Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press it Bruaw for people 1728 its just As Well this collection int plugged in j this Veteran a Side Crank for calling the by v Era Dickinson Ever wish you had More than one Telephone at your Home its an academic question at the Home of Neil a Clcil of Jam Cassini he has Are you ready 148 telephones and is anxious for he collects not Only telephones but also Tele phonic he has colourful Candle stick or Dagwood old Telephone an ancient a punch a Telephone protector the phone was once regarded As a death dealing a tiny Gas stove once used to melt Lead to Sheet the outside of cables and a Linesman it All started when Mclellan was 12 years a Friend from gave him an old Oak Semans Box Model Telephone that had been badly damaged by flood and Mclellant craze for collecting Tele phones just kept on some of his pieces have been found in Pristine Condi Tion others have been laboriously and faithfully re his re creative instinct is illustrated by what he did Ona recent trip he and his parents took to new Zea there he purchased 12 old telephones out of that pieced together four Complete one of his finds in new zealand was a Western elec tric Telephone in White an american he Hast been Able to figure out yet How one Lone Ameri can Telephone managed to get to new coun try stocked to the earlobes with British made Back in James Assini Mclellant upstairs living quarters have a neat arrangement of phones hanging on Walls and sitting on All lovingly Dis the winding stairs to the upper level Are Bright with his Varico lored collection of insulators he has 123 of them but he ruefully admits he has a Long Way to go to Complete this part of his he says 800 Insu Lator models have been Man these were usually packed 400 to a barrel for shipment and Cost seven cents insulators go for so cents right up to depending on con color and one interesting Telephone Model which comes from Denmark was brought from overseas after the second world a fascinating Black instrument with speaker and earpiece cradled on a tall main it brings to mind glamorous Marlene Dietrich like spies wrapped in Satin and sheer As for the idea that a Tele phone was a death dealing that was a notion fostered to promote a get Rich Quick scheme dreamed up by a group of scoundrels Early this these unsavoury charac ters advertised in newspapers that the breath of Tele phone users condensed on the diaphragm of a Tele phones forming an incubator for they sold the Telephone disinfect a hollow Cylinder of Glass that fitted into the pro truding mouthpiece of the phones of the packed into the disinfect or was Gauze soaked in thus you could Telephone a Friend without the risk of becoming infected with loathsome and incur Able claimed the they listed tuberculosis and even More loathsome one of these swindlers items now reposes in Mclell lans other phones in the collection Are recognizable mainly because of movies of the old wild most familiar is the wooden Box Wall pictured forever As the instrument on which the pure a Snow but with mighty cleavage schoo marm sounds the alarm to rout the forces of it is surprising to learn although the Telephone is an integral part of modern life and a lifeline to sanity when Cabin fever strikes Manitoban the Manitoba Telephone system says there is a marked increase in Calls when Winter clutches the Prairies in february and the first Tel Ephone in Winnipeg was in stalled in the notto Distant past this was Only a year after Alex Ander Graham Bell had patented the a Horace who had introduced the Telep graph to Winnipeg in had the first two telephones installed in the phones were attached to the wires that connected the Telegraph office with his and he had a phone at either Mclellan gets his Tele phones from Many people know he collects phones and ring him up when a find has been you never know your Mclellan one year he found a sizable piece of a 20s candlestick phone known also As the bums Lead or Elliot Ness phone floating in the water at this went into the restoration of another phone which required just that particular Mclellan has been told he has the Best private collection of its kind in but antique Telephone aficionados though not numer Ous Are to be found throughout the a Fine collection exists in Ottawa but its not As Large As in Vancou ver in the toques and Art Magazine re ported assorted antique telephones created curious diversions from the More mundane items in an antique auction held at loves in so the Chase for old phones is obviously attracting More and More is it an expensive Hobby Bachelor Mcclellan is reluctant to put a Price tag on his Many factors influence he like All col it depends on How desperately a person wants a Given the monetary value to a collector is second to the thrill of the As for All objects of prices Are going an advertisement in the Winnipeg free press a Short time ago read two rare 1912 and 1918 Wall telephones of Oak with virtually last of their each or Best excellent after All these years of Mclellan is toying with the idea of find ing a permanent Home for his preferably out in the country a Telephone in his Hes forever adding shelves for his Tele but Many Are still stored in he needs More hed like to share his unique collection with the after though some of his phones Are from other coun the history of Early Manitoba rings out loud and Clear from the wealth of items in this fascinating col photos by Dave Johnson Neil Mclellan collects old telephones and the bits and pieces that made them if you 9ve got then flaunt it by Victor Wilson new ouse news service Washington lady Lucy widow of the ninth lord Byron and wife of sir Robert Houston known in Britain As the robber was looking out a porthole of the family yacht one a crewman was emptying trash from another and she noticed a piece of Cotton Wool sail she recognized the Wool As the wrapping in which she ear Lier had and then misplaced Worth of in a rare moment of self lady Lucy giggled and said How stupid of Alan Kenkins relates this tale in the Rich Rich the Story of the big spenders you can do Only three Basic things with says Money student Jen spend keep and increase or give it he rightly chose the spenders for Jenkins defines a big spender a someone who spends unwisely but enjoys it the who works for his Money As a Magazine staff novelist and television Proba Bly has collected for this work the greatest Assem Blage of ingenious Wastrel this Side of a Nee Dowells Here Are some of his More memorable specimens the third Marquis of Hertford had a place in Wales he never a dinner for 12 was prepared daily in Case he and a party showed munitions King Alfred Krupp built a mansion on a Bare Hill and transplanted a whole Forest of full grown Trees which budded the next Marshall Field Iii of Chicago department store family was told by his psychiatrist hed enjoy his wealth More spending it for social he started new Yorks left Wing and 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