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Show TKI.m'HONE SKUVICK. The cities of Europe furnish facilities for cheap and comfortable living and rapid transit far in advance of those of the same class in this country. Here in Salt Lake, for instance, where the telephone tele-phone service is inefficient the company proposes to raise the yearly charge from $00 to SO, while in Berlinthe capital of Germany, the yearly charge is less than 30. The telephone, together with the telegraph system thore is controled by the government and they act in concert, so that on the reception of a telegraphic message at the central ofTiee, if the person per-son to whom it is sent has a telephone, he receives it orally, the written message being sent to his house or office by mail. The telephones in Berlin are said to be far superior to those used here by the Bell Telephone company. |