The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-02-12
SERVICE THAT DOES
NOT SERVE

NOI ofkNE
CORPUS CHRISTI ha, had mi.fnr
tunes ihrt vcrc NOT rs fault g.
ha, toda, misfortune, ihui are
welInleh mto.cruho m which are
merely from inc assumption that
ihe city will wi up niih bad seq,
yice
Probably ihc most striking e.'
nnpI of 'ucl ol reasonable SER
vice i> afforded hy thg Western
lnian Telegraph company Within
fcw months 10 ha, taken to
closing iu office 90 @ O'Clock 30
niahi. sstr Sundays wheu thD
hour d. O'Clock n "a curious
commentary upon fhc decision of
; aonpan, Which has monopoly
OF ttteroph qoFirc Boo tlr city to
calmly assume lhnf corpus Chris
81 IS hick town and thai wy
such public SEE Vice O. telegraph
.compony gives may as welt cease
at the hour the chickens have gone
So rnosi
This disregard of tho public is
tie more unreasonable 300 that
he Western Union has great
business Gus OF here through the
cotton season and a good business
an the time
II does not appear 20 Ice rccGg
nizcd that lack of telegraph ser
Vice IS about the blnckest eye that
may be given citv Examples of
the mumucr In which the city IS
Managed by this early closing OF
the wire office arr to be- had daily
Persons who are here as guests 40
the hotels get messages % they
are lucky enough 90 have doliv
ev 40 hours WHOM reply by
wire should be available They
find the telegraph office dark
They cannot do reasonable bust
ness They are disgustcd They
have right 90 De-
n should not bee forgotten that
ihe local office OF the Western
! nion IS local affair " u cnn-
not DO 81, share OF reasonable To-
eal service % should hc given 40
least q strong hint that other
means 0f communication may he
had Bad service ol the local wire
office is an invitation for The cs-
iablismneni of wireless oui of
Corpus Christi Most folks would
welcome wireless station here for
commercial service
Besides this failure 90 keep open
90 reasonable hours is the penalif.
ING of the public for the petty
Quarrels between the local West
en-, Union office and iis mcssoug
ei boys Thursday night tor in-
stance. The local office had an
important message. which came
prepaid Instead Of delivering
that message 10 tclephoned io ihr
po.m Who should receive il that
ihr message bad arrived bat lac
muN come and gel ii as ihe of
fite had no messengers The mui-
Der was important and the man
took q ear and retrieved his tcle-
gram The natural course would
have been io insist upon delivery
and u delivery was refused TO sue
im damage
Examples 0i failure 20 De able
to dispatch messages az proper
honfs aud of failure 20 deliver
messages ofe of daily ocurvencc IL
is high time that the city use ITS
almost effort 90 force ihe local
wire office 90 give reasonable
service There are legal means
Whirh ulghi Doc employed with
effect and may Dee. ii necessary.
More desirable IS that che manage
ment OF the office establish SER
vice that IS necessary and such "a,
was afforded up 20 short time
ago.
II may be suggested that this
IS an attack upon the Western
Union office here. That Is iusl
what il Is. II is The elimination
Of suffering IN silence Tor o long
time BY insufficient service OF an
agency which has franchise "a
give seryioo, but docs not give II