Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-26
WEALTH IN TELEPHONES.


ASp LOST ~ uiEN.
Very few pcrscns realize how many
men nave been hcggafci ns well az On.
richci by the telephone. Inventors
who have cudgeled their brains aud
wasted their time over 10 arr innumvr.
able.
A good many Telephone companies
have been formed, some OF them tack.
ed by plenty 81 money, like the Draw
baugb; some Of them unqucstionnbly
for the purpOsc OF compelling the Bcil
Company 10 buy or compromise.
He'll, himself, who Il not n ilnanclor,
would probably have gone the way VI
all poor inventors had he not happen.
ed 10 marry the daughter OF one OF the
most Hkillul nnanciuf. In the country,
and an expert In tclrgripniC stock aud
management, Mr.. Gnuinct Hubbard.
Hut nobody realize better than Alr.
Hell that his telephone Is not yet per.
icrtod. lar from II. u doe, not al
ways work satisfactorily, aud, ~
general thing, for long distances Is
practically WORTHLESS NJ yet. Other
companies doubtless have improve
ments, great ones, but these have been
patented, although The patents avail
little, because all these telephones
make use Of the electric current Tor
the transmission Of the voice.
There has been Of late uuqucsliOn.
ably something VI "a reaction ON the
part VI the public, ESPECIALLY In New
England, from the high favor In which
the telephone was held. This has been
partly duc TO the charges, partly 20
iueiiicicnoy and partly because many
customer have como ~ regard these
instruments Us more oil bother Than a
benefit.
Ihcrc prevails AN Impression among
capitalists who have given some alton.
ton 10 money possibilities In tcle.
phones, that tho Bell people do not
"a poct always 10 defend their bonanza,
10 W. To keep u monopoly. Such
car italists profess 10 think that the
shrcwd inancicfs OF the Bell Company
are aware that tolephuning win he
declared some day n free as Telegraph
lug, and that all that any company can
do will be TO protect Its instrument by
patent Whether this ~ correct
opinion OF not, II prevails, and 10 II II
largely due the Willingness Of capital.
istH 10 look with favor upon any tclc-
phone scheme. Inventors now have
no difficulty In getting moEuycl men
10 examine aud look Into uieif tcle.
phone Inventions, aud there ars some
very superior ONES IN the market.
a sergeant In the United States
slgnai Corps Invented n field tclc-
phone, n marvel Of simplicity az well
~ ingenuity, an instrument 10 simple
and yet 10 perfect that II could be ex.
posed Tor weeks ~ the weather In a
Held or lie burird.in an ash heap aud
not be Injured. The Signal office made
use Of these instruments daily with
perfect satisfaction.
a Washington stove dealer Invented
n house telephone, simple little con.
trivancc, making usu OF gus and water
pipes Instead OF wlgrs, attached 10 which
In each room was u transmiltcr aud 10.
cciver.
The simplest telephone In existence,
anu one TINT VIII probably be- left un.
disturbed by the great corporation, Ia
Ia operation In Fayetteville, y. G.. 1t
IL an old Telegraph wire, each end
fastened intO a thin sheet Of wood, anu
lis total distance l. about qualter " "a
mile, extending from the MOTEL oiiloe
10 the livery stable Yet, rudr ~ II Is,
II serves lie purpose admiralty, car
rying the voice over the wire MA per.
feet clearncss, though on- has 10 use
some considerable lung power.
There are "a number OF men who for
the past four OF live years have felt
very much like asl,lng somebody to
Kick them. These ara mrn who had u
great fortune at hand and turned their
back on II because they did not know
II. Gov. Jewell, 0f Connecticut, two
or three years before his death, became
enthusiastic over the telephone. lie
caught the fever In Boston, where the
telephone lint asserted itself. lie dc.
sired 10 form local company that
would control the State, but he went
begging, nobody knew anything ab0u.
the telephone. Nobody had any faith
In Il. At last Gov. Jewell found three
men who were willing 10 80 Ia with
him. One was young lawyer, Nor.
ris II. Tyler, who had been the ex-
ecutivo secretary Of Gov. Blgolow.
Another was n shrewd business man
named IA. T.. Frost, and there was "a
thirl. Jewell died Just M he was be-
ginning to see the splendid returns his
company was getting, but under Tyler
aud Frost thu little company had de-
vel0ped into the southern Now Eng.
land Telephone Company, which con.
trolls two-thlrds Of the business In New
England out Of B0itOn, the Washing.
ton and Baltimore companies, aud
some others.--M fRecorder.