Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1893-07-02 | Page 2 | Trouble from an Abbreviation

I Trouble from au Abbreviation ANew York firm has a house in Victoria Vic-toria street London Their English representative rep-resentative who was paying a visit to Paris wrote a letter to the London branch and addressed it Messrs So I andSo Vic street London The next day two very important and seriouslook i ing l gentlemen visited the London office of the New York firm and showing one of the clerks the letter asked him if he knew by whom it was written Yes replied l the clerk by oar manager Whats the matter with it 1 Your manager has grossly insulted her majesty the queen and must apologize to the postmastergeneral for having done so Why how has he insulted the queen 1 exclaimed the astonished clerk He addressed this letter to Vie street instead of Victoria street and Victoria is her majestys name But it is a common com-mon thing for us Americans to shorten names of streets addressing envelopes For instancQj we often write B way for Broadway Wedontcare what you do in the United States You cant do it here and we must insist upon a written apology and assurance that her majestys name shall not be mangled again by your manager The apology and assurance were given andso the incident ended happily hap-pily without bloodshed