Show the wonderful telephone the editorial in the tile salt lake tribune under the above caption increases tile interest in the description to THE STANDARD of the telephone exhibit a at t the worlds fair A gentleman just returned tells of it as one of the most interesting and wonderful things lie saw on his trip the exhibit is in the electricity building alst opposite the tile main entrance on the plaza it is enclosed in a temple encircled by an open court which in turn tum ie is surrounded by peri styles of ionic columns with domed corner rooms the tile whole effect being most attractive inside of the temple in addition to the I 1 historical alls display of telephones include I 1 ing ng those exhibited at the centennial in 1876 they bein being the tile I 1 first rut telephones publicly exhibited exhibited is a switchboard to which are connected all the telephones in use at the fair grounds ample space is afforded the curious for witnessing the operation of the board and attendants ts are kept busy giving an explanation of its mysteries all other apparatus belon belonging ng to the tile operation of atele a telephone elc exchange ange is is conveniently arranged for the tile inspection of the public and the hourly lectures given lya by a very interesting talker aker on oil t the e construction and operation of the apparatus always find a crowd of interested listeners and indicates a desire of the tele phone company to educate the public in all the intricacies of the tile telephone business one of the tile wonders of the day is that a person can stand or if lie desires to be more comfortable can sit in the tile fairgrounds fair grounds at chicado and talk by long distance telephone to his wito wife in yew new york provided lie lias has left her behind the style of telephone used on the tile ion long distance line is the tile same as its that used in ili the local tele telephone ahone com public officio in ogden for talking n over outside lines and is talked into in an ordinary tone of voice if anything lov cr er than the tile u usual ual conversational tone and the voice is carried the long distance as distinctly as if it were comin coming I 1 from orn the tile next room such an illustration jon of the elimination of distance by telephone causes us to wonder how soon wo we will be talking to new york from ogden by telephone as readily and easily as wo we now talk to salt lake or any oilier other utah town or oven even to london what a marvelous thing it would be to bo be able to call cal I 1 up your correspondent in london and and greet him with good morning n ing what ahat is the tile price of silver in in far london n d 0 n this its morning andyes it looks as though many of us will have that opportunity before wo we are ready to put up the tile shutters for tile lant last time or why may wo we not expect even our children to stand at home and enquire bv by telephone from australia the state of the market for wool or from the tile holy land the price of land in ili jerusalem or to talk to any or all nations even to the uttermost ends of the earth what a factor the telephone one could become in establishing an international language langu agel I 1 tha term long distance telephone comes from the use of lol long lines line scon connecting different towns the instrument itself is made mad e by tie tle bell telephone company a and nd while not the same as that used by the tile public generally most people are familiar with it from having used it in the local telephone offices over their long di distance siance lines alich much interest attaches atta clies to the present condition of the tile patents on oil the telephone and what the public is to expect phone for 0 r the tile future there is not much in 1 jot foi mation on tile subject other than thant the li patent on the electrical transmission of the tile voice has bas expired but the bell kelepi telephone I 1 one is covered by so many other patents that the tile field is not open by any means nor does it seem likely to bo be for a long time to come one patent granted as late as 1891 seems to cover as vital a spot for the commercially successful transmission of the voice as the original patent tent itself and inventors have thus far pk been en unable to discover a practical substitute other tel telephones ephon have been beet and are being made but without exception those that have proved commercially practicable have be been on held as infringement infringements on ono no or tile other of the tile bell BO patents it is to bo be doubted that the public would be better off if no patents on the telephone lione existed at all as the tile nature of the business is in itself a monopoly T there bere iere could not well be two te telephone exchanges belonging to different com companies p 1 in tile same town as there ther ba being no communication between thet the two it would require a merchant to subscribe tor for both in ili order to 1 be able to reach all of hii lii cust customers omeri i in general business this would necessarily result in conf confusion upion and dissatisfaction and alie cost for two would naturally be greater than it is for one at the tile present time the tile thing that the public wants in this or any other city a good deal more than tile they want another telephone company I 1 is tr the e best possible service for the least money at which it can be furnished |