The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-25
BELL.s TELEPHONE
A Brief Romance If she luyentoi =
tariy Life.

In conn eciion with The II r LII :
editorial comments upon the gigan e
mo opoly OF the Bell T,lephon ~ a
few men who have suddenly acquire d
immense fortunes upon Irifing out
lay. the history of the inventor, which
reads like d romance and reminds ore
not unnaturally of the wonders of AlaC-
din's lamp. may prove interesting 10
the readers. 1t is as follow
Professor Alexander Graham Bell
was man inside the tbirtes when he
landed upon our shores 10 seek bis for
tune. He had no money, no fri nds
and his only stock i'll trade was ; =
I IN of teaching hp-reading to the
deaf. This system, invented b.
his father, ali eminent teacher 0I
elocution in Scotland. consisted of d
series of symbols or diagrams represent
ing the d tferent f"ruIttl rs of h
human Voice, admirably adapted 10 the
clear enunciaron of his ideas. but this
system known a, Profe sor BELLS W.
| lDl6 OpccCu, lOT ilc p-'tIil Is actually
visible, but not being audible also Is ne,
| much OF success. was IUuud h. ~
perience to be too severe AMI labOrious,
taking more time than IT would hav
taught words merely by practice, ana
the system has becone iii used at the
present time.
Upon his arrival IN Boston, PROBES O.
Bell opened a private sci DOL of art'cnia-
ton for the deal, and taught elocuiicn
and atory to ambitious public speak
ers and others Of that class.
The writer perfectly rempn bers the
struggling young professor in his lean
frame, well-brIIshtd garments. stia.
Cling beard and ever che, rful smile.
The time then was when he would drop
into a social gathering of deaf mute-
and make love to the prettiest young
lassie in Natures own lang uage OF sign
with which he was well acquainted
though he protested TO teach the or
system, pure anu simple. In those day s
we used to think the eminent professor
had no dignity whatever, for he would
romp and make things pretty isely
in ball room, | suppose, however, he
acted upon the maxim,
| "a little nonsense now and then,
lsrelished by he best OF men"
His sole object in coming to Boston
was to introduce his fathers svs-
tenn OF visible speech into Amer
lea. For that purpose he taught
his classes in public and delivered lee
lures upon his favorite topic.
His second object was to establish u
day school upon his own system i'll The
metropolis OF New England. His new
system made little impression al first
and was generally adopted, but on &C
count of the difficulties of the method,
it has lost ground in popular favor.
though its aim was excellent. He sue
ceeded in founding day school upon
the pure oral method in the HUI.
which has lately received an appropria-
ton of $69, 600 for new building in that
city.
1t happened, however, that among
his deaf pupils was a talented
young poetess, known as How
ard Glyndon," who has since mar
ried New York lawyer OF
some prominence. Her real name was
Laura c. Redden. Having been total,
deaf from childhood, she eagerly seized
every opportunity of improving her
condition. She had peculiarly sen9i-
tive organization which vibrated il
hidden unison with outside influences.
Frequently when thrown in contact
with sounds, she could readily feel their
intensity and recognize them. She re
lated her experiences with sounds to
Prof. Bell, who became interested to
such degree that he resolved to follow
up this clue to the secret labyrinth of
acoustics and so he did. The idea
which was suggested to him was that
sound could be transmitted in other
|
avenue of hearing. With this idea in
view, he made various experiments
with other deaf pupils in his class,
and the results were such as 10
satisfy him of the correctness
of the view. He then abandoned teach
ing for a season and returned to the
quiet town of Salem, where he thought
and labored on the great problem OF
transmission of the human voice.
In the meantime, there had been
among his dear pupils one young lady
who, without being beautiful and wise,
was yet sweet in disposition and modest
in demeanor. Her chief merit, how
ever seemed to consist in her being q
member of one of Boston's Oldest and
wealthiest families. Miss Hubbard, for
such was her name, accepted the love
and devotion of her agreeable teacher,
DuI ncr PROUD, Olu lalnlly IeJecteu lne
poor, humble professor with disdain
and forbade their daughter to ever meet
him or speak % him again. Professor
Bell, however. was not easily discour-
aged and boldly pressed his suit,
T enforced as he was by the
tender tears ard pining melancholy OF
the young lady who was dearly loved by
her parents. In the end, the consent OF
Paterfamilias was obtained, and the
rich, old merchant gave the young pro
lessor a lift, in pecuniary sort OF
way, SO that he was placed above the
necessity of teaching for living. The
great idea of his life was. however. UNI
developed and. aided by his father-in-
law. he soon after perfected his instru-
ment and launched it out upon the
world as the telephone Gardiner Green
Hubbard is a few millions richer by his
alliance with the poor, despised PROBES