Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-07-22
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The Telephone as an Aid to Bust
ness.
OF Great BENEFIT IN Cases whore Tim, i.
OF First Importance-Tho Long,
Distance ''Phone" Coming
In Great FnVoR. ,-r.v

In Great Favor. fgr.v
A surprising feature of long-diatancc
telephony is the remarkable amount of
business that can be crowded into n
very short conversation. Tho fact that
tho communication obtained Is IN actual
conversation ut first hand between
tho persons most directly Interested in
thc'mattcr under discussion is what nc-
cording to the Electrical Engineer, rem
dcrs the telephone so far superior to
the telegraph fol-. very. many purposes.
Question and answer arc exchanged i'm
mediatcly without the annoying delays
incident to telegruphic dispatches.
Propositions can be made AID comment
Ell On, modified or rejected in manner
quite impossible by telegraph; IL fact,
all the advantages Of n personal inter
vicw arc obtained without the c>.Dendi-
turc of time and trouble involved in Il
Journey. Numerous instances could be
given of the number of business Qucs-
tons that can be di9posc;lof in single
talk over the wires within the mini
mum time of five minutes. Probably
the best on record is that where two
business mon, one in 4Ncw York and one
in Boston, discussed and settled four en-
half.
Two of the matters dealt with rim
volvcl l@r:gc sums Of money, but the
men Were able to lay their heads to-
gcthcr, EGrrativcly speaking, SO well,
although literally they we're SO far apart.
that it tool; then but 4 few seconds in
each ca3c to Lc~i,!c ca what should be
done. 1t can readily be imagined
4
required to Go the same amount of
business, leaving entirely aide the
question CT t.i.2c, which is SO often
of the first Importance. Every day
cases occur whore the lcnG-dis-
tancc telephone cnablcs business to
be done that the telegraph en-
not GiG, and where the. only. alter1:a-
tiVc would DC I. lcng and c:iDcnciTc
Journey. For instance, not long ago y
Ecw York nun was notified that his
draft o.. 4 hc:icc l. = tJU'n fer up in the
interior OF tic SKATE lad been allowed
to go to protest, and il order TO protect
his interests l!c va; ca tho point Of un-
dcrtalzi2G q j;u-ccy thai would have
kept him Gw2y IA lis Office FL, three
days, when - Ici"-;l ;.tviacd Linn TO tclc-
phone 10 tic bar! which held his draft
formed Ei!l Ct tho SKATE of affairs and
recommended IL lawyer IN tic town to
take Tie jyD i'll hand. He had an inter
Wv by tolcph - With the lawyer and
I've him iilGtrrctinl::i to proceed, and
&c S;iIa2 ;.ftcrncC2 &c lawyer rCpurtcd
tiut he hal g1U cSs:t an attachment and
that TIC Craft vrouid be fully covered
The time spent by TIC New YCrl: man
,I'
and thu total cYpCEGc was fer three con-
vcrsatiors, one with the bank and two
with TIC lawyer. as nr'rir6t IN cbSencc
1r~n t@Wn Of TWO CT three days and
travelling expenses, amounting to forty
CT fifty dollars. The actual saving of
time and money is byno means the only
Recommendation in fever Of long-tli3-
tanrc telephone commune ati2n.
Often II renders possible the transac-
ticn Ct business Which could be done in
no ot!:cr way, and many time q five
E1lnNfcs' conversation rays for itself a
thoujaluioid. To manufacturers hay
ing tIcir lead Offices in New York.
branciCG III other cities and towns and
factories somewhere In the country, tic
scrVicc LIS E2comc practically irdis-
pHa5lb:3; tA9 periodical daily talks be-
tween TIC chief of tho firm and nnr . ger
OK &c icctcry CT branch Office place all
tIrii' nZI@iEp 60 thoroughly in touch
Ulth ca>h ether that no notwithstanding
concern who has once adopted the scrv-
il to rs needs would be without IL
f.r single day were tho ccCt twice
WAT II. Bllkers, brokers' a1d law
ycIa form another largo cla@8 nf pat,
ro12' b15 it was ara31y tho naaufaatuv-
crD that tho long-distancc telephone
}r1t caught on" and they have 8tcud-
1s3tly nvailcd themselves of it from tho
'.:.lo OF it's establishment as q CONNER
ti&l means of communication rs1-'
TERENCE V. PowDERLY, the head Of
TIC knights Of Labor, says in tho last