Show CONTROL MAY STAY IN UTAH Determined Effort to Save Independent In Independent Independent dependent Phone From Bell Monopoly I SITUATION IS REVIEWED CONFIDENT NT STATEMENT SENT OUT FROM CLEVELAND I am today toda in receipt of word from Elmer B D Jones In Rochester X N Y In which he says sa that everything is pro progressing progressing gressing favorably and that he has haj no reason to doubt that his hl efforts will bo boo crowned with success The above statement was made by Charles G VickI local manager mana er of the Utah Independent Telephone company com pan to The Herald with regard to the negotiations now non being carried curried on by Mr Jones in Rochester N Y 1 in an er of of fort Cort to prevent the control of the local Independent company compan from passing pasing Into the hands of the American Telegraph Telephone company compan the owners of the Bell Deli system The war now going on for the control of the Independent telephone systems of or the country count is attracting a great deal of attention end and the outcome at present cannot be regarded other than as a mat matter m matter t ter ler Of t doubt In this tills connection the In International International Independent Telephone asso association association has issued the following bulletin from Its Us executive offices in Cleveland Cleeland 0 O under date of Feb 3 3 The Bulletin To the Independent Telephone Interests of the tho United States and Canada The press of the country has paid more than usual attention to the proposed sale of the United States Stites Stat Independent Tele Telephone Telephone Telephone phone company of Rochester N K Y and its It subsidiaries companies com panics comprising the Telephone Manufacturing turing LurIng company compan the Independent tele telephone telephone telephone phone companies operating exchanges at Rochester Syracuse Utica Jamestown Home and some smaller places In New NewYork NewYork York state and the control of the Utah Independent Telephone system A meeting of representatives of most of the larger la er Independent telephone inter interests Interests ests eats of the country was held at Cleve Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land on Feb 18 IS under the auspices of the Independent Telephone as us association association for the purpose of or formulating a proposition having in view the acquisition acquisition a tion of the securities and property of the thc States Independent Telephone nc company of Rochester X Y 1 The president International asso association elatIon was delegated to request Mr Ir H lL P Brewster chairman of the advisory advisor com corn committee in charge of the affairs of the thet thee I t e S I Telephone T company compan to furnish statements showing the financial condi condition condition tion of the properties and to afford facilities for verifying same in or order order der ler that a It definite proposition should be submitted statements had been previously refused representatives of the th Independent nt Interests although freely furnished to the Bell In reply to his request reque t the president was informed that Mr Brewster was absent from Rochester and that no proposition of any an kind could be entertained until March 1 on which date the option of tho the present Present negotiators the Bell company compan wilt will expire Dissension in Ranks It is well understood that certain Indi Individuals IndiViduals connected with Ith the U C S I Telo Tele Telephone phone company compan actuated by motives of personal interest are ar favoring the trans transfer transfer fer of the said securities and properties to the Bell BeU company com pan in spite of the fact that among the rank and file rue of the bond and stockholders there are areman many man who are anxious to save sae the prop properties properties from the clutches of ol the Bell mo mc monopoly monopoly The latter class of Investors whose property rights are Jeopardized by bythe b bt t toe the le proposed deal with the Bell company have long viewed the mismanagement of the U S I Telephone company com pan with seri serious i erl eri erious ous alarm and would at anT any stage at ot r the proceedings S have ha been glad to support a aplan aplan aplan plan having in view the preservation prese of the company as an It organization organization had they the been given ghen an opportune opportunity Hv ity to record their sentiments the lh It Is also an fact that people of the various towns In which the theU ther ther r U S I operates Exchanges were almost I unanimous in imploring the help of inde independents to save the situation and relieve them of the danger of being again sub flub subjected of to the cupidity and arrogance the Bell monopoly That tile present ex cx executive executive management of oC the U S 3 I Tele Telo Telephone Telephone phone company com pan has haa ha been tho the subject of to all merited censure is a fact fad known telephone men and an the shrinkage In the has value alue of the compans securities been matter of general comment and a a hardship to honest Investors In view of these facts it is not strange that the these e emen do not care to entertain any legitimate legitimate legitimate men proposition coming from an Inde Independent Independent mate pendent source which would mean that the affairs of the company com pan as administer administered thorough in investigation Investigation Investigation ed od by them would be given a Previous Bell Efforts Considered from a purely business