The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-25

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erals telephone service. The urgent ma
ture Of the case was explained at the
Philadelphia telephone office with an
earnest plea for speed. After long in
terval the report came back from New
York telephone office that there was no
such person as DR.. Beebe among the
New York telephone subscribers. DR.. Sill
as P. Beebe, the only DR.. Beebe In the
telephone book, has been telephone sub
scriber for ten years His number, plain
ly printed in the last telephone directory
is Plaza 9576. Dr. Teller insisted that DIR.
Beebe did have telephone. The tele-
phone office insisted that he did not have
one, and informed DR.. Teller that he, Tel
Ter, had the name wrong. This deadlock
continued from Friday morning until
along in the afternoon of Saturday, when
at last the telephone communication
which should have taken fifteen or twen-
ty minutes was established after an in
terval of twenty-four hours.
In the meantime things had been NOV
ing at breakneck speed in the Political
master Generals telegraphic service.
The "rush" telegram which DR.. Teller
had sent at 10 o'clock on Thursday
morning reached DR.. Beebe at $40 on
Friday afternoon. Owing to the life
and-death nature of the message, the
Politicalmaster General undoubtedly had
put on extra speed. The telegram was
rushed through to its New York address
in only little over thirty hours. AS
quickly as he could prepare the serum DR..
Beebe personally directed the parcel con-
tanning it, marked it urgent, paid the
full postage rates, put on a special deliv-
cry stamp, and with his own hands mail
ed it at the Grand Central postoffice in
New York.
That was at 9 o'clock on Friday night.
Eighteen hours afterwards, when tele-
phone connection was at last established,
DR.. Beebe was amazed to learn that his
parcel had not been delivered in Phila-
delphia. He at once prepared more SER
UNI, and put it into the hands OF a mes
senger with instructions to get to Phila-
delphia at all speed. The messenger reach
ed the Philadelphia address two hours
ahead of the special delivery mail pack
age, marked urgent" which arrived
twenty-four hours after DR.. Beebe had
himself mailed it in New York post
office.
But even the messenger was too late.
The woman died an hour before he got
there with the life saving serum.
Now, all things considered, we are dis
posed to regard this as the Politicalmas-
ter Generals supreme achievement. He
has been longer in delivering mail mat
ter. He has been far longer in deliver
ing night kilograms by mail. We do not
know that there is anything surprising
in 24-hour time allowance in establish
ing a telephone connection between New
York and Philadelphia. But here we have
in one instance, and that instance case
of life and death, a demonstration of CO.
ordinated, interlocking ineptitude, of
sheer helpless incapacity of administra-
ton, which we venture to believe not ev-
en- the Burlesonian record can match.
And if it beats Burleson it beats the
world
There was time when we had the
best telephone and telegraph service in
the world. Now me can challenge the en-
tire world on having unqualifiedly the
worst service in either or both branches.
We defiantly take our stand on this one
Burleson masterpiece, and invite the
whole telephone and telegraph world to
bring on their administrative imbeciles
and down us if they can.-The Weekly.
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