wa, uuW member OF tie stock Tx
. change, and several operators wtnI
: down TO his Broad Street office ant
tried The telephone. II worked TO 1
charm The Chicago mans yolc,
could be head with perfect distinct
mess. They inquired about stocks
! quotations in grain, The weather. ant
9 all questions were answered prompt
'|ly ANA clearly They compared tb'
adyiees received with The ticker. an,
tlutd ttea correct iu every particular
10 Wa5 - big thing. The boom started
and i grew
There's 10 hurry about this" salt
=; M . Red" Il have to 20 tO Cbicagt
TINS week Call me up when | gel
! there ana let me talk to you" On th,
!. day appointed, his friends applied ,hei
! lips to the transmitgeg in Broad street
d ana in response TO their "llow.dp dol
4 came he well known voice of ''No.
. Red" with his same 10 you, thank ye.
/. lt wns wonderful One would hav
thought The auburn haired operate
I, was 10 further away than Wall street
!, or H0hokpu. at the most. stock Wa
(. freely subscribed, aud thrten per cent
paid in, it Is asserted. to the tune o
$4,000 Some of this was oertainl
!. spent n advertising, but mighty iittl
:. 10 construction.
But one day, as the business did nS
seem 70 develop very fas,, one ssepii
hard hearted and uukind, made an ol
icinal myesligatiaa, an discovered th
! Chicago end of the wire in mo. Reds
cellar. There a silent. or rather an al