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Show DECLARES BOYS BEAT TELEPHONES The pon exprs at lees tbsVO o oast oa-st at h the coat, gives better aarvlea aa a means of communication between tha public schools of the otty than tfee pree-nt pree-nt telepbona ayatom. according to O. H. Chrleteneen, euBMtrtntaaMlant of puoiie Instruction In-struction Because the) telephone oora-panr oora-panr refused to make a eatlefeotorv rata all teleplHnee ware raaaavad from the public echoota about two month ago. The t-ost of the talepbot.ee wae approalmately fall per month, while the ooet of the mesaenger senrloe eo far haa been about $20 per month. AoooMlng? to ftopertwtandent Cbnstan-sen, Cbnstan-sen, the latter aotuafl y saves tl me and worry In addition to providing certal n boys wttb a alight Inoome that helps them through school, when an order Is to be oomoiunloated to the various school principal two or three meaeangens are railed from the .regular service ottloaa downtown. A carbon copy of the mao-sage mao-sage Is dispatched to a school nearby and upon Its receipt the principal of the school relays It to the next nearest school by one of the school hoy a who keepe hta bicycle bi-cycle at hand for that purpose And eo the meeeage goes, relayed from one school to another until It has reached every school In the ayetem. Thirty to forty mlnutee la the average time required to deliver the rnaeaage to all schools, which Superintendent Crirteteneen aaya la leee time than It would take for him to rail each school by telephone |