Show Telegraph New York Press Pres Jn Jim my business a man has hiss strange stra ex cx I said the telegraph operator It was only yesterday e that I TI s stait nt this message to a n White Mountain hotel Hold room for self and an wife Ten days The answer r came back at once We Vo dont take dogs doga and the couple that wanted to togo togo togo go to the hotel were indignant Later the explanation came caine My Iy message tn sage it seems had hd been incorrectly transmitted as Hold room for tor or self and wife Ten dogs Two sportsmen one in Chicago and andone ono one in iii New York played a It game of bil billiards billiards by telegraph three years ago The rhe two tables were wore divided into small num imm numbered numbered squares and at the end of or each shot the location of the three balls bas would be telegraphed lo to the lie other town where they the were set up V The game lasted four days dS V and would have hae cost a mint of money mon only emily the players happened hap ned to be telegraph operators Telegrams l aie ate never punctuated This fact lost a Washington man last May Ia His wife was vas very ill lii and he lie wired to a Philadelphia Phila specialist to come on An hour later the time woman died diet and anti the bus hus I band ban gent another a wire Ires saving Ll InG Dont P ont I come como Too late ate V The message arrived V VV nt abandoned d door V Tho The Philadelphia a and shut shot l Into lato to Washington Ston on ona O ona 1 a special train Of course he be It lint hau d to br hr paid special train and tut a pu It wa was a case where an In omitted fly week eck of oC mK ink was the same sam aa as a lout pursue purse containing five bills V |