Life — December 29, 1892 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE * A BIT OF CORRESPONDENCE, THE AMERICAN DISTRICT TELEGRAPH CO, New York, December 15th, 1892. T have respectfully to advise you that a rental charge of so cents per month has been fixed by the officers of this Company, which will apply to the messenger call box at the above address on and after January 1st, 180. A bill for this rental will be rendered and payable monthly at the close of each month G. V. B. FROST, Superintendent. Orrick or LIFE, 28 West Twenty-third Street, New York City. TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Pik AMERICAN District GENTLEMEN: We have your favor of December 15th. We cheerfully accede to your proposition to pay fifty cents a month for the rental of a call box which sometimes brings 4 messenger to our oflice when we pull it and sometimes doesn’t, if you will monthly credit our account with the following sums : For waste of time spent in waiting for your boys who do not come when the box is pulled, $100 00 For waste of time spent in waiting for such of your boys as do come anywhere from five minutes to two hours after the box is pulled, For excessive rates paid because your boy ‘arry no tariff books, eg 8 § & For extortion caused by the fact that you do not compel your boys to carry change, . : For laceration to our feelings caused by the im- pertinence and profanity of some of the young ruftians you keep in your employ. For exasperation caused by the stupidity of some of the young idiots you keep in your employ. For delays and other annoyances arising from the fact that you seem incompetent to provide a prompt and intelligent service for the public, Total, Of course there are other things we could include to make the monthly balance in our favor larger, but we do not care to be hard on a struggling monopoly like yours. Besides, we are on the edge of a cold winter, and you may need the thirty or forty thousand dollars a month you will glean from dditional tax on the people of New York, to buy cigar- d flash literature for your messengers Trusting your dividends will rapidly increase, we are, Yours gratefully. Lire ONES (necting Brown in dry goods store): Hello, Brown, J how are you? What are you doing now—got a steady job? Brown: I guess I have. I'm waiting for my change. HE. janitor of our printing office forgot to close the scuttle the night before the storm, and the next morn- ing there wasn’t a dry I in the house. ANNIVERSARY OF THE WEEK. DELEGATES FROM SOUTH CAROLI PRESIDENT. NOT RECEIVED BY THE, comicbooks.com