Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1910 — Telephone is Boon to King [ARTICLE]

Telephone is Boon to King

’trunk Line Given to George V. Without Delay, No Matter Who Must Walt—Obeys Rules. London.—What would not one give to have just a little of the privileges enjoyed by King George in the use of the telephone? King George no doubt thinks the telephone is the greatest boon under the sun. To him it must be a source of the greatest comfort and enjoyment, as much as to the ordinary Londoner it Is the most agonizing nerve wrecker he finds in the course of a day’s business.'. One does not like to say anything disrespectful about King George, but

at the same time the king may at times be the cause of profanity on the Part of a disappointed subject When the king requires to speak over a trunk line he has the right to claim priority of service over all who may be waiting to use the same line. To let you understand what this means, usually a person requiring to use a trunk line, unless he is very fortunate, has to wait at. least half an hour before other callers who have requisitioned the line have finished their business, for each caller is given the line in turn. While three minutes is the time allowed for a call, except when the king is using it, his majesty has the privilege of talking without any time limit. As a matter of fact, however, the king, who had occasion recently to use the trunk lines rather frequently rarely or never exceeds the time limit His majesty knows how a telephone should be used and is careful to observe rules laid down to expedite the traffic. His majesty speaks rather slowly and distinctly, but not loudly, so that his listener never has to ask him to repeat a Word. It is the experience at the trunk exchange that the royal calls are very quickly cleared.