Show SAL LAKE IS STRICTLY IN IT President Cannon And the New Standard II Telephone I BABY IS ALREADY NAMED I Mountain Standard Company I Capital 4000000 j jI jI I I Will Operate in Salt Lake Denver I I and Albuquerque Hello Central Will Cost S25 Per Year General CInrUyon In erdsted Preliminaries Preliminar-ies Will Soon Be Arranged AVH1 Be it Merry War Between thc New and the Old Corporations I Gigantic Trndertalilng hint Men of I Money Are Beliind It I Some days ago the dispatches announced an-nounced the fact that the Standard Telephone company had just been organized or-ganized in New York with a capital Tf 360000000 its avowed purpose being be-ing to wage a merry war on the Bell Telephone company Now comes the Chicago TimesHerald and declares that among the backers and incorporators incorpor-ators of this gigantic concern is President George Q Cannon while General James S Clarkson also cuts an important figure in the affairs of the corporation which has officially announced that it will put in systems all over the United States and furnish telephones at a uniform annual rental of 25 Already a move has been made to secure telephone competition here in Utah and throughout the west and the Mountai Standard Telephone cwnpany of Salt Lake city Denver and Albuquerque with a capital stock o4OOOOOO to operate in Utah Color Colo-r f Arizona and New Mexico will be peedily organized The matter of its organization has been detailed to Mr Cannon and that gentleman with his associates will soon have the necessary preliminaries disposed of It will be a great thins for Utah and The west in common with the entire country but it is said that the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company pea pie and the officials of the other oldtime companies doing business busi-ness with the Bell Telephone company I have already received an inkling of I the proposed plan of the Standard organizers or-ganizers and are preparing for the battle which will surely take place They are even now reducing their rentals Salt Lake will get cheaper telephones Already the Standard company has nine state branches fully organized and eleven more forming These twenty twen-ty concerns with the parent company will cover every state and territory in the union and also Canada and Mexico Mex-ico The Pacific Standard Telephone company with z capital of S5000000 will cover the territory made up of Idaho Wyoming Washington Montana Mon-tana and Oregon I The parent company which furnishes furnish-es the model for the organization o all of these branch concerns has a capital stock of 10000000 and its headquarters are at 6S Broad street NCw York Its bird of directors is made up of Thurlow Weed Barnes president of the company a capitalist and a grandson of Thurlow Weed so potent in New York politics a generation genera-tion ago John A Brill president of the J G Brill company car builders Philadelphia Carl F Baker of the hardware steel and iron house of H BaKer Co New York John W Can dler excongressman railroad president presi-dent and merchant Boston George Crocker San Francisco representing the great Crocker interests of California Califor-nia Senator John P Jones of Nevada Henry Merz president of the Heller manufacturers of col ZMerz company ors New York Allen T Nye the pro motor of the company Manning C Palmer president of the Syracuse National Na-tional bank and electric light company com-pany Syracuse N Y Felix Rakeman Jof p Bulch Rakeman Boston John E the Searles secretary and treasurer of American Sugar Refining company better known as the sugar trust New York Charles T Strauss of Charles T Strauss Brother importers of iace New York and St Gall Switzer ace of Louis Windmueller land and Windmueller Poelker one of the leaders of the reform element of the lc party In New YorK Democratic of General James S Clarkson is one the members of the directory of the tern Standard Telephone Northwestern Illinois company which will operate in nois Iowa and Wisconsin This com capital is 600 000 pnys or the general purposes of the great companies being launched and the men at their back the TimesHerald of Friday The saws finest combination of capital and political Influence ever gotten together to-gether has been organized to enter the telephone field and rout the Bell monopoly mo-nopoly by giving cheaper and it is claimed better telephones As was stated in the TimesHerald t yesterday the new enterprise is back > d Standard Oil 4 by the sugar trust the company the immensely wealthy Crocker Interests of California and the Pullman company interests It las also among the men who are m on the ground floor some of he shrewdest shrewd-est capitalists n every city in the unIon Parallel with Its line of capitalists are a line of poiiticinn < who ran among polhicians in the same faiJiloa that the int rsted capitalists