Beaten by ’Phone Clerks.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 9, 26 August 1908, Page 60

Beaten by ’Phone Clerks.

FRENCH COUNT IS GLAD THEY WERE NOT GIRLS. Count Drouet d'Aubigny had an unpleasant adventure recently, owing to a complaint he made about the telephone service, which iu Paris is indescribably bad. He had failed to get communication, and, receiving an impudent reply over the Wire from a clerk, called at the offices to complain. He was.very rudely received, but worse followed when he explained that he had come to pull the ears of the operator who had insulted him. At these words about twenty telephone clerks set on him. smacked his face, pulled his hair, trampled his hat under foot, and. running him down stairs, kicked him out into the street. The Count went to the police station and brought a charge against the clerks. He stated next day that he congratulated himself on the fact that the incident had happened to him in the evening when men clerks were on duty. “I dare not imagine what my fate would have been,” he said, “if I had beein attacked by twenty telephone girls.’’ J< J*