Show arm tuesday davy jan aj TAK SPEAKING AMERICA A german engineer amazed at conr telephone from tha frankfurter a prominent german joural jour nl we earn that the renowned engineer max M TOO weber a son of the amiable composer of the Frel ha brought a very favorable impression of tel ephiny from his recent tour through america where this erful intention a he aay has reached a perfection never dreamt of in europe the american according to mr weber hate recognized that the saving of hinr and labor increase in geometrical pro portion to the number of who are enabled to enter into free direct oral th achievement of I n public exceed angly valuable hah publio official told him W do no longer care at all about ake cloie vicinity of our offices for although they mayfie scattered all over the city we can talk from every room to every other ut as well ai if we were enclosed by the same four walla the principal development mr weber relate telephony haa reached in the medium towns of to inhabitant which are in a rapid couche of progress there it adems if one looka up to the iky in certain ets as if they were covered with wide meshed cobweb 10 many telephone wires cross one another from roof to roof how varied the ramification of the telephone service ii and bow great it domestic weber instances in an amusing tory in one of the principal pain cipal towns of northern new york he narrate I visited the family of a wealthy friend the lady of the houie wh was agreeably surprised received me most cordially but as soon as handshaking was over she reached for the telephone suspended over the back of her lounge and exclaimed I shall take charge of you we shall drive out ill show you the town you dine with us with a few carlies tt ho may become serviceable to you this afternoon we will put in our iteal yacht to the niagara to merrow well ride to the oil region the day after and later we will spend on our countryseat now ill call my husband on his office announce yur arrival arrange our plans then ill order our carriage which has been removed from the bouse sine telephone days invite the parties to dinner arrange with steward and engineer about yacht ride and supper then my husband shall order your train on the oil region road and finally ill have to talk about domestic affairs with our people in the country seat and when will all this be ato tended to I asked with astonish ant oh better look over those albums or take a walk through the garden I dont like to have wit nesses when I telephone it looks so ugly but then ill attend to everything replied the amiable lady but yet I remained and saw and beard with amazement how my hostess first communicated with her husband then the addresses were changed in the central bureau three or four families living at distances aggregating 28 miles were bidden to dinner and two answered immediately next the carriage was ordered and instruction given to the crew of the small steam yacht five miles away in lake erie and the bill of fare for the supper arranged then it was the turn of the country seat whose stewardess had to be summoned telephonically also from the dairy and at last the husband sent word that everything was arranged with the train after twenty or thirty minutes the lady put the from her ear and what a work now ill ee o my toilet and lt my cook do the telephoning excuse roe sir with that and graceful bow the deap pea iba far alie cook matronly woman came to manipulate tha wonderful instrument nd then there I heard the mot divertie if fied orders given for ibo taft diab fowl game fruit everything for the dinner aud all by telephone while the mettrew and the ervall erva nl had been aba biting order ter a dolivin of several square miles ia a german had at me nd computed what time sn writing of poleg drive the work would have which waa accomplished by woman baid and mouth in 30 and t arrived at a grand total of at aleut leut ia working hours divided among o and BO many people not to mention the many awkward and blunders which were avoided by thi prompt procesa sg with jeal ou regret I thought oj the graat in conveniences to which my country women are condemned in the cimpl matter of dinner arrangement and here dauner carriage ride pleasure acht trip railroad journey upper blay at the country teat all wa arranged from ono drawing room in forty minutes and with auca a people we flay clumsy want to |