Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — TELEPHONE RED TAPE. [ARTICLE]

TELEPHONE RED TAPE.

How They Catch on to Modern In- - ventions in Roumania. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “They have established a teiphone system in Roumania,” said Stuart Melville, an electrician, at the Lindell last night, “but I am afraid they will never make a success of - it, in fact I am sure they won’t if they keep the present law in force. I have just got a letter from a friend of mine who went out there to construct the line. What do you suppose they have done in the way of telephone legislation in that country? Why, they have made a law requiring a man who wants to telephone another to notify him first; and the man who is going to telephone and the fellow who is to be telephoned to have got to agree to be at a certain place at a certain time in order to do their talking. For instance: If I was going to telephone you about something to morrow I would send you word to-night for you to be at the Globe Democrat office at, say 1:30 o’clock to-morrow, as I wanted to speak to you over the telephone from the Lindell Hotel. Then if you were not there at the appointed time it would be a misdemeanor for me to call up the instrument unnecessarily, as the man I called for was not there, and, having been notified and not responding, it would be evidence that you did not care to talk with me. Isn't that an enlightened country for you?