Show A I I I THE arfat ferpas u nado by this dufal little piti laner the fifie american of september contains a lengthy report of the tranE transactions actions at the fou fourth rth convention ef of the tile national telephone association of the united aglione states tates which met at the hotel vendome boston sept fth amidst a large attendance had the gathering been of a political nature to extol tho tile virtues of republican politicians politician river and mid harbor bill patrons or of democratic partisans ll 11 s to cu eulogize tho the jeffersonian principles n or of greenback laOn monoma Otna to rave on erred irredeemable amable paper currency the great event would have been wired f far ar and wide and the tile party part y press E east ast and west would woul d have teemed with fulsome reports of the grandiloquent oratorical ef fusions and windbag wind bag resolutions lations lut ions As it was only a scientific gat k gathering bering a meeting of if men who labor earnestly but quietly persistently but arv privately abely for the advance of the intellectual ile crual progress rem and com commercial mercal welfare of mankind the ubiquitous scandal mongers bongers sensation and dirty rag pickers of the political party duct press wess associations failed to pay much attention to the affair and it was left to a scientific periodical far from the madding crowd to record the doings of the telephone devotees hon lion marshal br arshal jewell ex gov arnor of connecticut was waa chosen president of the association in which clithe the american bell oo 00 played placed andy and plays lays a prominent part mr gar gardiner iner G hubbard father in law of the inventor odthe of tho tele telephone hone prof proe graham bell in an a address y dress t viewed the history odthe distance under riu or far speaker whichever ever r way yon yell c choose hoose to interpret the greek term he traced the development of this grand little instrument ment from that dat day eight years ago when prof be beal I rising g from a piano was seated declared himself convinced that the sound of the human voice could be carried iu in tone waves upon electrical wires A momentous epoch in the she short rt triumphal career of the tile telephone was at the centennial i al E exhibition in philadelphia when the emperor of brazil placing the instrument to his ear started back exclaiming my aily god it speak sl A further important step was when the western union telegraph aph company became identified with the electric voice conveyor at the meeting some interesting statistics were pre presented anted proving the tile increasing popularity of the telephone exchange in the early adoption tie of iiii which by the way the leading cities of utah have bave manifested their enterprise and progress eiva spirit iril there were said to exist about COO exchanges only 81 kofl I which reported 30 subscribers of exchanges having more than 1000 subscribers the tile metropolitan telephone and telegraph co new york cit city yo I cornea comes first with 2873 C chicago o ha has I 2597 cincinnati 2056 providence 1906 san francisco 1294 boiton I 1186 detroit 1110 albany 1100 Buff buffalo ialo 1047 louisville 1024 baltimore 1017 it is inte interacting rating el to note tho curious ratio between the tile various cities I and their telephone exchange the must important business centers not appearing to have the lead very greatly oyer tho the less im important cities in this thi connection we may also be b permitted to point out ont that ogden and salt lake city the former with her suburbs evince evince an appreciation of the great facilities and advantages of alie far speaker not excelled if equalled equal led by any of the great marts odthe of the union whose wealth is counted by billions and arill trade by scores of millions |