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Show FINE CHANCE FOR INVENTORS Urgent Demand for Telephone Booth Sliding Door That Will Really Slide. Inventors are requested by suffering New Yorkers to exercise their Ingenuity Ingenu-ity on a telephone booth sliding door that will really slide. Heading the petition pe-tition is the name of a woman who had a curious experience in a drug store booth. "There are two booths In that store side by side," she said. "They are about as big as match boxes and are open at the top so when there Is a lull in street noises the conversation in each can be heard in the other. One day when listening to a long and interesting in-teresting communication from the friend I had called up, I heard a man In the adjoining box ask for the number num-ber of our own telephone up town. Presently he said: "Can't you get them. Central?" Df course Central couldn't get us, for I learned afterward that not even the maid was home, bo he rang off and left the booth. "I was most anxious to detain him and learn his message. I insulted my friend for life by saying: "I can't listen lis-ten to any more now,' but might just as well have let her finish, for I couldn't get out of . that booth. I pulled pull-ed and tugged at the door, but It wouldn't budge. Finally a drug clerk let me out, but the man had got away by that time and I don't know to this j day who he was or what he wanted to tell us. Imagine having to go through Ufa with a mystery like that unsolved. The telephone company cannot equip their booths with movable doors too soon, I think." |