The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-05

candlepower incandescent lamp Is five
million times as great as the electrical
energy in a telephone receiver at the
end of q thousand-mile line.
The French, however, of whom we
would expect quite different things, are
very backward in telephony. The SER
vice IN Paris has been so bad that sub
scribers have formed leagues to COM
pei a reformation of the telephone girl
and her employer. even when the em-
ployer Is the government The Paris
correspondents of London papers de-
clare that. though pretty we'll hard
ened to poor service by their expert
ences at home, even the slow and in
different operators of London are pref
cradle to the intractab1e and impertf-
nent young women who worry the Pa
risians who are paying a hundred
dollars a year for the privilege Of be-
ing Haunted by Them"
When other topics have been tempo
rarily exhausted their telephone SER
vice affords a. never-failing subject for
complaint to Londoners. They have
the Postoffice Department lines as well
as those of the National Company, and
are just beginning to appreciate that
perhaps the dual system is the cause OF
considerable of their trouble. Another
cause which observing Londoners are
pointing out to one another is that the
subscribers themselves have no idea of
how to use the telephone. One restrict
ing Influence is, of course, the dull
conservatism of many British business
men and officials" to use the words of
progressive and Disguised Briton.
Perhaps the most Americanized tele-
phone user In Great Britain Is King
Edward. The employment of DR.. Bells
invention always seems to strike him
as natural and proper. Not long ago a
party of tourists from ''the States"
appeared at Buckingham Palace armed
with letter from the Secretary of our
London Embassy and wanted to in
spect the royal residence. They were
allowed to go no further than the sta
bles, because the Lord Chamberlain.
who must issue their permit. was out
of town. Nobody knew where he could
be reached, but one of the party sug-
gested that the Lord Chamberlain's
permit might be dispensed with by OBJ
tanning the consent of the King him
self.
When the palace Official to whom this
proposition was made recovered from
| the collapse into which 1t threw him,
he solemnly assured the visitors that
this was impossible since His Majesty
was attending the races at Newmarket.
One OF the Americans, not in the least
"phased," inquired whether His Ma
testy could not be communicated with
by telephone. The official recovered
from this second shock enough to adj
nit that such thing might be possi-
BILE. and after good deal of palaver-
ing the young man in charge of the
palace switchword was persuaded to
risk it."
The Kings reply was almost imme-
| diate. If the Americans were properly
authenticated, they were, by His Ma
jesty's commands" to be allowed to go
over the whole palace without being
| subjected to irritating scurtiny.
Pope Plus. in so many ways one of
the most progressive of Europeans.
employs the telephone constantly. No
doubt 1t does much to relieve the So
clusion which must often be trying to
a man of his naturally virile activity of
| body and mind. When Cardinal Sarto,
| Patriarch of Venice, went to attend the
conclave in Rome, after Pope Leo's
| death. two years ago. he babe his sis
| tiers goodbye for three weeks. He was
| elected Pope within a fortnight, and
has never seen Venice since; but his
sisters. with whom he lived before he
| entered the Vatican, have moved their
| home to the Eternal City, taking a
| dwelling so near their brother that
every day he may come out upon a
| balcony that Is within sight of their
windows and greet them from a dis
| lance.
| The installation of a telephone in the
| Vatican Is characteristics of the "digni-
| fed modernity'' of His Holiness. Not
| only does he employ 1t in the direction
| of the multitude of vast interests in
his charge, but he utilizes 1t largely in
| his more personal life, so to speak.
] with his sisters over the wire, and
4 many times his greetings have been
/ conveyed to more distant friends and
| former parishloners in the same way.