The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-05-09

Ss3 John Wesley became frantic.
.Mr. Kinds! Mr. Hlnds!"" he shout
ed. Hlnds Is the House parliament
tartan, who stands all day at the
Speakers desk. Although he furnisil-
es the brains that keeps the House
going along the proper Legislative
groove, this was the first time, a mem
ber Ind ever addressed him from the
floor. t1@
Smith. J. r. Linn. Albert J. Kerne, Geo.
r. Barnes, Claud H. Layman, w. s.
Mayors. Lloyd Beeghley. B. D. Doug
las, William Eliot. Walter Corbin. J.
N. Jacobs. "A. Howard Fleming. Rev.
H. G. stoetzer. John j. Conniff.
Several OF the independent tele-
phone companies have made arrange.
ments with the Bell Telephone Com
pany to have free exchange where.
by 1 800 subscribers In rural districts
can be reached without any additional
expense also persons living In the
FaIrmont, Clarksburg;, and Grafton
districts ofiithe Bell Telephone Com
pany can be reached by people in the
country without any additional cost.
The Independent companies that have
made this arrangement are: The
Bridgeport Telephone Company, The
Pruntytown Telephone Company, The
shinnston Telephone Company and
The sardis Telephone Company.
The plan effected by the companies
will add much to the convenience to
the cities and the sur rounding country
and people will be glad to learn that
better means Of; communication have
been established
Mr.. A. c. Lindemuth, president of
the International Independent Tele-
phone Association on Thursday night
made the following address before the
conventions: a
Demand for Telephone communica.
tion.
It Is 'peculiarty OF the human
mind to run largely in parallels. due
no doubt to the similarity of the
wants. desires and aspirations of the
people under like conditions. This IS
even true in peoples widely separat-
ed in space but contemporancn,,s in
time. These wants. desires and as.
pirations may have no outward express
sion-they may simply be felt. Re-
spending to them inventive genius be-
comes active and we frequently have
the singular phenomina OF the fruits
OF that genius rfpenIng historically
ut the same time. Hence we often
see patents for the same, thing ap-
| piled for on the same day or within
q comparatively few.;days apart by In
ventors remote from each other and
without knowledge on the part of eth.
er as 10 the efforts of the other. Such
was the case OF the original telephone
patents.
! After the railroad which revolutions
lied old methods of travel and made
transportation speedy. came the de-
sire to annihilate space altogether.
Civilization ever discomfort. having en-.
joyed for time this new and rapI'l
method OF bringing peoples together
for the transaction of business and
social intercourse, wanted n method
for business and social lntercommuni.
cation without taking the time or sub.
mittinG to the Inconvenience OF travel.
Hence came the telegraph and tele.
phone. The telegraph though a won.
derful invention. was only partial
realization OF the want. And 1t Is n
standing shame to the two great tele.
graph companies that after more than
so years use. SO little Improvement
in the art Of telegraphy has been
made and that the system remains
almost as crude today ns when the
old Morse method was first adopted
: With the advent OF the telephone how
: ever. the great want was realized.
! The history OF the telephone reads
; like a romance. The origin OF the
: telephone. the circumstances OF It's in
F.. vention md conflict OF the patents
the organization and power of th5
. great Bell telephone monopoly which
for seventeen years. entrenched be
, hind and protected by its patents
farmed out the telephone business o.
: the United States to numerous sub
: servient COMPANIES and planted It.
: powerful influence into the judicial
Z. executive and legislative depart
!, ments Of the States and the federn
!. government: the splendid legal bat
:. ties waged by the National Independ
! ent Telephone Association! a against tn,
!. attempted fraudulent extension OF til,
!. patents and the further perpetuatiol
'.sof y the E;mlonopo and the signal syic