Show telephones we used to have the best beet fellow in oar car employ that I 1 ever knew declared the head bead of one of the biggest telephone exchanges in the country in fact be was too good for us js to be able to keeli kec him and now hed he 3 a promoter pio moter making barrels of money lie ile could place more inore telephones hunes than any other half dozen men in our em employ ploy and ill give you just one ona sample of his shrewdness there was wag a wealthy old frenchman with large interests inte reits that we want wanted ed as a patron after all the rest of our solicitors had called upon him we sent our best man he learned that the french man thought the telephony telephone a great invention and a great money saver but he be could not dot be made to understand der stand that they were adapted to any other language than english lie ile had bad to converso conver eo EC in french with many ollia business friends and employed emp loyes all the others had tried to convert him hut but oily slick as we had dubbed dabbed him took the other tack and humored the old gentle map he at once assured him that we had french receivers and tran transmitters Emitters a and nd immediately put up a temporary line lice t ti show that h he e was not misrepresenting goods when french was sent and received over the wire the result resul t delighted li eted the man of wealth and oily actually sold two sets of telephones for a dozen places where they could be made useful in the old mans business bu biness charging ra apiece more for the french than for the english it was six months before he discovered that he be had bad a superfluous lot of telephones on hand bond then he be lau laughed glied as hearte ly y Rs a anyone any one and tried to hire oily to go on the road detroit free ree press |