The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-02
SOME OBSTACLES TO PHONE
COMPETITION.

cific States Telephone Company While
 the citizens and business people gen.
 erally are delighted with the idea of
 competition, and would willingly dc anything to down the monopoly" they
 are fearful to a degree of encouraging a
 new company, as it might necessitate
 them subscribing to two companies in
 order to have all their friends and cus-
 toners on their line
 When Abram Goldenstein, who runs a grocery store in Los Angeles, was ap- preached by solicitor for the new company and asked to sign a contract to have new telephone put in, he said:
 Why I shout do ut yes? Why I shout git me anudder telephone"
 The solicitor told him that the new company was prepared to supply ser vice much cheaper than the rates now charged for telephones.
 T shoult do ut to safe money maybe yes?" said Goldenstein with dangerous sweetness.
 The solicitor told him that he had just hit the idea exactly.
 Whereupon Goldenstein gnashed his teeth. "Yes, I safe me moneys. Yes, that is preety goot way for to safe me moneys. If I haf von telephone vich costs too mooch money, den I shout git | two telephones and make sheepness, yes?"
 The solicitor ventured to suggest that he needn't have but one telephone l that, of course, the new one. ! Yes, dat is a pretty goot smartness, said Gldenstein witheringly. You are a preety smart young man, yes? shout haf von telephone, yes? Den Jacobson or some odder grocer haf two telephone unt I shout as besser haf no telephone at all. Yes? Maybe ot iss some feller want some groceries unt he haf in his house der olt telephone unt he cand cont down to der store cause he is sick Den vat you spose he do, yes? He telephones to Jacobson, who has two telephones unt if Jacobson vonce gifts him init his grip in, don see um no more. Dat iss de ent of my customer, because Jacobson haf a coople of telephones unt don't. Dot is der sheepness, yes?
 1T tell vat you do," added Goldenstein. You put de people vat don pay der pills on der new telephone altogether, unt I pay you for telephone, but I don haf one in der shop. No, you bettcha nit
 The solicitor suggested that it would be fine idea even to have both tele- phones, for there would not be so much chance then of the line being busy. He said telephone rates would be so much lower that two telephones could be put in for what one costs now
 Dat voult pc gread, yes" said Gold enstein, contemptuously. "Yes, dat would be pretty goot. Maybe I am in my store, and I hear der telephone bell ring himself, unt den I shoomp preety qvick, unt say Hello, hello, hello!' unt der aind no answer. Int I ring cop der chief sassy girl, and she say she don know nottings aloud it, unt she didn't ring der pell. Den I know vat iss der trouble nit I been hearing init der wrong telephone. I choomp preety quick to der odder telephone, den, bud der telephone is stopped. unt it is all rung oud and de people is mat unt may pc gone to Jacobson to drade Yes; unt l maybe l got me customer No. 222 one | of dem clups where dey play penuchle | unt drink peer, unt I haf got me to | telephone to dem. Unt on de odder tee- UIlOilG l Hdl SOl ne OuUPT VIGIL IS te | president of de temperance society, un | har noomper Is main 222 on der odder telephone How you tink he voult | sound if I get me twisted some dey | and ring oop de wrong 222 unt tell de temperance vomans dat can't sent cop l der bottle beer til de poy geds pack?
 Hoy you tink that vas, yes? I tink dey poth get mad preety qvick unt go | to Jacobson to drade.
 Maybe I like to drop a nickel in der slot unt find it oud dat haf de wrong telephone got, yes?
 When you der new telephone got, you will nod ask like dis. Is dis main 222?' but you will haf to say is de Sunset | telephone, ds?'
 "Maype I come into my store some day unt flint q note from de poy to say dat I vas to call cop No. 223, unt de man wish to say something's to me aloud a pill. Unt maype it iss dat on von off der 229s I haf me a man vich is owing me big pill, unt on de odder 223 is der wholesale house vich I am owing a pig pill. Unt if 1t der wrong 223 don't vawnt to ring um oop yes?
 How I shoult know which it is, yes?
 "Maype I like to know if Chones haf a telephone. Int vent der new tele- phone coomes in I haf me got to look through two books to find out.
 "TTnt. say, where I got me to put um. yes? Maype rent me a store for to take oop all de room init telephone poxes yes?
 ''Unt dat makes der city look pretty nice. yes? When der new telephones ged der streets all cobwebbed cop.
 'I don't vawnt me no new telephones not if you giffer me ut as sheeper as I tink it iss preety good l,nt uI l