Show there is one nuisance in i this and other large cities 0 nuisance N telephone nuisance which has become well fligl should be abated intolerable and something 0 N should be done to end it I 1 by mcgoorty st loul louis mo I 1 am ain refer referring rim to the telephone clem m ho ll 11 the person who will hold long on extended conversations on a party line thus thu 1 preventing others who really have occasion to use the line from doing doin so I 1 had bad an experience of this sort a day or so ago ago C I 1 desired to communicate muni cate with my wife on a matter of considerable moment I 1 tried to get b 0 t my home boine phone fr for over twenty live five minutes I 1 appealed to tale 64 central manager 0 of the telephone exchange I 1 kept rin ringing 13 cing ray my number n at intervals of a minute or two all without avail I 1 do not know the people who are on our line it is a two story line but I 1 do know that they are arc addicted to long conversations which fudging from such scraps as I 1 hear when I 1 pick up uj our receiver at homo home in an attempt to get the line are of such absorbing moment as the discussion dision tuss ion of a new waist the latest scandal in their r set et the charms of tbell male friends and matters of similar import I 1 believe there is some rule of the company to prevent this hogging 0 of party lines but tin this s rule appears more honored in the breach than in the observance it is high time that something was done to abate the nuisance |