point of view It seems Incomprehensible that Bell company compan should seek sek I k to secure the control of the U S 5 I exchanges in the its bitter experiences 1 In the state face of 0 of Michigan In Toledo Tol do 0 O South Bend Ind md Portland nd Ore and in many man other Independent companies are where places place flourishing in spite of the tho millions spent the monopoly in vain aln efforts to throttle throttle b by competition It should be borne in InI tle tIe that the people have steadfastly re refused refused I mind fused to submit to the proposition of the owning and operating the only monopoly system from which they could I obtain telephone service and Independent competition recognized more and more being tion Is the only practical meth public as the I by securing anything like UkI adequate ed fOtI telephone of or facilities with equitable le rates treatment of patrons patron und anti proper United It should be understood unde tood that the of Independent Telephone company com pan i States Rochester has no connection whatever the United States Telephone com corn with Long of Ohio the United States j j any Distance Distant T T 1 company com pan of California t T T company of Pennsyl i Jh or other companies of similar I i vania vanla will be f None one of these those companies of Affected by the proposed absorption the United States Independent Telephone of Rochester X N l Y and there I company compan is no foundation whatever what ver for the claim i that this absorption would carry caro caroI made the Kinlock Tele Telephone It the control of I with ith i company Of St I Louis Mo the i phone Consolidated Frontier or 1 Y the Inde Jude Indel companies of or Buffalo K N I I Al AI Albany Albany system with headquarters head at I pendent Tele Tel TelI Telephone Indianapolis l bany ham N Y or the Dis DisI Distance phone company and the New Long i I tance company com pan of Indianapolis Ind md I I I I r No Sale ale to Bell Interests The United States Independent Tele Telephone Telephone company com pan of or Rochester holds only 55 s sper phone Ser cent nt of the securities J of the Indianapolis olis per company and ad arrangements have hao at al ad been completed C ted to keep keel the eon con control on trot r ready of this tIlls organization strictly Independent I dent The t I S I 1 Tec none company has no holdings of any sort Jn Jo any an other I be beyond beyond or manufacturing company operating In the specifically mentioned yond those e paragraph and none of the corn opening punIeR Just Enumerated arc are considering t S or wilt consider c any sale sap of or their proper properties propertIes ties Ues to tP tF the tho Ben Boil Should the Bell BeU com corn compan with the assistance of the advisory pan of the l r t S J 1 Telephone com corn compan succeed In securing c of th the pan operating pany companies connected with that organization It would m mean n a loss of only 23 telephones which wh ch Is ia about of 1 per er cent of f the just Jun independent telephones tele iu In h the United states 4 Transfer transfer to the B Bell ll monopoly would undoubtedly a hardship on In the pat patrons t rons moms of the in the thc transaction but bu only until C ys temA could be installed and it fl W 18 a safe saCe to t mis ume by br b that time the UIe B s Investment hT In those e e lOie become a i total toss loss as it 11 K M as at es It must not be loet lost sight of tL I during the Ute 4 I IQ Q I Past year the Independent telephone In Interests have been successful in gaining a foothold in itt more mOIe than 60 00 per cent cOny of the cities s and villages that had not previous previously ly I enjoyed Independent telephone service the most important of these towns tons being Bo 5 ton Mass Chicago Ill Denver Colo Cob Omaha Neb and Milwaukee Vis Wis During the same Mme period a new cent manufacturing plait has las been com coin completed ompIe pIe ted and a number of the other Inde mOo Independent Independent pendent manufacturers have Increased their facilities for takIng care of or the growth of the Independent companies so sa a that the proposed sale of the Stromberg Strom rg Carlson manufacturing plant if consummated mated mare will not embarrass any am of the In hr Independent Independent dependent operating o rating companies s In securing ing lug ther apparatus sInce Inre no difficulty will be experienced by b the other manu mann manufacturers manufacturers in making leo extensions to existing plants and furnishing addi additional additional equipment as required rfd The gentlemen who attendee the Cleve Clec Cleveland Cleveland land conference e represented investments amounting to over and are prepared prepa d to make Inako any an j reasonable offer to keep the I r S J 1 prop properties properties properties from passing to the Bell monopoly j although they the feel fecI that this sale would not materially material Injure the Independent I companies They realize that the Inde Independent Independent pendent movement Is strong because every ever Independent exchange is a public protest against monopolistic aggression and every ever dollar paid In Interest t on In Jn Independent Independent dependent securities se goes back to the thO i people So long as this state or of affairs prevails pre there is no danger that the In Independent Independent Independent dependent movement will be injured by bythe b the defection of any an one company or or organization 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