The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-30

their phones down and . asks cea,rai for
. number. Three answers instead OF Gen.
trsI and can SAY what he or she pieaSes
10 and central Ii blamed BY for IL. This
has actually happened. but, fortunately,
very rarely.
'.of course. the ieE number Of people On
a line the less trouble. On our party line
business section. even with ten members
line. Wa seldom have trouble. In the
residence disiriess IL IL not 80 easy.
Probably Tire next greatest cause for
unjust complaint Is the impatient people
A down town will call up u at his Office
u Is busy and pays no attention to the
ring. The operator tries once, twice.
thrice and then says 10 A. b does not an
swsr.' A at ence gets angry and yelis
something like this over the phone. I
know u % there: left him not three min
utes ago land II was probably thirty in
stead OF three minutex). You can get him
II you try?'
Central answers. Hold the phone,
we'll try him again. and rings long and
loud u does not answer and central
tells A SO. and then A does war dance
and says things that causes the operator
to disconneet his phone. for our rules in
struct all operator To at once dtsconnect
phone over which any one is using i'm
proper. profane or abusive language. Tho
cisconnectiou OF tho phone prevents the
operator at central from hearing AS
abuse. but II does not prevent him from
pranciug around and calling the telephone
girls everything he can think of. while
sympathetic crowd appsauds his senti-
ments.
- JST then II comes In. ard A excit-
- edly says, I've been trying TO ring
you up for an hour fwhen the actual time
hal y mir .fkset md
man enough to own up that he heard the
ring. but was too busy or for some other
reason failed To answer II. only saya:
Why that's funny. I've been In my of
fee all the time
And then the telephone girls catch II,
and stands quietly by. Knowing that
every bit Of censure is undeserved. Ard
the poor girls take the blame
"of course, all men are not Ike that,
and women are worse than the men when
II comes 20 q ease such as have quoted.
when they dent want 20 answer n call:
but yon notice and you viii find n large
class OF kiekers as described.
Here's another class Of sktckers' A
PUSHES In 10 a telephone lie Is sure ne
knows tho number he wants. and shouts
at central. Main blank. blank, blank
and gets IL, Then tina conversation is
about as follows. Hello, tha. you Tom
.WhatF' We'll. who are you. anyhow
Then comes the storm, - -----. that
operator: they never get any,
thing right. Here ] wanted to catch my
friend quick and they switch fae on 10 the
wrnng number and then somebody suE-
gests that maybe the number OF his
friends telephone has been changed. aud
he grabs tho book. looks ar H. and then
,his IL about what follows Hello. GEN.
trail give me Red blank. blank, and I
would like to know why Won couldn't have
told me Sff thu first place that the num-
her 81 Smiths telephone had been chang
ed. seems to me you're getting worse and
versa
Dear man. so reasonable 10 think a
gsvi can answer an average of 1850 calls
In rine heara ana keep mt only the
names ard numbers OF a0a telephones
ard subscribers ~ her nead. bat all the
changes made day by day wes,-
''As said the women are as bad as and
sometimes worse thmn. the nen or course
they 10 nes as rule use had language,
vat they ffnd as mach faais snf are even