Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — Baby Telephones Its Arrival. [ARTICLE]

Baby Telephones Its Arrival.

The telephone bell rang in the home of a New York multi-millionaire who, at home or abroad, keeps his finger on the pulse of the markets of the world. Half awake, and dimly conscious that it was long past midnight, he staggered to the phone. “Hello! Hello*’ he said. Over the wire came the plaintive wall of a new-born babe. “Gee!” he ejaculated; “It’s Jack's long-distance telephone and the baby has come! Say, mother; mother! Get up quick! You are a grandma!” “How do you know?” cried a woman's voice, excitedly. “Why, Jack's baby is telephoning frbin Chicago!” “Well, father! What do you think sdt your first grandson? Isn’t he a bowl* er?” said the man at the Chicago end of the wire. “Well, I should label him a ‘Shouting Methodist!’ Say, Jack, how old is he?” “Just ten minutes and he is announcing his arrival to his New York grandparents! He is lying on a pillow, and whenever he screams I put his mouth to the ’phone!” And this is the true story of how an up-to-date little man in Chicago telephoned his New York relatives when he was only ten minutes old.—Chicago Inter Ocean.