The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-17
WITH HELLO men.
Annual Banquet viii Be Held
Tonight.
Good Things to Eat and Good
Talk Promised.
FOR NEW TOLL LINES.
Independen Plan 10 e
More i'm Kansas.
Now One Hundred Sixty Thou
sand Phones i'm State.

sand Phones i'm State.
| The Independent telephone men, in
session at the Throop hotel today, are
| looking forward with whetted appetite
and considerable anticipation to the
banquet tonight. Beside the elaborate
spread of viands there will be some
! juicy oratorical efforts to further en-
liven the evening. When Tom McNeal
attempts to tell what he knows about
| the relation between a volt and an
ampere, the telephone men will sit up
and take notice, and when Editor Mac
Lehman, who has always Iabored under
the impression that currents were
something to be used in the manufac-
ture of pies, attempts to speak on the
subject of High Frequency Currents"
nothing short of mob violence will do
justice to the sad occasion.
This is the programme, literary. musi-
cal and oratoricaI which has been
framed up. The association managers
kindly saved the speakers the trouble
of choosing their own subjects, as may
be readily seen from the following:
A A. GODDARD, POSTMASTER.
Peggy ...........................
...-....................... Ladies' Quartet
Miss Meta Legler. Mrs. T. R Paxton,
Open Circuit Transformers. John Dawson
II.lsstenlng cams: ....---.---'Wi " Mllis
1DIeTDdLlOna1 MATTERS. -. 6. w are
The Relation Between a Volt and an
High Frequency Currents. .............::
...-....-..............Fr Frank P. Mcclellan
Annie Laurie .............-........
.........................., Ladies' Quartet
But while John Dawson. Tom McNeal,
f. P. MacLennan, w. w. Mills and 9TH
ers are telling what they do not know
about telephone technicalities, the BAN
Quetters will be Illuminating over the
viands they have consumed, which will
H. cx@IJ 80
| What They'll Eat.
Oyster Cocktail
l. Celery Olives Pickles
| BoulIon
Fried Halibut Outlets Saratoga Chips
Fillet Beef Mushroom Sauce
\ Mashed Potatoes Peas in Cases
Asparagus Tips Tomato Salad
Ice Cream Assorted Cake
| Crackers Cheese
Coffee
More Long Distance Lines.
This meeting of Independent telephone
men is liable to make some radical
changes in the telephone maps of Kan
sas. 1t is rumored- that at least three
| long distance lines will be built this
summer as the result of conferences
held last night and. this morning, by
cooperation of companies which need
better toll lines. An effort is being
made to interest the larger independ-
| to parallel the principal Bell lines.
The meeting was opened last night at
| the hotel parlorS with an address of
welcome by Councilman G: E. Jordan.
on behalf of the city, which was an
swered by j. M. Doyle, of Belleville.
Reports of committees consumed the
rest of the evening, and the association
| adjourned until $3.50 this morning. Pres
| ident w. H. Nelson made a plea for
! financial and moral support.
| The morning programme consisted of
discussions of the telephone business in
it's different branches. W. A. Camp
| bell, of Wichita, spoke of the import
ance of keeping a close account of the
business and expenditures of tele-
phone company, and described an &C
| counting system he had invented for
the management of the big Wichita ex-
change.
G. H. Peake, of Sabetha, who is con-
struct1ng the long distance line along
the northern edge of the state, spoke
| briefly of the territory the new line
would cover, and the substantial man
ner in which the line was being con-
Structed.
on account of the absence of two of
pramnne, H. A White of Waverly, who
was placed on the programme for the
afternoon session, read paper on Ru-
raj Subscribers, and How they can Best
be served"
There are now 161, 900 Independents.
| Up to noon today, over 100 telephone
men had registered. and a number of
them will be in this afternoon to at
tend the banquet
| Those Who Are Here.
| The following is a list of those reg
istered:
w. A. Campbell, Wichita; J. A Zim-
| norman, Valley Falls; w. H. Nelson,
| Smith Center; J. M. Doyle, Belleville;
| A. B. Clark, Lawrence; F. L. Flint.
| Minneapolis; T. NJ. Dolan, Clifton; !;
Charles Morris. Ho1ton; E. e.
| Crockett, Kansas City; Buford Adams,
| Kansas City; J. G. Strong, Blue Rap
| ids; A B. Brokenicky, Blue Rapids;
| w P Hemphil1, Topeka; c. E. Quig-
| lev. Kansas City P. A. Wells, Kansas
| City; Samuel Tucker, Pleasanton; w.
r. Hind, Des Moines, Iowa; Herbert
Clark, Chicago; c. c. Raymond,
Greensburg; Frank w. Maekey, Kan
sas City; H. B. Hewett, Chilltcothe;
| John A. Stratton, Topeka; J. I. Elder
| Cunningham; Art s. Steele, Oberlin;
H. F. Baker, OVERLOOK, L. j. Flint
chicago; B. A. Bless, Kansas City; G.
7. Ruch, Haviland: c. H. Tuber Kan
sas City; r. c. Fields, Abilene; j. A
Valentine, Abilene; G. E. Belts. Atch-
ison: w. ]. Tanton, Chicago; E. Win
ernilIer, Kensington; J. c. Kelsey
Chicago: G. E. Blinn, Chicago; F. M
Pearl Hiawatha; A. ]. stevens
FIiawatha; r. r. Hinnan, Kansas CITY;
L. r. Foote Lincoln, Neb.; Harry Fer