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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, May 01, 1916, NOON EDITION, Image 10

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KEEPING IRH.AND "COOL"
IS HIS JOB
Augustine Birrell
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Train your boys to ride a horse like
an Indian and to shoot like the sharp
shooters of Kentucky and Tennessee
at the battle of Chalmette in 1815.
Champ Clark. But, remarks Puck,
it is so difficult to do those things
in a modern flat. The downstairs
tenants would be almost certain to
complain.
SUNNY SPRINGS HOT STUFF
BEFORE UTIUTirs r.fW!n
Pres. Sunny of Chicago Telephone
Co. before state utilities commission
inquiry admitted writing a letter
winch disclosed the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Co. working a
graft, collecting a rake-off, squeezing
money from small companies, with
no volue in return. Sunny was mak
ing a kick and trying to stop the A.
T. & T. rake-off because the city
council might get onto the game.
Later Sunny to Thayer, Sept 12,
1912, stated his attention had been
called to letter May 29, 1912, by chief
engineer re-testing transmitters and
receivers. Associated companies
were ilnstructed "to have exchanges,
as far as possible, put instruments -in
condition, so that they can be re
placed on the premises of new sub
scribers without being handled at all
by the Western Electric Co." At
which Sunny kicks:
"Both the Wisconsin Telephone
Co., before the commission, and the
Chicago Telephone Co. before the
city council committee on gas, oil and
electric light, have had the greatest
difficulty in defending the 4y2 per
cent payment to the A. T. & T. for
supplying and maintaining telephones
and transmiters. I am sure that you
will.appreciate that to carry out in
structions will make it still more diffi
cult to defend payment of 4y2 per
cent and that it would be readily and
confidently alleged that the license
company was paying the A. T. & T. to
have work done, and was at the same
time doing it themselves."
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TODAY'S BELLRINGER
"Well, John, inasmuch as your
grandmother died four times last
year, I don't see how you'll manage
to get to any of the ball games this
season."
"But, sir," said Johnny quietly,
"haven't I told you that grandpa has
married again, though it was much
against the wishes of the family?"
Philadelphia Bulletin.

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