The herald., 1898-11-30
DOWN THE LINE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
There is something needed in the teie-
phone Office; it may be more girls, or better

phone Office; it may be more girls, or better
tempered girls, or few
A Quarrel er telephones, but
With Central whstever the remedy
needed is, it should
be applied rapidly, or we will all become
sour tempered. have had a number OF ex
periences with the young ladies' tempers OF
late, though / make it point to talk at
least-no matter what may think-in the
most punctiliously polite terms to them
The reason is obvious; they are at the p"s'-
ness end of the wire, and if they choose can
simply shut you off from the world inoeh-
nitely. !, on the other evening, wanted 20
talk to Percy Fennimore at the burpanK'
took down the receiver, but no answering
bell came;. jiggled the catch In vain' ana
there l stood for fully five minutes before
Central spoke and said: Here's party
who wishes to speak to YOU. rephe0 that
they would have to wait. that 1 was IN
hurry and had been kept waiting for long
time. "Well, you'll have to talk to them
anyway" came back the tart response.
do not like to be bulhed into doing anything,
even by pretty telephone girl, and am
sure this was one of that kind, for her voice
sounded 50. Accordingly l replied very
positively that declined to talk to anyone
except Main 1910. WELL you can't do II
anyway; the lines out of ORDER chirruped
the dulcet voice again. | accused the girl
of giving me the throw down and asserted
that | knew positively that the line was
all right. And then suddenly the chief
operator Clipped in, having been switched
over to her. "What do you want!' she
asked Main 1870" | answered. You
can't talk there for the lines out OF order,
she said l denied the accuracy OF her
statement and she came back with the re-
mark that was not polite. admitted the
charge, but added that l was becoming
too weary to observe all the niceties of eti-
ouettte with her, and insisted on my right
to talk to Main 1910. 'Iou don't believe
me!" she asked again when she replied that
the line was broken and SO could not give
me the number. | came back with the
frank admission that not only did not be-
lieve her, but knew she was not telling the
truth. and in moment l knew | had won
the contest, for l heard the ringing UP, and
then came Fennimore's voice over the wire
as clear as bell. When l got through l
found that had been something over twen-
ty minutes trying to get phone to send
message that took less than ten seconds.
And all because an evidently otherwise
charming young woman had become cranky
because she could not have her own way,
when it was wrong way. 1t is barely pos
sible that the young women have too much
to do; in fact have been told they each
have a hundred phones to look after, when
the most they should have is fifty, but no
good reason can be given for inflictng such
experiences as the one described above on
patrons of the company.
o o O
That private secretary whom Governor
elect Gage has secured in the person of
W. l. Foley isIcertain-
A Model ly model of the dis
Secretary Greet type of man.
He simply will not
know anything for anyone, unless he knows
absolutely that there can be no harm in
possessing the knowledge. He knows the
value to a man in his position of never leak
ing nforma tion and he is double -calked and
copper riveted 1t is a case OF where ig-
norance is bliss 'tis Foley to be wise"
O o O
| Treasurer Mansfield of the San Diego
opera house, lately of the Burbank of this
city, is here on trip
Convalescent for rest. San Diego
San Diegan is so quiet that il
made him very tired
He is hard at work on an important addi-
ton to dramatic literature entitled "The
Decadence of the Drama, Together with
Plan for its Revivifying and Uplifting"
When he arrived here he got shaved and
had his shoes blached, and very soon did not
look particularly different from any other
resident. To look at him you would never
know where he had been. He has won
derful recuperative powers, such as go with
his admittedly high talent in dramatic af-
fairs and winning personality.
Have you seen the new ones that Billy
Dunn wears? They are great, so great as
to cause the most de-
New Mode vouring feeling of
in Pants envy on the part of
many of his friends,
such as Parker, Garrett and Barnum, while
even Hood had spasm Of blastophera when
he first saw them. They are in checks,
such sudden checks that they take your
breath away when you first see them. Billy
wears them in the proper form, the bottoms
turned up, and the creases exact mathe-
matically. He says they were made in
New York, but an unfeeling friend has
given away the fact that Pasadena tailor
built them THE GOSSIPER.
One Woman's Way
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