Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-01-30
Gossip About the Telephone.
New York Sun.l

The colossal financial success Of the Ball
Telephone company has male it compare
lively cas7 for any one wao talks telephone
to got the ears OF capitalists, While the
numb,r OF men who have be,n devoting
'hoir lives to the buildin. Of other All
better telephones than B,lis is great In.
We ltors, professional aal anna ;sur. are
swarm ms over to enhones, like miner, in a
newly discovered gold country. Tue pate 1t
office in Washington is tn, depository, and
IN mos caso' tn, %s,pulchr,, Of a ~tnousanI
and one aopl'ca i9as, specifications, m ode;s,
devices, all having tor th,ir obj 'ct til,
transn .ssion o. the voice throu III cleo.
trically charged wires, There ara aver
projects for tn, transmissio n of sound
through The water at sea from snip
to snip. aud there are plans for
house, fell. arm, AMI almost countless
other telephon s, som, even lodging. the
stumbling bloci that has so lon. protectei
the Bell patents, to wit. Ju l..e Lowe rs do
cisiol that the discovery Of thu pc wer of al
electric current to transmit tn, human
vo.ce is rat.ntlble. A good manv te lephcne
companies have been formed, som, Of them
BAG le1 10y plenty Of money, lie tho Draw.
augn, some Of them unq lestionab y for
tho ourpo,e Of compelling tia B Ill company
to bay OF colnpromis,, possible soma for
the purpose Of maliny q contest vii tn.
Bel on WHICH to get an opinion from the
supreme court Oh the sounlns,s' Of Judge
Loweirs opinion, but all of them coafide 1t
that II th,v olly gej the chanc, t. work it
their telephone will be as great 4 goll mius
as B,lfs has Leon.
1t is not forgotten by capitalists, though
it is parhacs b. enthusiastic i1vo ltors, that
tie Bell COMPANY is a tar better financial
| Sllpca;S thQr 1iS ina tr,ypn 1nt IL n ~poCr oo1
one. Bell h'm;elf, wLo is not a Fl .ancier,
would PROBABLY have go,e tao way of al
poor inventors hal BIO no. happened to
marry tho daughter OF one of thu mos.
sAl!ltul tna1c,er, il the coun ~, and an
ex1erS in t,legraphsc STOCK, ald manage.
neat, Mr.. Gartnor Hubbard. Whel Mr.,
Hubbard tooi boil OF the Ball m china,
org anl2,l the comnar7, aud mana,,l iC
af .er thu manner Ct men ssillei in the 10.
velopm, 1t OF co:po-at, wealth, its financial
srec,ss was assur,d Ntb)dy snows low
much mon y has besn mais for the original
stoc ,holtera. bu5 everybody knows tb 1t
dazz ing lo:sun,s have bsel. Gcl lic,d in
aimo't no t.mA Bat poboly real -; b,t-
ter than NJ. Bdl hat his telcp 40 10 Il
not vet peri,ct,l. Fur from i. I; doe,
not always wort satisfactorily. aad, a, a
general tn ng, for ,oa: d.s5an ., IS prac.
~ KS -" oSOA45SAu J. ~ u
nuisance. as wh,a the u,,: IS cus of, or in
other way, that ST. ,,,5 themselves, 20 ali
users. So Bell is as III lge 10y AZ wori now
as when hs was frs planning it to SAG
whe:a the improvem, lss caa b, made.
o hec companies doub ls,s hive improve.
mants. groat ones, bu5 taes, hav, been
patented, althouSh tn, patents avail little,
be III ie all tl,,s telephones maze Us, oil
to, electric cure 1t for the trans hi ;sion oil
the voice.
Thsre his been Of late unaae,
tionably something Of a reaction
on the part Of the pubic. espso ally
in New Eng,aul, from the high favol
III whoa tie ea!epAone. was bald TIL ha.
been partly du, to III, caarg,s, partly u
inefdc .ency. an IartlT becaui, many cus
toners have cIme to regard these lnstru
ments Us m prs o. a bother than a b,nefa
In Lowol. Holyois. Stanford AMI Gresn
wien vary suYous aoi oryaqi5,l oppo ido,
has bsaa deval ,p,a, 50 that q large pe.c,ut
- go Ct iQstrumsnts have besn 01Esd est