The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-14
LONDON TO NEW YORK.
The Joke Played on an American
Photographer in England.
This is A story of the Camera club.

The Camera club in London, as every
body may not know, has now fine new
premises near Charing Cross, ever so
many stories high, of red brick outside
and filled with dark rooms and all sorts
of luXuries inside Among other things
which the new building has which the
old had rot, is telephone, which stands
in the lower hall for the use of the
members.
When London club attains the lux
ury of Il telephone it at once takes rank
among the leading institutions of the
kind in the metropolis.
This story is the narrative of the
fraudulent use of that telephone by one
of the members, Mr.. Pyrogcllic II.
Kinonc. and as have brought the mat
ter to the attention of the committee,
and as they have done nothing to pun
ish Mr.. kinonc, think it only right to
make the whole thing public. I do not
think that telc phone is put i'll club
hall for deceiving an innocent New
Yorker.
Pyro, as we call him for short, is
very popular member of the Camera
club. Perhaps that is why they do not
deal with him as he deserves. He was
over in America n year or so ago and
the Camera club of New York treated
him very nicely indeed. 1t seemed,
however, that Mr.. Hiram Waddcll, of
New York, played some sort of joke
on Kinonc, a sell of some kind, and so
Kinone sworc to be even with him.
Not long ago he met Waddcll on the
Strand and took him up to the club,
where they had Il long talk over New
York matters in general, and he in
vited Waddcll to lunch with him at the
club the next day at certain hour.
Mr. Kinone asked about all the pho
geographic boys in New York, and among
others of John l.. Vain. Pyro had liked
Vain very much and he asked Waddell
if there was any chance of his being
over this summer.
Waddcll said there wasn't the Slight
est. John V. was interested in some
big thing out west; he had seen him
just before sailing and Vain had said
he wished he couldsget over to London
this sunmcr but couldn't
Shortly after THIS conversation Pyro
was down at the Hotel Mctropole. whom
who should he run against but John l..
Vain.
"Bicss my SOUL he said; "LondOn
is full of Americans. l was just talk
ing about you yesterday. | met Wad
dell on the Strand and took him up to
the club, and | was asking If there was
any chance of you coming over, and he
said there wasn't; that you were going
out west"
oh" said Vain jauntily, Il fixed
that out west business all right and
I've come over to syndicate it if | can.
Just got in to-day. Where's Waddcll
staying, do you know?"
''IIe is staying down at the Royal,r
answered Pyro.
"Well, l must call in and see him.
saw him just before he sailed"
$50 he said. Look here, Vain,
want to fix up sell on Waddell. You
remember the one he got off on me in
New York. We are gong to have
lunch at the Camera club to- morrow,
Couldn't you join uS?''
81 will be most happy" said Vain.
"Well, then, I'll get him up there
about one o'clock Can you be at the
telephone here at the Metropole at one
o'clock tomorrow"
Certainly"
We'll III call you up and turn you
on to Waddcll, and make him believe
we have got telephone line from here
to New York. Do you understand?
You think over it and fill him up. It
l., +n1l 1,o
when You get back"
''Tll do it," said Vain, heartily, and
he did.
Kinone was to meet Waddell at Lows
exchange and they walked together to
the club.
I've just been over telcphoning to
Paris" said Kinone. 'llave you seen
about the Paris telep hOne?'
"Oh, yes, l read about it. Still, we
do longer distance telcphoning than
that in America, you know"
"Ah, yes! but this Paris line, you
understand, goes under the channel
"Well, | don't sec that that matters
much, does it? l believe that we tele-
phone from New York to Chicago
sometimes"
YES, l presume you do. Still, OF
course, that's all nothing to the At
lantic telephone from here to New
York"
Telephone? Gable, you mean"
mo, | mean telephone.
'Thunder / never heard of telc-
phone under the ocean"
ooh, you're behind the age. You've
been out of America for a week. You
are not up to the latest snap in cleo
tricity. Didn't you hear anything OF
Edison's new telephone before you left
American"
"Oh! EdisDn's new telephone is an
old thing, but never heard OF any at