The St. Johns herald., 1888-01-12
A VALIANT Fi5hi.
How Rochesfrr, =. Y-. wrestled With
 the Telephone and Won!

Rochester, \. Y., IS tiie only city III the United >tates w.iich do's hot gener- eral use the Bell telephone!
 On the 10th of November, fS36, about seven hundred subscribers hung up thelr 'phones, and they have been hung up since
 It is the most noteworthy fight with corporation ever known.
 The cause Of 1t was the attempt Ot the local Bell company (whose officers all lived in another city ). to exact q rate per message from tine subscribers, instead of '' flat rate' Th4 people resisted It, the courts sustained the position that the license was rcvOcahle at will, the Com mon Council revoked it. The company ignored this action, and. without perlnls. sion. erected poles in tbe streets an'b strung additional wires; but the courts held that this was unlawful.
 According to the message rate, house like II. II. Warner & Co.,, proprletorS of Warmers safe cure. who were among til2 heaviest patrons, would have To pay something like Sl ,000 a year for the same telephone service as before. For city Of 125, 900 people, Rochester has made a good many sensations. sam Patch and his deadly leap, the Fox sisters spiritual rappings, Stewards IT. repressibie conflict" speech, Susan b. Anthony's attempt to vote, tine cometary discoveries of Dr. Swift, Of Warner Ob- servatory, have each made the city the ''taIk of the world;" she leads in the manufacture of proprietary medicine, and her immense nursery. shoe and clothing interests puts her III the front rank. The origin of one of her greatest industries Is interesting: About ten years ago one of her foremost citizens was stricken down in the very height of successful business career, with what | his doctors said was an incurable disease. They gave him up to die. He then used what is now known as Warmers safe cure, and since then has developed as the worlds great champion of the peo
 ple against the assumed monopoly of physicians over the treatment of dis ase
 His fight, too, has been determined one, and as successful as determined. | To-day he IS at the head of the largest proprietary medicine business in the world, having branch houses and labor atories in London, England; Toronto, Canada; Melbourne, Victoria; Sydney, NewNSouth Wales; Frankfort. Germany i; Prague, Austria; RangoOn, Burmah. ] Many foreign governments will nos permit the manufacture and S2le of pro l prietary medicines of any name or nature until their fcrmulp, value and harmless
 ness are by them established, after tEe
 most searching scientific inquiries. in every case Warmers safe cure has passed examination with the highest satisfaction 10 the government chemists and ana | lvsts, and the sought-ior permission has 1 been granted, which no other American
 has before securel.
 TE:is confirms the magnificent repu.a- tion given it by leading physicians, min | isters, senators, congressman, lawrer1
 and ladies f the world. Its secret Of
 success,'' says the leading physician a
 Clifton Springs, x. I., sanitarium,. ' ls
 the simplicity Of it's compounds and the
 proportions in which they are com | pounded.
 |" How do the people get on?' The universal verdict is: " We don't miss the phone, except to our profit !'
 There has been practically no break in
 the united opposition begun last Novem- Der.
 The American is getting to be quite a.
 tenacious of his personal rights as against
 vonspiring monopolies as is the typical
 Englishman, and this Roe! ester tele-
 phone episode is q noteworthy illusrd- 1 ton of the fact.