The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-18
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 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 a telephone it at once takes rank
among the leading institutions of the
kind in the metropolis.
This story i the narrative of the
fraudulent use OF that telephone b, one
of the members, Mr. Pyrogcllic H.
Kinone, and as have brought the mat
ter to the attention of the committee.
and as they have done nothing 10 pun
ish Mr.. Kinone, | think it only right TO
make the whole thing public. ] do not
think that a 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 a year or so ago and
the Camera club of New York treated
him very nicely indeed. 1t seemed,
however, that Mr.. Hiram Waddell. of
New York, played some sort of "a joke
on Kinone, a 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 a long talk over New
York matters in general. and he in
vited WaddcIl 10 lunch with him at the
club the next day at a certain hour.
Mr. hinone asked about all the pho
tographic boys in New York, and among
others of John l.. Vain. Py-o l'ad liked
Vain very mucn and ne asked Waddell
if there was any chance of his being
over this summer.
Waddeu 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
this summer, but coaldn't-
Shortly after this conversation Pyro
was down at the Hotel Metropolc, when
who should he run against but John l..
Vain
BLESS my soulr' he said; London
is full of Americans. I was just talk
ing about you yesterday. ! met Wad-
dell on the Strand and took him mp to
the club, and / 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. II fixed
that ont west business all right and
I've come over to syndic1te it if ! can.
Just got in to-day. Where's Waddcll
staying, do you know
ale is staying Gown at the Royal"
answered Pyro.
We'll, / must call in and see him. l
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 a
lunch at the Camera club to- morrow.
Couldn't You join us?'
Il will be most happy said Vain.
We'll, 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"
''Weil, I'll call You up and turn yor
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. /
will be good story to tell the boy
when you get back"
III do it," said Vain, heartily, an
he did.
Kinone was to meet Waddell at Low
exchange, and they walked together
the club.
1--WE just been over telephoning
Paris" said Kinone. Have you see.
about the Paris telep hone?''
''Oh, yes, / read about IL. Still. w
do longer distance telephoning thar
that in America, you know"
''Ah, yes. but this Paris line, yol
understand, goes under the channel"
''NNell, ! don't see that that matter
much, does it? | believe that we tele
phone from New York To Chicago
sometimes
course, that's all nothing to the At
lantic telephone from here to New
York"
Telephone? Cable, you mean"
''No, | mean telephone" "
Thunder, / never heard of tele-
phone under the ocean"
''Oh, you're behind the age. You've
been out of America for a 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
''Oh! Edison's new telephone is an
old thing, but i never heard of any at.
tempt to telephone across the AT
lantic."
Attempt, Great heavens, You ar,
not SO far behind the Lighthouse as al
that, are you, Waddell? Why. bless
me, you can ring up New York from
any telephone in the city,"
oh you can't expect me TO believs
that, said WaddelL
''Believe it or not, as you like. sup
pose ii seeing Is bci.eviag, hearing i