form 10.

the atlantic and pacific telegraph company.

in connection with the direct united states cable,

and the dominion telegraph company of canada.

thomas t. eckert, president. albert b. chandler, secretary.

the rules of this company require that all messages received for transmission shall be written on the message blanks of this company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.

d. homer bates, gen. sup’t, atlantic division, new york.

chas. a. tinker, gen. sup’t, capital div’n, chicago.

r. p. hammond, gen. manager, pacific div’n, san francisco.

number.	sent by	time.	received by	check.
1	NF	1255	M	144 Pd 293

dated, Elmira NY 3 rec’d at 5th Ave

to A Daly care S Fiske 5th Ave J Aug 3 187 .

Copy telegram which I have sent [Parsole] instead of blowing water seize your brazier and blow a cloud of ashes the men after sprawling and butting into each other as already played will have their eyes full of ashes and in their blind fury will proceed to snatch each other by the throat a natural thing for such ruffians to do thereupon you smiling down upon them a moment may sweetly say me gotti gagment me no can no waitee or words to that effect and be sliding out as the curtain strikes the floor Please try this tonight and telegraph me the result the present ending would be full of points and a fine success in San Francisco where it would be understood, but we must manage to improve on it here be sure and try the above suggestion tonight unless you think of something stronger1

S L Clemens