Show i BELL COMPANY WINs THE FIGHT Will Be No Reduction in Tete Tele Telephone phone Rates 4 CITIZENS COMMITTEE QUITS FUTURE WORK LEFT TO THE IN INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUAL 4 The organized oPPosition to the rateS charged b by the Rocky Mountain Bell Tale Tele phone phon company came to a practical end last Jast night when the tho committee appoint appointed I ed six weeks a ago o to confer with the managers of oC that committeD and andor or of the tha Ind company compan or of which Senator Simon Bamberger was was waH discharged at a slimly attended meat Ing o of telephone users In the assembly room of the Commercial club In a written report of oC the committee It ft was a stated that the Bell IJ company had agreed to fo reduce Its unlimited service business phone rate from 90 0 to 12 a year ear and In consideration of subscribers signing a contract ontra t and Would make the rate 18 a year on ona ona a contract It was also stated that the Independent company compan had greed agreed to reduce the charge for unlimited Service residence telephones from to toa 2 a month The said the committee had de decided decided to make no recommendation for the reason that a recommendation would not be binding on the business men or of the city Jt If made The Tho discussion showed that the members ot of the committee with one exception were or the opinion that concerted action looking to a general substitution of Inde Independent pendent for Bell phones unless the Bell company m met t the rate charged by the Independent for Cor unlimited service business phones 48 a Y year ar was not pos poe possible sible and that any action alonG this line must mURt be made b hr individual telephone It was said that Pre President G George orle Y Wallace had assured the committee that the telephone books hued b the Rocky Mountain Ben Bell company would I be free or of advertising matter of all de arId and kinds B By eliminating ad advertisements from the telephone director ice and b by no longer putting the name I o of some or of the subscribers in bold face facet I t type pe the com company pan would relinquish at an I annual revenue of from its e Oto A communication front a citizen cUben say inG that a petition bearing full fully ij names I and asking the Utah Light Railway company to put better cars carR on its it Jordan ordan river line lIn would be pr to tc Manager R S Campbell In a few days a s was road It was decided to return it ii to the writer with a request that It bt be brought to the attention of the Commer Commercial cial club |