The sun., 1901-06-23
TIuE.SAyTNG APPLIANCES.
A visitor Impressed by the Sight Of New
York Bu,ines, Man at Work.

These things" said o man who comes 10
New York only occasionally, in speaking Of
vnrious time and labor-saving devices that he
finds in use here. ARE all so familiar TO you
that you think nothing about them; but they
impress me every time sec them.
"In one Office I 20 TO here a young man
who sits in an outer room sends In my name
TO the gentleman Iwant to see by telephone.
There is n telephone right on the desk az
which the young man sits and he just speaks
through II to ascertain II Mr.. So-and-So Is
I'm his room and TO inform him that there Ia
somebody in the reception room deslrirR
TO see him. thus saving time and permitting
the young man to remain risht where ne Vs.
ready to receive on the instant anybody else
that might come In. without a moment delay
have now seen the same thing done here
in a modern apartment hotel, The boy didh
take my card and go up in the elevator ana
go wandering about To come back sooner or
later and let me know whether the gentleman
I had occasion to call on was In or not but
he telephoned from the office to the apart
ment and learned in about a quarter ot
minute that he was in. and quarter OF
minute later was on the way up to where
he lived.
In his apartment this gentleman showed
m, the telephone apparatus at his END a
handsome movable receiver Standing on a
little bracket in his sleeping ROOM vthih
reach Of his bed II he wrnted to telephone
10 anybody. any wiere, before he got up
he could reach up and take down the re-
ceiver and talk 20 anybody, as he lay there
There WIS a long distance connection, SO
that he could spc1k not only to somebody
In the ONCE Of the hotel or in the city. but
he could call up Boston or Chicago. all without
getting out OF bed al all
"A friend OF mine in big wholesale estab-
lishment downtown has whole battery OF
time-saving things around him. The other
DIV when went in there I found him sitting
at his desk talking TO somebody on some
other floor through a spea tns tube when
he had got through talk ing he hook cd the end
of the tube in a fork and swung around to
sneak to somebody who had called to him
through a telephone which stood on his desk
well, I don't know about that, heard
him say T. this man. t,lking Just as though
they d been face to face. And then ! saw a
smile come over his features as he listened tn
| something from the other end. and then he
| said. half laughing as he spoke:
| ".Ye-es, suppose we might do that
and then in minute he laughed heartily
| over something the man at the other end OF
the wire said and | knew they were both
laughing and they could hear each other
! perfectly, hundred miles apart as they
| were, and | thought u myself for about the
} millionth time what wonderful, what a
/ simply wonderful thing, the telephone was
| Evidently my friend was a little pushed
| that day. or a little behind Ms schedule,
or something, for he didn't speak to me yet.
"Ue pressed down two pushbuttons in row
| pl,ced over toward the back OF the desk. and
| ,hen swung quarter more round facing now
n s,cnographer and typewriter and began
debating
| "'Anson Won Blink, ESQ., Paperopos,
| Wis Your esteemed favor Of the fourth
AT this instant a boy came up. apparently
| in answer to one Of the button calls. and my
| friend handed him something from the desk
| 70 carry TO somebody, keeping right on talk.
ing TO the stenogra pher all the time; but
| he had 10 stop n minute. when there came
IN. evidently In response to the second but
ton. n man with whom my friend talked for
| as much as two minutes; but before this man
had got his back turned tn go away my friend
was at it agnn with tho stcnographer as
| though he hadn't stopped nt Az
| st hu, In ase you should prefer the other
routc kindly advise Ms, and we will ship tha
wny.' md so on And pretty soon my friend
who came from my part Of the country some
| eighteen or twenty years ago TO New YORK
| 10 grow up with the town. swung back through
| tbe hnlf circle past the desk round TO th'
spe.king tube end again. and facing me-
| began 20 talk. ,-.., - .. L.
| the old town and | must sny TINT J never
! oct tired of oil these things around his desk
| Spraking tube. telephone, push buttons
| hnlf n dozen other contrivances OF one sort
| md another for all | know. Strnographcr
| always ready and a telegraph instrument
| click ing away over in one corner OF the room
| 50 that my friend needn't lose minute.
| time
| Portable chair and hold communication witt
| the whole establishment, and with All the
| world for that matt,r, without getting up
| vitho,l, 40 much a. lifting finger. Al NJ
| hns to do IL to ait there and keep cool and tak'
| il easy and do the thinking. and run things
| and my friend Is the sort of man who can az
| this thing without the slightest fret or worry
| who seems rather to enjoy II,
| And as | look at my friend there and SCI
! tho kind of tools he had 10 work with. and how
| he ha ndlcS them, and think that that's the wa,
| we do everything In this country, why ]
| the Stars and ripes has worked his horst
| neck and shoulders ahead Of the rest Of th'
bunch. and is gradually drawing more ant
| more ahead
rPnRETt'g pElCH FIT