Arizona republican., 1891-10-21
LONDON TO NEW YORK.
The Joke Played on an American
 Photographer in England.

This is 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 SC 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 not, is a telephone, which stands in the lower hall for the use of the members.
 When a London club attains the lux ury of 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, Mir. Pyrogellic II. Kinone, and as have brought the mat ter to the attention of the committee, and as they have done nothing to pun ish Mir Kinone, I think it only right to make the whole thing public. do not think that telephone is put in a club hall for deceiving an innocent New Yorker.
 Pyro, as we call him for short, is a 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 year or so ago and the Camera club of New York treated him very nicely indeed. It seemed, however, that Mir. Hiram Waddell, of New York, played some sort of joke on Kinone, sell of some kind, and so Kinone swore to be even with him. Not long ago he met Waddell on the Strand and took him up to the club, where they had long talk over New York matters in general, and he in vited Waddell to lunch with him at the club the next day at certain hour. Mir. Kinone asked about all the pho tographic 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 ms being over this summer.
 Waddell 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 could get over to London thlS summer, out cOuldnt |.
 Shortly after this conversation Pyro was down at the Hotel Metropole, when who should he run against but John l.. Vain.
 "Bless my soul" he said; "London is full of Americans. l was just talk ing about you yesterday. I met Wad- dell on the Strand and took him up to the club, and l was asking If there was any chance of you coming over, and he said there wasn't; that you were goin out west"
 ''Oh," said Vain jauntily, "I fixed that out west business all right and I've come over to syndicate it if I can. Just got in to-day. Where's Waddell staying, do you know?"
 'He is staying down at the Royal" answered Pyro.
 "Well, I must call in and see him. saw him just before he sailed"
 ''So 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. Couldnt you Joln uS?
 ''I 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 to-morrow?"
 Certainly"
 "Well, I'll call you up and turn you on to Waddell, 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 will be good story to tell the boys when you get back"
 "T'll do it." said Vain, heartily, and he did.
 Kinone was to meet Waddell at Lows exchange, and they walked together to the club.
 five just been over telephoning to Paris, said Kinone. Have you seen about the Paris telep hone?"
 "Oh, yes, I read about it. Still, we do longer distance telephoning than that in America, you know"
 "Ah, yes! but this Paris line, you understand, goes under the channel" "Well, don't see that that matters much, does it? believe that we tele- phone from New York to Chicago sometimes"
 "Yes, presume you do. Still, of course, that's all nothing to the At lantic telephone from here to New York"
 Telephone? Cable, you mean" "No, mean telephone"
 "Thunder! l never heard of tele- phone under the ocean,"
 "Oh, you're behind the age. You've been out of America for week. You are not up to the latest snap in elec- tricity. Didn't you hear anything of Edison's new telephone before you left America?"
 "Ohl Edison's new telephone is an old thing, but never heard of any at- '"pt to telephone across the At
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