1915-12-21-New York Tribune-3500 Mile Blush on Phone

3,500-Mile Blush on 'Phone

New York Tribune, 21 December 1915, pg 3

Girl Operators Hear Transatlantic Gossip About Mormonism

Blushing telephone operators in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake and San Francisco listened in last night to a humorous quip wafted from New York.

"Hello, Salt Lake." called H. W. Casler, at the Hotel Manhattan, where the New York Academy of Sciences held its annual dinner.

"Hello, Mr. Casler," came the answer. "This is Amsley, Salt Lake City."

"Amsley, are you a Mormon?"

"An emphatic one, sir."

"How many wives have you?"

"I don't know. I haven't taken my inventory this week."

The blushing telephone girls listened in on other matters also. They heard a humorous interpretation of the word paleontologist by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History. They learned about the Jersey odors. They became acquainted with the roar of the Atlantic Ocean. Lastly, they learned that Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, of Columbia University, had been unanimously elected president of the academy.