Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — The Telephone in Spain. [ARTICLE]

The Telephone in Spain.

"Tho American managers of tho telephone have not given your people the full benoflt of their invention, ,J said Seraphlno Yglesia of Madrid. "Now, wo in Spain have a much better system than you have here, and we use it to a bettor advantage. Wo have a grand park there—tho Ilotlro. In it we have all the amusements—theaters, toboggan slides, carousals, bull fights, operas, everything. It Is of the opera that I want to speak particularly. If you will sit in the stalls close up to the stage you will see just In front of each footlight a little tin box. You will wonder what it is there for. Well, if you have a telephone at your house you can communicate with the Central Exchange and your telephone will be connected with one of those boxes on the stage of the opera house, and If the weather Is bad you can sit there at home and listen to every note and hear as plainly as though you were in the opera house. You don’t have to hold the receiver to your ear, OJb, no. The system in use there does away with that. Tho receiver and transmitter are combined in a little shelf of corrugated metal. You talk to It and the sound goes over the wire; you listen and the sound comes from it. Thus you may read your book and listen to the opera too. Isn’t it better than your system?’,’—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.