do among moneyed men Among these are James S Clarcson of Iowa uhn W Chandler of Boston Colonel Con of Ohio exCongressman Cannon ger of Utah the virtual head < f the Mor mon curch Louis Windmue lcr of r 1 j New York Franklin Fairbanks ex governor of Vermont Leon Abbett of New Jersey General Felix Agnts Q of Charles A Pillsbury Baiitmore of Slln SpoUs and in Illinois W J Campbell who also represents the Standard Oil interests John S Run plls who also represents the Pullman interests and W W Tracy of Springfield Spring-field It Is this combination that is behind the Cosmopolitan Electric ordinance wntch played such an important part in the recent municipal election The entire country as far west as the Mississippi Missis-sippi river has been parceled out and placed in the hands of local companies each of which is organized along these double lines of capital and influence Tlhe aggregation of capital that Is Inc In-c volved is 360000000 The amount of political influence concentrated is scarcelY calculable It is safe to say it However that it Is enpugh to make I r 1Jp V J any desired friendly legislation a great deal easier to obtain than it otherwise would be nd to make hostile legislation legis-lation a great deal harder Allen T Nyes Devices TThe company is the Standard Telephone Tele-phone company of New York The electrical elec-trical devices to be used are those of I Allen T Nye who ten years ago made such a prolonged fight on the original patent covering the transmission of speech by means of a wire He was unsuccessful then but the expiration of that patent about a year ago gave him the benefit of what he tried to gain by litigation and that he has been successful within little more than a year in allaying such interests as he has succeeded in do ing and Interesting the capital that he has done and casting to windward such a strong political anchor as he has will be taken by many as pretty good evidence that his devices have merit and commercial utility The company proposes to put in telephones all over the country at a uniform price of S 25 a year and make what is now a luxury and a conven ience within the means of comparatively compara-tively few a necessity within the means of the great body of the public The devices are already in use in New York city and state and in New Eng land it is said and it is promised that 5000 of them will be in use in Chicago within the year Not the least remarkable feature about this gigantic combination is the secrecy with which operations have been conducted This publication will be the first intimation that the public outside of those directly Interested will have of the plans of the company It is even doubtful if the Bell company com-pany with all its immense interests threatened knows much if anything about what has been done by its rival in aggregated capital if not yet Its rival in the actual operation of tele phone lines An earnest of what the company can do with its combined capital and political influence is seen in the passage pas-sage of the Cosmopolitan ordinance against both popular sentiment and the powerful interest of the Chicago I Telephone company Perhaps popular sentiment will be modified if the Cosmopolitan Cos-mopolitan ordinance should result in telephones at onesixth of the price which is now paid It is very evident that the local cap italists who are interested in this great movement for cheaper telephone service are not yet ready to make known their plans or in fact to make any talk on the subject tout a careful inquiry yesterday revealed the fact that practically all of the members of The Utah Company with a large number num-ber of other capitalists and businessmen business-men added are in touch with the enterprise en-terprise and itis said to be assured of success For the three western systems sys-tems the sum of 10000000 is to be advanced by the gigantic capital back qf the immense project and tha first I open movement is not far away if those who are on the inside are not at I fault As might naturally be supposed sup-posed Colonel Isaac Trumbo is one of the prime cnovers in the enterprise He always does take a leading part in anything which will redound to the advantage or prosiperity of the future I state of Utah As before Stated none of the gentlemen who are connected with the undertaking were yesterday prepared to make any statement but it is anticipated that some movement will be noted within the next few weeks Wath its recently improved system the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company will be much better able to I cope with this threatened competition I than before and it is understood that the company is now at work I mending its fences at all probable weak points in order to be in a position po-sition to take care of its business when the aew company enters the lists |