Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-10
ITS JUST so
lr Sentiment on Short
Iines of the Telephone
= Service.
sfAlNS ALL ALLEGATIONS
Some Striking Instances of Stupid e;
actions of Company's Reg
ulations.

III words OF concentration tnat
today to The Argus, YER
ball by letter, and even over the
wirt of the Central Union Telephone
CON ny, of the discussion of the short
congs of the telephone service i'll
Rodsland appearing in The Argus of
lasNening, bear evidence of the eX-
reno which popular sentiment was
Relied.
herous specific instances have
becelated to The Argus of the
nful neglect on the part of the
cony 10 fulfill it's obligations as
pu service corporation. Many in
Gus have been made as to whether
Cr the Central Unions Rock ISL
anant is in reality up to date and
suently equipped to handle the bus
nso many have been the instances
Win the service has failed abso-
= Evidences of Failure.
Z physician tells of having been
'cal three times from the breakfast
ably the ringing of the bell on the
Gel Union phone in his residence
ant being told each time by cen
trahat she did not call him, and
Thef being informed by a patient
1atne same day that he had called
linree times by phone that morn
ing his home and gained no re-
spO The outcome of all of which
vast the man in search of his fam
l'y stefan called another doctor.
Asiness man recently received Il
elem at his home shortly after noon
ALI him to Chicago at once. His
Isbught of course was the time of
jraiHparture. His telephone direC-
'1ral been mislaid, and calling cen
-rala informed her hurriedly of his
-relnent and haste, and asked that
ie 4 nnected at once with the Rock
JslaIj ity ticket office. After an in
aTjhat seemed to him an hour he
was lated with information?
"GI me the Rock Island city ticket
officd quickly as possible" said the
caller
THUNDER is West 1913" came the
answeand then, "click," the connec-
I ion ' off.
Thean reSliZing that time was fly
ing enavored desperately to get cen
raj" Tx, and by the time number"
came er the wire he had forgotten
f. Helead t, be given the Rock ISL
md tiet ofIie, but in vain. 'infor-
nation was gain switched in, and
after h,had ben given the number a
second me, ad had been obliged TO
20 thTogh thecltire routine of ring
ing "cerral' beb-an operation which
by his oatch cnumed eight minutes
from lifetime 8sarted-and he asked
for West 423, hwas told "the line is
busy now"
Missj His Train.
In sheer deSjr the citizen, as he
relates il his lily to The Argus, hur
Iiedly packed hi grip, grabbed his hat
md made sh for the depot
He was fortulte in catching q
strcet car thout delay, but
arrived at the ition just in time tt
sec the rear EN- bf the l o'clock lin
ted slipping a5 for Chicago. The
citizen took ouhis watch. Forty min
1Ites before he al attempted to learr
through the accommodating telephone
company by camunicatiOn with thu
Rock Islands fket office, the tim,
2 hat train left. Fad he started in thu
first place within depending upon thu
telephone. he Gould have made tn
train with easo4And as there was no
another train lat would get him int
Chicago early at evening, he did no
20. The SENSES and arbitrary rOu
tine of the Cnral Union Telephon
company provdt in the end not only
great inconveiace, but absolutely eX
pensive to th3business man, accord
ing to the storshe tells The Argus.
No one decrss the number system il
The use of the t9phone, nor is there an
panaro1 6cpocfiOu IN fala aynpptio